Anyone else get an email with that subject line? Came in after business hours from ‘HR Services’. Meeting request for tomorrow morning. My attendance is required. Pretty sure I’m about to get paroled!

A few weeks ago, Avaya announced internally that Tier 3 engineers will be insourced out of India and all engineers from Innovatia would have their contract end June 30th. Today, Innovatia SDMs were also notified their contracts would end. The end... — read more 

Is Konftel bankrupt as well? How many employees are left at Konftel?

Well Avaya friends it’s taken a round trip of 10,000 miles for me to accept that Avaya isn’t and won’t be the “Destination Place To Work“ and really don’t know how many more times I needed to hear that phrase but luckily I had my partner with me to... — read more 

SEC Justice Department Civil Lawsuits This is way from over List Includes Entire Board of Directors during any wrongdoing All Officers (C Suite Shah/Cherico/McGrath/Spears/Masarek) Special Attention to Vogel/Shah and others who... — read more 

This comment from Post ID: @2uvj+1lL4uSlv Rings True: "*The Reorganization Plan was approved. The Bankruptcy clock begins. Confused why so many are taking a victory lap as if we have emerged from bankruptcy this week? Please tell me you all... — read more 

What countries have layoffs planned for the next few weeks?

Alan Masarek August 2022 "Avaya, “[s]imply did not have the time to go through another bankruptcy – this was not 2017 – and the product cycle and competitive landscape was different, and that the disruption would destroy the company.”

I'm tired of all the positive spin that has been happening over the last 6 months from our new management. First, No Bankruptcy & Avaya is financially secure, Then Avaya will be stronger and better positioned post Chapter 11, and now after... — read more 

Avaya missed the UC and CCaaS opportunity years ago. Two Chapter 11’s in a few short years make a turnaround impossible. The company has what trust it had remaining. I expect Avaya to break apart into pieces and get auctioned off. @aza+1lJLjpXp... — read more 

Is it too late to reverse the negative impact on Avaya caused by previous and current management? This is a legitimate concern for those of us who plan to stay here for a while (unless we're laid off, of course). The effects of poor leadership and... — read more 

To begin the 🧵 --- We have a General Counsel (now ex GC but still C-Suite) who never did any proper 'lawyering', and a selfie 🤳 obsessed personal brand wanna be who is pretending to know lawyering. The layers of ridiculousness in Avaya land never... — read more 

Sometimes it can be frustrating to work for a mismanaged company and it's easy to think that the grass must be greener on the other side. But I would caution against making any rash decisions. Oftentimes, people who leave a company end up regretting... — read more 

Is Avaya in bankruptcy? How does company justify $1M spend in March during bankruptcy? Perhaps, an organization trying to become a destination place to work would use that money for professional severance packages for people with 10-40 years of... — read more 

*I spent about ten years in the Avaya ecosystem and when we joined it the first thing we noticed is that Avaya promoted bottom feeding. The large national resellers were awarded for going after the existing Avaya base of the smaller partners... — read more 

The fat lady finished her song some time ago, the lights are up and curtain closed. So why are you still sat awkwardly in your seat? (Disclaimer: I was laid off some while back and have since joined a company that I am enjoying working for - should... — read more 

⚖️ Did you Accept the Firm Assigned? ⚖️ Did you seek another Class Action Filing? ⚖️ Did you secure your own legal representation? Also, has anyone been able to verify just how much of Avaya 401k is impacted based on the fund mix? 🙏 share... — read more 

I'd like to see if anybody is going to use even a single positive word.

{ 60s Batman 🦇 music 🎶 playing ,,} He Thanks JIM CHIRICO in his departure statement. He was "hand picked" by Chirico to be moved into marketing b/c sales engineering/technologists don't allow the 'promise everything even if it's not client... — read more 

I can't believe he left.

I wanted to thank all vigilant employees on here who have warned us of the current situation we find ourselves in. I appreciate you! I also would like your advice... It is obvious that Apollo will sell parts of Avaya after BK is concluded. If my... — read more 

Like any one of these “industry experts” really has any idea. “Avaya customers aren’t going to leave Avaya. They would have done that at the last bankruptcy”. So decline in revenue is just down to reducing prices? https://youtu.be/DSgQNhko7BE — read more 

Do you feel appreciated? How did you celebrate this glorious day of appreciation?

Heard Jabra buying Konftel portfolio. What’s the play there with the very old technology sitting on Konftel shelves that’s already OEM’d out the wazzoo.

Major new head count reductions appear on the way. Managers talking about rating team and who's not performing. They only need to pay minimum so want to cut headcount when in bankruptcy. First burn shareholders now employees... Destination employer... — read more 

Which product is going to get our enterprise customers to buy from us? (Please no vaporware - real offerings). I don’t feel CCaaS has the right feature set yet for enterprise level, oceana is a nightmare, so what is there?

Hazim let go on Friday..

How about STFU! #personalbranding #themoreyouknow

"Regarding Chirico, he leaves behind a stronger company than the one he took over. Although his last quarter as the company chief is punctuated with a pre-announcement of a big earnings miss, he did do many good things for Avaya. As I mentioned... — read more 

Great messaging we are only in C11 for 60 days and we will exit with very little debt... Who knew it would be so easy. We still have the best products and services....Cloud - We have what we want from Ring Central and why buy of them and not... — read more 

Let's review what was not said. The truth always lies in what is NOT stated/avoided. FACT 1 Announcement tagged Morristown, NJ. CEO hosted "Analyst" Conference from NYC. Be prepared for AVYA to negotiate a tax benefit to ***move offical HQ... — read more 

Due to current financial difficulties Avaya will transform into a food retailer. Marketing have prepared collateral to support this and would remind all sales persons this was always the plan; they will now sell monthly subscriptions of : Corn Cream... — read more 

I think Alantown hasn’t considered the 6th point of the transformation, morale! After coming in and making a lot of statements like, “I don’t see bankruptcy”, “we have plenty of liquidity”, “I don’t see us being delisted”, many employees got excited... — read more 

Remember this was all just a BS rumor by the 'shorters' The board of directors have $500m they can use at any time Avaya has $3b in reoccurring revenue Avaya has grown significantly, it's just the transition to cloud that skews the earnings... — read more 

Avaya files bankruptcy, draws $780M in new financing https://seekingalpha.com/news/3935861-avaya-files-bankruptcy-draws-780m-in-new-financing

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities... — read more 

I have never worked in a company with more arrogant leadership. Their work results are far from from satisfactory so why so much arrogance? I hope they don't think they will look more competent if they have an arrogant approach to everything...

The fact remains, Avaya missed the cloud opportunity years ago. It doesn’t have the technology to compete, its market capitalization shrinks year after year. It’s over and investors and former employees want something back. Let’s bury this dead dog... — read more