#communication

Whoever wrote it thought they were really doing something.

So was that strange long message to us:
genuine a wake up call or super long reminder that "winter is coming.." and now its going to be "cold"?

What’s really frustrating, and honestly a little disturbing, is how many of our leaders have started acting like politicians. They ignore anything negative, spin reality, and only focus on whatever sounds good in a town hall or email. It’s insulting to our intelligence and completely out of touch with what’s actually happening on the front lines, where the real work gets done.

Until leadership stops pretending everything is fine and starts listening to the people doing the work, nothing will change. Just more talk, less trust, and a widening gap between the top and the rest of us.

Outsource Scammer: “I have a sale for you, they want everything.”

Me: “Great, thank you.”

Customer: “Hi, the previous representative told me I would receive $2,000 in credit and one year of free service.”

There is NOTHING honest about them.

Take a sip every time you hear:

• We've got more work to do

• We gotta make the hard decisions

• Xerox is BACK. We are here!

• The Street is loving us/The Street is excited

• I will answer that later

I might not have liked all of Dan’s message but at least it was spoken plainly and honestly. What is really annoying and a little disturbing is that a lot of our leaders now seem to operate like politicians. They ignore anything negative or challenging and only look to talk about the positives. This is totally insulting to employees intelligence and emphasises the gulf between senior leaders with what is happening on the front line

What did Bob say? I only caught the end of his comments, but they didn't sound good.

New Chevron slang and acronyms are coming out that are good.

Its truly the change that we need and the things we need to be saying as a company to collaborate and work more efficiently. So here they are:

Going forward if you need to take a number 2 its called taking a MW.

Take a number 1 is a MN.

Start using these to bring us together!

Nothing else matters

Email went out today telling us to go in on mondays for Friday bc Tuesday thru Thursday are the busiest days. Yeah a--holes you’re cramming us all in and making people show up into less space.

A lot of group chapter leads, platform leads are up for significant role shake up.

This won't be without impacts to associates at level 4,5,6.

We are looking at complete restructuring of middler tier managers which includes delivery leads, platform leads, chapter leads and group chapter leads.

There's a chatter of no more squad model, lot of squad leads, group squad lead roles are up for a shake up as well

While the consensus is "no impacts to associates", we all know that's a lie.

Some will be communicated the decision middle of November, giving associates 2 months to find new role.

Others would have until end of Q1 2026 to find new role.

Leaders are afraid to communicate, afraid to get in the news, afraid of baby-napoleon-pulte, afraid to have ideas. The only word left in their vocabulary is efficiency. They think they are being political savvy tracking people’s calendars, emails, badging. I am not blaming them. Just feeling sad for them. What a culture:(

Does anyone have any insight to what the email Pam sent out to the Americas and Danbury groups is trying to convey?

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Riffs afoot. Ditch the human element, instead let AI write Nike comms. MG wasted no time.

New Paramount Skydance Senior Management (DE/JS) made a big stink of saying that they want to be one and done. The next thing we know this has now turned into another round of 1,000 layoffs. Maybe the next cycle is a focus on International, maybe it something else. It would truly be wonderful if the Senior Leadership of this company could enlighten us a bit since they were the ones that put the "one and done" out there. Don't really want to have to be thinking about this 24/7 as we approach the holidays. Maybe someone can tell the new Head of PSKY Human Resources to truly do the "human" thing and provide some guidance here. They set the expectations on this in August, not us. And now here we are again...

what does this mean?

Just wanted to follow up—still no invite on my end. Curious if anyone here has received theirs yet or heard anything through the grapevine?

Also, for those tracking layoffs.com/dell, keep an eye on the bot activity. Historically, when things start shifting, the upvote/downvote patterns tend to flatten out. Might be worth watching over the next few weeks.

Share what you know.

At Verizon, we are always listening to what our customers are saying as we focus on giving them the best experience at incredible value.

It seems with all the changes and weather and the hurricane affecting JSL Multi contact is dead why? Frontline seems busy but no transfers? Any insight?

Note of Thanks to Dublin Office

Please pass along my sincere thanks to the Dublin team for their exceptional engagement over the past 12 months regarding the Wexford office closure.

Their responsiveness and clear, compassionate communication have been critical in managing redundancies and arranging remote-working transitions.

Key highlights include rapid coordination with HR and line managers, thoughtful one-to-one support for impacted colleagues, timely IT onboarding for remote roles, and the practical FAQs and check-ins that helped reduce anxiety and uncertainty. Their professionalism and empathy have made a difficult process significantly more manageable for everyone involved.

I look forward to enhanced support from HR and Management across this business lines during the month of November.

Especially since the card carrying members of Mensa who run Truist can't even articulate what it's supposed to mean. Incredibly insulting to your employees. You've failed us all.

Usually there is an email sent out around this time of year for progress on Success Bonus. If green or yellow or whatever. Anyone seen it? Any word from the suits on our bonus?

It seems manager have already data for December layoffs. Which will be communicated in the last week of November.

At least he's consistent.
Who thought using an AI-generated voice model would be a good idea? What message does it send?

Also reading the gibberish he read out, not sure what's worse that he did write it but just got AI to say it or that it was clearly spewed out by AI?

Just got terminated anyone know when is last day ?? got no info besides being eliminated

Anyone able to summarise what went down on the town hall today?

I am not talking about AI here.

1. Stop with all the daily emails and invites to countless town halls from VP to SVP levels and above. We don’t need Up 2 Speed Videos. Give me the daily Newsletter with more details about the whole company.
2. Stop letting HR change their platforms and Learning / UpSkilling strategy. A company should invest in their employees, but have a single strategy of what is available, clear pathways and keep it perm long enough for Employees to partake. The “Leadership” program was the biggest waste of my time, taking me away from projects to listen to Hosts / Instructors who never achieved anything of significance at Vz.
3. Have one IT Dept. we have had such a brain drain that most applications and enhancements now live in a black box no one knows how to fix when it breaks. Hire perm Project Managers, real PMO professionals who can guide our big projects over the line, and do so in a single platform instead of every PM deciding how they want to Run / Communicate or Document projects.

Thoughts?
We are paying RW how much to write his emails with AI?
Buybacks su-k and should be illegal.
“We don’t plan to cut benefits”. I’ll save that one also with the cr-p RTO quotes from years ago.

Anybody listen in on the call with the fighter pilot this morning at 9 am talking about Leadership? What a bag of hot air! I wish I had a dollar every time he said ‘fighter pilot’ I got nothing from that call.

Tuesday after pay day. Got invite to business update meeting last minute. Guy named we never met told us our positions eliminated. This is the entire firm. Never met the guy, talked in circles about models and we are definitely not part of it. This is a 60 day working so we will be kicked out right after Christmas. They created another job with 1/2 our duties plus other duties reporting to someone else. He didn’t answer questions or look at the camera. I asked around and they is no plan to replace the work we do. They will figure it out in 60 days.

I love my job and the people I work with. Even the ones who are a pain are still tolerable. However, for the last year or so, I hate coming into work the Tuesday after payday wondering if I’m next…and also seeing so many of my coworkers across multiple locations being laid off for no reason other than just coming to work and doing their job.

I also work in SA and constantly worry about losing my job knowing they just opened a new campus up in Dallas.

The CEO and COO needs to get off their a-s and come clean with employees setting the expectation for how many more layoffs can we expect before they cool it.

someone posted the other day that rick gomez was part of the cuts. Vendor community just recieved an email from him about Moving forward at Target

Is anybody else really, really worried about this?

“Today is a moment to move forward”
“Lean on one another for support” “Let’s move forward” “as we step ahead together” “remove complexity” “Thank you for all you will bring to Target’s next chapter” “remove barriers” “move forward with purpose”

We f’n get it.

So we’re supposed to sit here for twenty-two days, wondering if we still have jobs. Twenty-two days of stress, rumors, and sleepless nights. It’s unbelievable how inhumane this process is. They could have given us a week’s notice, even a few days. But no, they’d rather drag it out and make everyone suffer.