I recently shared that my former Director used to count the “ums” when folks would present and let them know after the meeting. My new boss said “ya that sounds like an HR violation”. I told her that once I tried to email HR about my concerns and she... — read more 

What happened, did everyone in the sinkhole sign NDAs?

In legal and tax management? Is this true?

https://fortune.com/2023/06/26/forced-return-to-office-is-the-definition-of-insanity-remote-hybrid-work-careers-gleb-tsipursky/

The Sales Comp process and calculations have been wrong the last 2 years, and many give up challenging the amount of comp paid due to the lengthly time consuming internal processes and the fear of losing their jobs. What can be done

Anyone have background information on the casetext acquisition?

Who is of impression that TR does not care about your own development within the company? Do you feel like TR is trying to ignore your expertise by giving you a better opportunities or trying to use your knowledge (means using you) to pass it over... — read more 

The company will push you until you break. The company wants to get as much out of you as possible. You need to push back. This can be done directly by just telling your manager or whomever is asking for the work “no”. It took me a while to learn... — read more 

Are there numbers of people that have left? Feels like a revolving door, especially around sales right now. Why is leadership not addressing this?

In my sales career, I have never seen Executives more desperate and weak. The sales pipeline has never been this bad, and the shortcomings of the Leadership Team are more evident than ever. How long can these id--ts without product knowledge keep... — read more 

We had someone let go on May 31st (the day before the spinoff of Elite from TR). Presented to the team as “performance” related. But timing is very suspect so wanted to see if any other groups were affected.

I want out. I also want to be paid to leave because I've earned it after years of mistreatment by this company. There is no guarantee that I'll find my name on the next layoff list, but I would like to at least improve my chances, if at all possible... — read more 

They expect unrealistically too much from us.

I didn't realize how bad the work environment was until I was no longer in it. I didn't realize how toxic things were until I read up on the traits of a bad workplace and matched up what was happening at work with the warning traits listed. There was... — read more 

Unless something happens in the next few days, I guess the talk of a May round was not true. I don't know if I'm happy about it or disappointed. I'm currently half-scared of getting laid off but also half-hopeful that I will be cut and that I'll get... — read more 

The atmosphere here has become very bad. In fact, I don't think it's ever been worse. On the other hand, I'm so overwhelmed with work that I hardly have time to dedicate myself to looking for a new job as much as I would like. You?

...but the expensive US/UK employees still need to be be fired.

AA just announced all hotel cubes for everyone. The germs. The disorder. Making things bad to worse. Any hope? What’s the big plan?

Am I the only one who is unable to find any good opportunities? I keep searching daily but I'm mostly coming up empty. When I do find something I like and go through the entire very lengthy process, I end up finding that their offer is ridiculously... — read more 

In the email from leadership to tax support: "Objective: Be a Future Ready Organization Key Result: Increase our footprint in our Global Centers" >We've abruptly let-go of talent, we have no specific plan, eventually everything will be offshored... — read more 

Well this townhall so far is a lot less exciting since they silenced people from feeling comfortable asking questions. leadership doesn’t want to face the hot seat.

...time for another round of layoffs?

IBM is going to pause hiring for jobs that can be done by AI. Could impact 7800 of their workforce. You bet your bottom dollar that TR is looking to do the same So how long before they do... — read more 

I felt exactly like a lot of you that are still there. The hardest part was pulling the trigger on a new path. Financially, it was 35k+ more that what I was getting at TR. I could not believe that we were soo underpaid and valued. It’s never too... — read more 

I really loved my job here and that's why I delayed leaving, thinking that some improvement must happen here eventually. However, for almost four years I have watched the company go a downward spiral and the expected improvement is not... — read more 

Don't believe the false narrative that jobs don't exist. That's just not true. Spend 5 minutes on any recruiting site and you'll see there are a LOT of people hiring right now. It took me all of 2 weeks to find a new job with better pay, benefits... — read more 

Here's a guide to ensure retention and renewal: Customers can’t decipher their invoices, so they don’t know what they’re canceling when they cancel. People are afraid of losing content or software and maybe a good price, so they just auto renew... — read more 

Is it happening? When?

To anyone still at TR, especially those posting to and checking this forum regularly, please update your resume and start networking. The culture is toxic, the leaders don’t value you, and there is A LOT more money and job satisfaction elsewhere. We... — read more 

Also it needs to deal with these problems in the right way, because now instead of really analyzing issues and trying to fix them, our leadership allows these problems to become bigger while they deal with some minor matters. Just my 2 cents.

For BUs that haven’t been going in twice a week - how does this change impact you? By June 1 all locations will have ICs come twice a week, and managers three times a week.

Management is now suffering for the cuts they made

whether AG comes back? TBH not witnessed how shes contribute other firing everyone. Also responding with a question when you ask her a valid question. I mean why are you asking me? and go find out and come back and tell me is not coaching.

I’ve seen the OKR around APi sales. Who is even building APIs? What is the purpose of having this?

The only thing more stressful than being overwhelmed is when your work becomes so slow that you literally have nothing to do. I don't want to lose my job, but I'm very worried. What do the rest of you do in a situation like this?

Got an email from Charlie today saying TR values accessibility and everyone in product has to do accessibility training so we build accessibility into our products. Meanwhile, they took away our budget for accessibility fixes. Cool.

I thought things were bad 10 years ago but its obvious things are failing miserably now. Institutional knowledge is out the door and reaking havoc on those who are left to support it. Problems range from Customer unable to access products to random... — read more 

The design org work has slowed down due to lack of organization between design and product partners. Additional work we could help with is held up because other teams don’t have the time or care enough to meet to discuss details. Anyone else notice... — read more