#allhandsmeeting

Just curious how many people are asking hard questions which don't get answered. I know I keep posting things, but since they are difficult, they aren't answered even if no other questions are out there and there is time to answer them.

We all know that NetApp gatekeeps questions, I'm just wondering how much.

Similarly with Survey's everything is always in the 70's 80's but looking through the comments shows a vastly different picture.

No agenda
No meeting details
Only a direct meeting on teams
Thursday this week
Meeting duration 55mins

Is this a lay off discussion or a business update ?

Does anyone know ?

“Hi losers I want you to return to the office (I won’t be going in because that’s for wage jockies like you), also work even harder (I won’t be paying you more lol). Let me explain to you what AI is (even though I have no experience in it)”

global engineering and operations all hands tomorrow

Wonder what we can expect to hear

just had an all hands. VP announced that all leaders now must RTO 4 days/wk. hasn't trickled down to ICs yet but we all know it's a matter of time. and if you have been remote and don't live anywhere near an office? tough luck, I guess that means you can no longer serve your job requirements and will be let go.

this makes no sense because it's not like our entire team will be in the same office anyway even if we went full RTO. we'll all just be in different offices across the country.

Anything good come out? Unable to attend..

Does anyone in UHC have a town hall all employee meeting?

Did everyone get the meeting to discuss the state of the business on June 4th

Just watched the “Highlights” of the convention. Same old bs blah blah blah as every convention. Nothing will change in any significant way. I swear these are the same taking points I heard 30+ years ago 🫩

Heard Santa Rosa will be closed - 2 year timeline, but they are going to try to shut everything down within a year. Many teams at the site completely laid off. Waiting to see what happens. Grapevine news is that there will be an onsite all-hands tomorrow morning with VP coming onsite.

Can somebody share what happened at the all-hands?

Wondering if there are any updates?

3 jokers - KC, KP and DP - held a 30 min listening session and the way some questions were handled makes it look like they do not have any creds to be in that place. Especially KC's response to why the merit increase multiplier was low this year. Hilarious.

No shade to the other CEO, but I really enjoy Rick’s meetings. Full of great confident and I love how he takes all the questions on without having to reach out to his team. He is prepared and knows his stuff. It is a lot of info too… he must have a photogenic mind to retain all that! I can hardly remember what I ate for lunch yesterday.

The “first of many” associate all-hands left a bad taste in my mouth, for more reasons than I can fully articulate. The shift to the Harbor Point studio was the first jarring departure from the cozy, informal town halls we had grown used to before this latest regime change. The broadcast felt more like a morning news segment than a company conversation - cold, staged, and impersonal. One thing was abundantly clear: the C-suite is not part of “us.” They operate separately, and we’re meant to feel that distance.

What followed were prewritten speeches, read from teleprompters, filled with buzzwords but lacking substance. The central message seemed to be that TRP is poised to capitalize on the next economic opportunity - but what that opportunity actually is remains unclear. And apparently, we’re not meant to ask. If the goal was to model an “AI-first” approach by delivering generated, impersonal messaging, then mission accomplished.

The most disheartening realization, however, was the unmistakable confirmation that the legacy TRP “people-first” culture is gone. I’ve watched this erosion over the past decade, but never has leadership been so transparent in its lack of consideration for employees and clients alike.

We sat through an hour of “new strategy” with barely any discussion about improving outcomes for clients or associates. The AI-focused approach, poorly thought through, centers on doing the same work with fewer people, relying on efficiency gains that feel more aspirational than realistic. Questions raised in Meeting Pulse about costs, risks, and whether our existing infrastructure can even support this strategy were noticeably ignored.

Most striking, though, were the repeated references to our “thriving culture.” The disconnect was hard to miss. The culture is speaking loudly - through Meeting Pulse, through forums like The Layoff - and the message is clear: employees are struggling. We’re dealing with internal friction, outdated technology, and a lack of focus after years of layoffs and reorganizations. Incentives to perform have eroded.

Compensation cycles have been consistently disappointing, with market conditions and outflows cited as justification, even as executive compensation continues to rise. Investments are being funneled into a new headquarters and high-profile marketing partnerships, while associates are quietly laid off and replaced with offshore labor. This isn’t “doing more with less” it’s being asked to do less, with less, and somehow maintain the same standards of quality.

At this point, our ability to deliver meaningful work is being undermined, and the prevailing message from leadership seems to be that we should feel fortunate just to be employed.

Today’s all-hands felt disingenuous and, at times, insulting. But more importantly, it made one thing clear: what leadership values is not aligned with the people doing the work. The culture is speaking, but it stands in direct opposition to the narrative coming from the TRP ivory tower.

reminds me Scully saying "can we be serious now?"

guys talks for 15 Minutes , call for experts .... TS... Alfonso .....

what a joke

I watched both the earnings call and the CEO's all hands and the message from both was pretty positive. Nothing like the message he conveyed right before the big layoff back in November. I'm thinking things look good until at least November.

Are these all hands just for him to ramble? He hasn't said anything important

Since not enough of you volunteered to ensure that we can continue to receive SLT and EC level bonuses we are gong to let go the volunteers that we determine necessary and e have a separate list that we will be letting people go from. We will be reducing the total headcount by 15%

Don’t worry though we are seeing improved margins and orders coming in form customers. Are marketing efforts are starting to seeped up and take off and the future is bright for those whom are remaining

Wonder what brilliance will be announced.

Our group had an all-hands meeting recently where we spent 45 minutes witnessing managers patting themselves on the back and 5 minutes of dodging questions about backfilling roles, future layoffs or severance. So yeah, super useful and effective. I'm still trying to figure out what was the point.

Does everyone else have a mandatory housecalls town hall tomorrow?

All hands on May 20. What will we learn?

What the heck was that?

A kickoff neatly three months into the year?

It’s hard to take a company seriously that preaches productivity when they waste a half-hour showing slides of updated organizational charts since the big layoff.

It was the same old tired, “more communication”, “career development”, and “employee recognition” promises that never happen. Oh wow, cheap junk from the Canon Spotlight catalog site, just what everyone wants! Career development = more time to watch cr-ppy courses on Canon Learning, seriously? The material on that site is absolute garbage. More communication = monthly mass town hall meetings that nobody understands what is being discussed.

It looked like the HR assigned a job for the department heads to have the All Hands QA to address concerns, etc. . Layer by layer they scheduled the calls, but the answers were already given early, no additional information and updates.

Another 30 minutes of my life wasted. Blah Blah Blah AI Blah Blah Blah. Stop wasting our time!

Do not waste employees time if you have nothing new to share!
Heard the same ideas again with AI in every sentence in Nancy’s org All Hands.
Did not dare to answer most liked questions on the slido.. trying to paint rosy picture when in reality, nothing is rosy.

I didn’t catch the date, though he said it. Did anyone else notice that part? He said something like “we’ll have a better idea of the next stages”

Guys… those rumors everyone’s been whispering about? They’re actually happening. Tomorrow there’s an emergency all-hands at 10 UK time where they’re dropping the news on how the reorg is smashing EMEA. Brace yourselves.

I heard this was a sign for layoffs. I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I hope it's me this time

400+ group call today beginning consultancy process in UK. Psychopathic exec on the call getting giddy about the future and innovations etc.

She basically came on saying no questions at the end of this All PCS team call. They are getting eaten alive and are trying to avoid questions now.

Best exec team to turn us into next Sun Microsystems

Does anyone have any details on this? There's a formal meeting about it tomorrow evidently.

Can anyone confirm this rumor?

There is now a PTG all-hands meeting sent out today for 8:35AM EST on 2/24.

I have a bad gut feeling about this. Too many layoff announcement red flags (meeting time, date).

What did we just witness?

This company isn't even capable of running an all hands

Does Brian think we're stupid?

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