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Have you noticed that the constant volunteer harassment has ended. Maybe Verizon is turning a corner.

The 2024 layoff was an absolute cluster. The company basically lost an entire year due to one of the most inept corporate executions I've ever seen. Everything was at a standstill between December 2023, when JD made the layoff announcement, and September 2024, when EH came on board. Now think about a company of this size being at a standstill for a year... there was no way this was going to be a quick turnaround, regardless of what anyone said. Even if the layoffs made sense, their poor execution negated any impact it was supposed to have.

It’s crazy to see HR don’t do family background check for such big company.

Hopefully it improves

Dell announced price increases for its commercial PCs, sparking worries about the potential impact on customer demand.
The price hikes were reportedly driven by a shortage of memory components, with some estimates suggesting increases of up to 30%. This development led to unease among investors about the affordability for business customers and its potential effect on sales.

You all know who you are. And we all know who you are as well. Your insecurity is laughable. Keep talking more and more. Quietly listening in your meetings I love hearing about your control statements about “your money”, “your model”, or how you’ve never seen so many people invited to a peer review before. Actually heard one of these guys recently say “ I actually have a college degree”. Funny both poor examples I saw today are COP leaders.

I happily heard competent people today as well say “our money”, “the relevant people”, and “our model”.

Chevron needs team players to win in any environment, not insecure power trippers. Please get with the program.

Does any one when the company scorecard is shared for performance year

Another Frankie c-suiter is leaving. Chris Augustine is retiring. I wonder if it was by choice? Word is another Indian from FIG is taking his place.

The company just announced selling the telco business to HCLTech. I would be jumping ship. If the company is politely saying that they don’t want this business anymore, then you might be worse off than at HCLTech.

I hope we get to go home at 2:00 on Christmas Eve this year like in years past.

Has anyone heard? Seems management knows but haven’t officially announced

https://old.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/1ppowek/att_staff_outrage_prompts_ceo_stankey_to_regret/

It's nice to finally hear that DG is trying to accommodate remote workers in thoughtful manner next year!

What is the new sick time policy going into effect in 2026?

What are people hearing?

Xerox-Lexmark Sue Trump Over Controversial Tariffs: The Battle for Refunds. (find it!)

Where in the strategy of the Lexmark acquisition was there the action to railroad Xerox completely. Xerox is far from perfect (and Lexmark is far from perfect as well. They did lose £600M last year) BUT Xerox does have a heritage, does know some stuff and has done some good stuff and yet Lex are railroading every decision - ignoring Xerox people, no regard for any Xerox experience and ignoring everything that has ever been done. Why don’t the EC just pay off Xerox people and leave the apparently-Lexmark-wonders to manage it all?

The only thing he’s doing is planning ahead for the 2026 layoffs in January

I know Hemsley sent an email a few months ago that said we have something like 370,000 employees. But approximately how many of those are in the US? And what do you think the split is between employees of UHC and Optum?

where do you sit and what department are you working out of? …..trying to see if what we’ve been complaining about is a company wise issue or a department issue….

A long, boring MyLearning about email etiquette incoming in 3, 2, 1…

Does anyone know if the reviews being leveled to everyone being rated as “on track” something across the firm, or just in specific areas?

Billionaire Darwin Deason The Man Who Sold ACS To Xerox for $6.4 Billion in 2010 Passes Away at 85. (Xerox's Largest Chairholder)

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Meg, one of ours will be the next BP CEO. Shame she could have been the XOM CEO as she would be so much better than DWW or next in-line DA

This place operates like a spreadsheet with badges. If you are not part of the small group steering decisions, you are just a cost line waiting to be adjusted. There are companies that still treat people like long-term investments. T is not one of them.

What will be Verizon's price/share after the duly Frontier Telecommunications merger?

By the way, earlier this week, Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money, took a caller's Verizon question, and emphatically said, no to invest money into Verizon's shares.

https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-visas-banned-republican-proposal-11226290

There are many, many fun and frolicky events taking place and planned for January and February, sponsored by senior leaders, who have zero concern about spending money. Pretend meetings with special team building events costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Can the Board know? Company is crying poor mouth and yet leaders seem to have no concern dropping company money on ski chalets and wine tasting.

and I don't mean that in a good way either

Xerox demise used to be compared to Kodak. Now more like iRobot. Is the iRobot putt one xerox can even read? Would Etria even find xerox valuable enough for the paperwork?
https://etria.global/en/

Oracle defends infrastructure spending spree amid mounting AI demand

The company raised its fiscal year capital investments forecast by $15 billion as its cloud backlog surpassed $500 billion.

The company defended the $15 billion increase with assurances that the investments were tied to committed customer spend. “The vast majority of our capex investments are for revenue-generating equipment that is going into our data centers,” Principal Financial Officer Doug Kehring said. “We are confident that our customer backlog is at a healthy level and that we have the operational and financial strength to execute successfully.”

https://www.channeldive.com/news/oracle-capex-spike-cloud-ai-data-center/807716/

Need to shut this down! As human beings how can we accept this from a company? How can we be apart of a blood money scheme like this? CLOSE THIS DOWN!!!! I used to work there…. This is 100% factual!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/17/unitedhealth-nursing-homes

Heard a rumor this week. Curious if anyone has heard anything about Humana being sold?

Please give the money to charity in the future instead of insulting your employees who have delivered everything for the company.

Did everyone get a “special message” invite on Friday 12/29 in Ambetter?? Kind of freaking out!

The strategy is not working so well to delight the customers. Don't CEOs realize that word of mouth via your worker bees is crucial to company success. Anyone else have friends jumping ship? I am not even bad mouthing VZ, this is all being done based on their own intentions from all the news about the RIF and knowing I was a casualty.