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For those who love to see all these complaints and pity that fly around this forum, this is your chance to make a change. Go to your proxy site and vote as you wish. If there are enough of you, you’ll have your way. If you are too lazy to even click on a button on your phone screen, then quit complaining.

With stock price getting down, there will be heavy push for AI driven automations every day pressuring employees to automate.

Note that once you automate your position is gone

Seriously, is Factset opening nee leadership positions for senior folks from Citi and JPMorgan? All these positions will cost 7 figures each, while we have constant layoffs.
BS’s email this morning had a byline for each of the new positions and it was nothing but fluff. Are we a just jobs program for old friends of BS and SV?

Of course, there will still be the Starlink stock pumpers on here who think we are all flat earthers.
Looks like someone coached Dan about how Starlink CANNOT take away from the terrestrial networks in a very substantial way. Physics!

Per Dan, in the article:
In terms of broadband competition from satellite providers, “it is very difficult for satellite providers to provide a service that's even close to what we can provide with our broadband services,” he said.
He walked through the basics of satellite beams and what they can offer by way of speeds versus ground-based systems.
“We’re like 100 times to 1,000 times more efficient,” he said. “Our speeds and capabilities are much higher, and it’s basically not possible because of physics. Not because of execution, but because of physics.”
The majority of Verizon’s service revenue is in urban and suburban geographies. He acknowledged that satellite does have a total addressable market (TAM) that’s probably between 6 million and 8 million homes in the U.S., primarily in very rural geographies where building out a terrestrial network is cost prohibitive.

“It doesn’t pencil out,” he said.

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/verizon-ceo-shuts-down-starlink-mvno-talk-touts-strong-q2-comeback

ORCL investors can't unload this POS fast enough, it closed for the week - barely above the 52 week low!!

Klaxon sirons should be going off for all investors and employees at this point. One thing is certain, however. The August layoff will be a bl**dbath!

If even then. I'm starting to get a bit optimistic that this whole thing could fall through in the end.

https://www.engadget.com/2222897/paramount-agrees-to-delay-warner-bros-merger-into-2027/

On top of everything else. What an absolute pile of junk this company is. I actually believe the mile long load of BS I was fed for years.

Was this filed under “doing what’s right” or “doing what’s easy?”

https://www.beckerspayer.com/legal/ex-centene-vice-president-accuses-company-of-age-discrimination/

Looking at opportunities, and this fits a lot of what I’ve done. Looking through pages like this, I’m not sure this is the right place to move to, any advice?

What happens if you don’t take it? Is it a laid off situation or voluntarily quit?

I’m hearing this is happening in some pockets of the organization.

The main install contract for Flock is being fulfilled by Dish and their contractors.

That's how low ergin will stoop. He'll foist a totalitarian police state on you if it means he gets to stay rich.

What does it feel like working for actual evil?

Any reductions compared to the last time?

Cutting jobs...

https://freeimage.host/i/COmajIt

Keep it classy, Leahy.

Sorry, not sorry.

As I read it, Q2 was strong. However, travel still restricted, rumblings about layoffs are still loud. What is going on?

How many times will I need to hear his sp-t?

As someone who wasn’t affected by this transformation, I find this little gathering cold and heartless.

The photo op from the smiling executive team is like pouring salt into an open wound.

Didn’t they admit morale was low? This event and subsequent post in the company feed does not help.

Zero emotional intelligence.

Did you know Arista is half the market cap of Cisco and only has 5100 employees compared to 86,000 employees at Cisco?

What happened at Polaris? Was it an employee attacking another employee or did some rando walk in off the street?

It looks like leadership announcements are starting to happen in the US downstream. More to come???

Will we get the email from VSP in our personal or company email address? I keep checking back and forth. They said we will be notified on or around 7/27 so I am hoping to get something today. Tired of these waiting games.

Question for HouseCalls APCs — how’s everyone’s schedule looking for August and September? Curious if others are noticing a pattern of unusually few visits scheduled starting mid-August onward.

Anyone else hearing rumblings of RTO five days a week?

If true, 3M is returning to the Stone Age and this is BB attempt at getting more people to quit. What a joke.

HPE is being reshaped into a leaner networking-and-AI company, and anything that doesn’t serve that thesis is now on the table.

Question 1 - Is there the option to defer severance to the next calendar year? Question 2 - Is remaining vacation paid with normal paycheck or with the severance?

This guy is so full of it. Now he’s saying he’s going to transform central offices to data centers he’s full of it and no one believes him. Stock will go back down next week

Foe this group, one thing for sure Dan will continue to do what is “wowking”. These messages is what he lives for, not you.

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-delivers-record-2q26-results

Dan and his evil cronies fired you to buy back $1b worth of shares. Just evil

At&t loves a good slogan they can jam down everyone's throats as if that's going to change anything with how terrible the company actually is. Stinkeys "Marketbased Culture" is the latest. "Fast. Friendly. Fixed" is the other and both couldn't be further from reality. Anything to deviate from highlighting the fact that MOST anyone L3 and higher are overpaid, have nothing valuable to contribute and actively waste everyone else's time DAILY. THE ONLY REAL REASON anyone is still working here (and I will say for the majority of people) is the job market is also so trash right now, no one can risk being out of a job for an extended period of time especially if they have homes and families. That whole "just leave" argument is cute though.

What was your assessment feedback? Share the most useless and inactionable feedback you received this year.

Bob is quoted as saying "I'll buy that for a dollar"!

I'd avoid this company until the Paramount merger settles. I just got caught up in the layoffs along with several other coworkers. The future is uncertain and job security is low at the moment. I was in a tech position.

I finally did it. Put in my notice on Monday, walked out the door, and didn't look back. I didn't even give a two week's notice. I don't plan to be back so I don't care if I burnt any bridges. I watched nepotism get promoted and talent get ignored for years. Enough is enough.

There's no such thing as job security here anymore. Just the illusion of it until the next email.

Three people left last month, two to competitors, one to retirement. Zero backfills. We've just accepted that this is our new normal.

I try to teach the newbies the ropes, but they're on their phones or walking off mid-explanation. Maybe I'm just old-school, but I thought you were supposed to actually learn the job once you join a company. Isn't that the minimum requirement? What's their game plan here?

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/clearly-got-woke-building-ex-185218193.html

"Form 8-K is a mandatory current report filed by U.S. publicly traded companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose significant, unscheduled corporate events. Companies generally have four business days from the occurrence of a material event to file this form, ensuring investors receive timely updates between annual (10-K) and quarterly (10-Q) reports. "

It was filed yesterday:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000005114326000077/ibm-20260722.htm
https://www.ibm.com/investor/financial-reporting

Not sure if this means more bad news is coming or if this was them filing something about the 2Q Earnings that took 25% of the stock. Examples I was given of things that a 8-K is for is a C-suite quitting or being removed, bankruptcy, or the loss of a significant large contract.