https://x.com/GuyDealership/status/1803858729877553293 7:35pm EST.
Worrying about fallout
If the cost of this disaster turns out to be high (and it will be), I hope that will not affect our jobs.
CDK hit by ANOTHER issue, and down AGAIN
The hack came back: https://x.com/GuyDealership/status/1803744828158587242
CDK hit with massive breach
They were forced to shut down everything as a precaution due to a breach: https://x.com/GuyDealership/status/1803421101713715290
Going Public
Anybody know who the buyer is that will be taking CDK public?
New total BS Restrictive Covenants policy
3 year non-compete, company owns any work you develop outside the company, and supposedly even applies if they terminate you And they're doing it because "we give you a lot, so you should be grateful to sign" if you don't sign, supposedly you won't... — read more
Company Car
They are now getting rid of most of the staff that had company cars
Unvested 401k
Used to be in CDK Global last year and laid off . Still see unvested amount in my 401k account .Any idea what will happen to it.
February layoffs
There have been some rumors about layoffs in February, do we know anything more about that?
Left CDK and life is better
The grass, in this case, is definitely greener on the outside.
wage theft lawsuits are happening???
someone send me money they probably stole from everyone
Genpact Long-Term Plan
There are a number of older messages referencing Genpact. As many may now be aware there was a second wave planned impacting more senior level employees, there’s a third wave, and so on. It’s a total of a 5 year plan with continuously lower cost each... — read more
And now asbury
I see they are partnering with takion
Layoffs before bonus?
BM has been kind of quiet on the layoff front. Does he like to do layoffs just before bonus time so they don’t have to payout?
CDK about to lose Lithia this year, or next?
"Now that Pendragon shareholders have approved Lithia's $484 million acquisition of the U.K. auto retailer, Lithia will gain a stake in Pendragon's Pinewood DMS, which would be spun off into a standalone company. Lithia and Pinewood plan to form a... — read more
Final day for COBRA?
Greetings! Could anyone inform me about when we must decide on COBRA and when our benefits lapse?
DMS sold
Rev8 and Drive to be sold to Pinewood. All UK support and sales staff leaving by the end of the year.
Lay offs again
All Keyloop sales teams are the latest to go. Our Account Manager has just informed us.
CDK IS An Anchor! Brookfield Stock Down
Shares down by 25% since May: https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/BROOKFIELD-BUSINESS-CORPO-134320157/news/Brookfield-Business-Partners-Reports-Renewed-Normal-Course-Issuer-Bids-for-Units-Exchangeable-Share-44620798/
How did we miss this? CDK Now Doing Layoffs... In India!
https://layoffstracker.com/cdk-global-lays-off-230-employees/ Money quote: "CDK Global, The Chicago-based company has undergone a round of layoffs on Wednesday, July 27 – Letting go of 230 employees ~ 3% of its overall workforce. Layoffstracker... — read more
CDK Global loses 2 court decisions as antitrust lawsuit advances
Industry story: https://www.autonews.com/retail-technology/cdk-loses-2-key-court-decisions-dms-antitrust-lawsuit-advances No paywall version: https://dealershipclassdmssettlement.com/ Deets: A federal judge will allow the class-action lawsuit... — read more
All they know are cuts
Does our leadership even care to try to grow the company anymore or are they just managing the decline?
More lay offs and more lies! Salty is done!!
Once again leadership lied to everyone’s face saying they was done with fit and focused crud. They eliminated most employees working on salty, which I may add was bought for millions a few year ago. It is clear this CEO has no more motive than to... — read more
CDK Buys Full Ownership Of Sinking Ship CVR
deets: https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/cdk-global-acquires-full-ownership-in-computerized-vehicle-registration-cvr/ CVR is almost as old as DMS, and runs on some really ancient tech. The only thing keeping it afloat is the government contracts... — read more
CDK Sues Five Former Employees For Working At Competitor Tekion
deets without paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.com%2Fradar%2Fcard%2Fcdk-global-llc-v-tekion-corp-et-al-49166925-0%2F New Suit - Trade Secrets CDK Global, a provider of technology to support auto dealerships, filed a trade... — read more
CDK Sued For Violating Telephone Consumer Protection Act
deets without the paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.com%2Fradar%2Fcard%2Flewis-v-cdk-global-llc-49234714-0%2F "CDK Global, a provider of technology to support auto dealerships, was hit with a telemarketing class action Thursday... — read more
CDK had become an EMBARRASSMENT to its clients
CDK can no long hold a stable meeting to show its software. Teams are over worked and by the time anyone gets anywhere the CEO fired and lays off everyone. Management then has the ba--s to hold meetings and expect people to tell them that they are... — read more
Why do you allow that?
Lots of people complain about being overloaded. I am genuinely interested, why do you allow yourself to be put in that position? Of course they will overwhelm you with work when they see that you are putting your head in the sand. Why is it so hard... — read more
CDKs New Strategy.. It’s not us it’s YOU!
I’m getting tired of having my concern about lost talent bushed off onto my team! We are overloaded, burnt out, and to the point that we make mistakes due to a complete lack of direction and aimless layoffs. Every time this is mentions it’s... — read more
Restructuring?
Heard there is another round of restructuring. Any ideas on what is going on?
New grad roles
Is CDK planning to hire new grads or extend return offers to summer 22 interns?
$1000 to stay...
Customer Care is offering cash bonuses if you stay through the end of the year. Things must be bad internally. They might be hoping people won't see the problem with this. Aug/Sept etc rolls around and suddenly people in Customer Care are getting... — read more
Leadership straight up told employees to F off last meeting.
Feedback is no longer welcome at this company and it’s being ran into the ground. I have just heard the “if you don’t like it leave” bullsh-t response. Please update your resume and review this cr-p company. Everyone who works here is worth more... — read more
Derek Skillings - " If you don't like how the company is being run then leave"
Wow. You know after the Q1 review meeting last week I just took the rest of the day off to work on my resume and good news! I already have an offer at $10,000 more than I am making now! So thanks Derek for that tone deaf presentation where you made... — read more
Maybe if we had a better product
layoffs wouldn't have to happen? Maybe if we worked on fixing that issue instead of laying off talent and letting them go to our competition we would be able to NOT have to have layoffs so often? You know, getting to the bottom of the actual issue... — read more
More layoffs
This week 7 close colleagues of mine were laid off, all of them are engineers. I can only imagine how many were affected company wide. I used to think this was a great company to work for, but it's evolved into a toxic mess. Some other colleagues... — read more
Please help spread the word to new Hires!
Regardless of what they say they are hiring and are scarring the cr-p out of all the new peole as they see their friends who was just hired let go. This CEO says he cares about its employees but lies as we are just a number. Moral is getting so low... — read more
CEO is DESTORYING the Company!
Many dev managers and product team to go! This company is pure sludge garbage and it’s CEO is toxic I will be leaving immediate today with no notice. This CEO has ki-led the company and should be ashamed! Anyone who took the GenPack devil deal... — read more