#conflict

The idea that a fiber technician can properly maintain a hybrid fiber coaxial plant with limited hours and frequent outages while also disparaging the expertise of outside plant technicians , and vice versa referring to us as maintenance technicians, is completely ridiculous always trying to reinvent the wheel when you know this Altice Optimum experiment will always be nothing but a ponzi scheme

Lexmark was purchased by Xerox.
Yes Lexmark is owned by Xerox.
BUT... Lexmark the company has not yet been disolved.
SO.... Lexmark employees are still getting pay checks from the Company Lexmark.

But lets be honest.
Legacy Xerox no longer exists.
Legacy Lexmark no longer exists.
What exists is "New CO", but I only see Xerox people fighting against the future and instead holding on tight to the "Legacy".

So the bigger question is why do the "Legacy" Xerox employees feel a need to be mean, narcisitic a--holes to the "Legacy" Lexmark employees who are just trying to do our jobs as the "Business" / "NEW CO" has asked us to do?

Since you get offended anytime you feel like the "Legacy Xerox" way is being subligated or talked badly about or neglected... please tell us how you would like us to refer to the different technologies, proceadures, processes and servers so that there is no mistaking which component is being discussed?

Also Please let us know how we move forward as the "NEW CO" so that your feelings aren't hurt everytime a business decision has to be made for the betterment of the "NEW CO".

Would you like us to just start refering to "Legacy Xerox" people as "our supreme overlords" and "Legacy Lexmark" people as "Those that you saved"? Because thats how it feels.

Or here is an idea... how about you get rid of he idea that the Xerox you see today is the same Xerox that existed a year ago or 5 years ago etc.. etc..

Instead realize we are now a team and we have to make hard decisions and choose what's best for "New CO" which means cobeliing together pieces from both. Maybe that means chosing "Legacy Xerox" options or maybe it means chosing "Legacy Lexmark options.

You don't have to like it but fu--ing stop with the narcistic idea that you are somehow better than the people trying to work with you and patch the holes in the sinking ship.

I received an M rating, and people are telling me it’s bad? . I’m the smartest person on my team and my “boss” is an unqualified Saudi woman. I’ve emailed her boss and told him as much, but I don’t know if that will help? To those of you considering coming here, be mindful they prioritize their own despite how much value you may add.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/unitedhealth-ceo-privately-invested-in-potential-competitors-wall-street-journal/

No conflict of interest at all, right?

Right?

Bro has money poisoning.

My favorite quote: "Directors of companies registered in Delaware, as UnitedHealth is, have a “duty of loyalty”—an obligation to put the company’s interests ahead of their own. A director who invests personally in a startup in the same industry without first clearing it with his company could be breaching that duty, legal experts say."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/unitedhealth-chief-made-private-side-bets-on-healthcare-startups/ar-AA1Wucr8

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/target-director-says-she-had-global-entry-voided-days-after-encounter-with-ice

Have heard conflicting things either massive reorg or a layoff. My money is on both. Seeing people reporting their teammates being laid off.

OMG! Another one of our former ELT is joining A&M. The same BT firm we wasted millions of $$$ on. There must a a conflict of interest or under the table deal. Pay the millions, when BT doesn’t work and you jump ship, just join them.

Ethics should investigate! Oh wait…that would be a waste of time.

my Boss says after she approved my vacation on Oct 25 that I now cant take my vacation we had planned as a family and my job would be in jeopardy. I have documentation on are Communication and I am taking the two week vacation

Did Rich Baich engage in conduct that may constitute a conflict of interest? Rich Baich serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Senior Vice President at AT&T. Rich's daughter, for reference, serves as Director of Product Management at SimSpace, a cybersecurity training platform.

• In November 2024, Rich Baich hosted SimSpace’s Cyber Cup competition at AT&T's HQ, in which AT&T placed first in the Cyber Cup Defensive Challenge.

• Rich and his daughter presented together at RSAC 2025 in a session titled “Nurturing the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders” on April 28, 2025. https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/rich-baich

• Rich Baich hosted the 2025 “Telecommunications Cyber Cup Challenge,” involving 13 global telecommunications carriers in Washington D.C., with SimSpace. https://www.attconnects.com/working-together-to-prepare-for-tomorrows-threats-today/

Do these activities represent a potential conflict of interest, abuse of position or authority, lack of objectivity, breach of fiduciary duty, or violation of corporate ethics policies?

AT&T Code of Ethics https://investors.att.com/~/media/Files/A/ATT-IR-V2/governance-documents/att-code-of-ethics.pdf

https://www.wealthmanagement.com/regulation-compliance/federal-court-sanctions-envestnet-for-destroying-evidence-in-trade-secrets-case

The HR excused me of forging the note. I responded saying HR Karen, I don't like being excused or forging a doctor's note, therefore have your HR manager call my doctor and verify the note. The HR Karen got in a huff about my referring to her as a Karen and told me she was going to have me written up by my manager for it. I talked to my manager before the start of break, and he told me not to worry about it because he's not going to take any orders from a Boeing HR Karen demanding I be written up.

In my old company, a colleague had a serious issue with a director and went to HR for help. She documented everything perfectly. Instead of investigating, HR scheduled a mediation where they sided with the director and suggested my colleague was not a team fit. It was a clear lesson that their only job is to protect the company from us. From what I've seen here so far, the same applies here.

Warner Bros Discovery has urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover offer from Paramount Skydance, branding it “inadequate” amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the legacy media conglomerate.

In a blunt letter to shareholders on Wednesday morning, WBD accused Paramount of having “consistently misled” investors by claiming its bid has a “full backstop” – a safety net to ensure it has sufficient funds – from the Ellisons.

Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Following a careful evaluation of Paramount’s recently launched tender offer, the Board concluded that the offer’s value is inadequate, with significant risks and costs imposed on our shareholders,” Samuel A Di Piazza Jr, chairman of WBD’s board, said in a statement. “This offer once again fails to address key concerns that we have consistently communicated to Paramount throughout our extensive engagement and review of their six previous proposals.

“We are confident that our merger with Netflix represents superior, more certain value for our shareholders and we look forward to delivering on the compelling benefits of our combination.”

Source: The Guardian

I was am employee from VMware. After in BC, I find managers always fight with other manager.

They make every source code, KB and discuss meeting notes only available inside the group, ask engineer do not do any task comes from other manager, and even ask engineer do not help customer just because the team is busy on a new version release.

Today my manager ask me to fight with a team member, pushing them to do something.

How does this phenomenon occur?

Why don’t you just leave this site?
Stop commenting on every post. We will not stop sharing. Maybe you need to see a therapist. Maybe you clearly also need a friend because you seem real lonely. Anyways bye boomer.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-defends-its-star-executive-hire-in-legal-clash-with-tsmc-e6c9de6e

https://thevisafiles.substack.com/p/capital-one

Are we still at war with each other? Every where I look it’s people saying “this never happened until the merger” or “sprint was/is better and we’re changing this company”

I posted here about how a TC vape pen was planted on company grounds. I reported discriminatory harassment, which ended up with what I'm certain was retaliation. I criticized this heavily, and believe some former/current C-suite have escalated things. It has been posted on this forum about a 2013 spying scandal. You will find that certain technologies were still being used according to their 2020 financial reports listing Fiserv as a client. These are difficult people that will do whatever they want to make your life hll in NJ.

Trying so hard to get job permanently. Her latest LinkedIn post trying to be vulnerable is so fake. Your lack of experience showed last week so do not try to cover up.

This post will disappear as she has people remove any posts that are critical of her.

What is with the Tesco lawsuit? Seem Samsung as well?

https://cloudinfra.blog/how-broadcoms-takeover-of-vmware-sparked-lawsuits-patch-access-fights-and-a-licensing-backlash/

I recently found out that Hughes doesn’t actually own the Jupiter-3 satellite, it’s leased from EchoStar, and Hughes pays about $190 million per year for that lease.

I also learned that the SpaceX–EchoStar spectrum deal includes a clause requiring EchoStar/Hughes to refer new customers to Starlink. Essentially, if someone wants satellite internet, EchoStar will direct them to SpaceX’s Starlink service . Bonkers 🤯

Has anyone ever successfully reported a colleague for s-xism?

I’m not sure what route to go but it’s an issue multiple people have noticed.

The bickering between EQT elites and Zayo has beens now? Oh yeah, and the New Crown leftovers?

Chris Conway is still listed as a company contact at BBB. Hasn't he been gone for months and didn't the company sue him ?

$$$$$$$$$$$&

Local BBB:
BBB Serving Metropolitan New York
BBB File Opened:
5/16/2000
Business Started:
11/1/1945
Business Incorporated:
1/3/1945
Type of Entity:
Corporation
Alternate Names:
Mutual of America Life Insurance Company
Business Management:
Mr. Stephen J. Rich, Chairman, CEO and President

Ms. Christine Janofsky, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Chris Conway, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer

Subhang R. Shah, Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer

Mr. Joseph R. Gaffoglio, CEO of Mutual of America Capital Management

Mr. Shannon Moriarty, Executive Vice President, Operations

That is all

"What does the following article have to do with layoffs?" You might ask. It shows we have lots of room for improvement. Plenty of trash to take out...

If a visitor parked in a way that blocked all of your reserved parking spots instead of parking in one visitor parking spot, what would you do?

Would you let them park there and park in a visitor spot, or would you find a way to make them pay for breaking the rules?

In this story, one homeowner is furious when a fiber company parks their digger in a way that blocks all of their home’s private parking spots.

Keep reading to see how they handle the situation.

Sort the parking out? Ok, let me know if this works for you company with V in their name.
Back in the heyday of a fiber company with the letter V in their name, they were jamming fiber into the ground as fast as they could, they came to our townhouse village.

We got notice that they would be starting the next Monday and that they would be going along the inside edge of the sidewalks to set primary fibers and if we wanted it to come to the house to paste this orange sign on our front doors.

Ok, I was happy with the current provider, so no orange for me.

The digger guy didn’t care about making sense.

Parking is tight, with spaces for residents (marked) and some for visitors (marked).

I was surprised to come home on Friday to see a DitchWitch (cable digging / insertion machine) across the three spaces my family normally used.

I said to the workman that they were in my spaces, and they were across them.

Why not move to the visitor spot next spot over and rather than being across them, just put the machine in the spot like it was a car.

That way it would take one spot not three.

Digger guy goes “I already set it there, I have other work, you can sort out the parking” and drove off.

Ok fine.

They’re going to make it the digger guy’s problem.

So I park my car as close as I can get to the machine (using the visitors spot).

When next car arrives, we place it as close to the machine in the space on the other side.

Next car goes across the three spaces parallel to the machine. This blocks it in on three sides, can’t get out the 4th since there are the concrete bumpers.

Plus lack of wiggle room.

Others make alternate plans to get to work, I stay home to watch the action.

Digger guy shows up. Sees that he’s blocked in and is very sad. Stomps around the digger, around the cars, around the digger, another pass around the cars.

They go to the first town house. No answer. Second, third, fourth all at work. Gets to me.

The digger guy seemed to think they’d just move the cars if asked.

“Those your cars?”

“Yep, parked in my spot”

“You need to move them.”

“Nope, busy with other work” and I close the door.

Bang, bang, bang. “You can’t block me in, you can’t park there.”

“I can park there and look at them I already did. You said for me to sort my parking out on Friday and I did”.

“I’m going to call the police.”

“Go for it” and I closed the door.

This time, the site engineer thinks he can get the cars moved.

About an hour passed, knock at the door. “I’m the site engineer for a company with V in their name, are those cars yours?”

“Yep”

“You need to move them”.

“No, when your work drone dropped the machine off, I suggested rather than take up three spaces, they take up one. They said I should sort my own parking out. I did and I have other work to do.”

Closed the door. More knocking that I ignored.

By now there is a crowd of workpeople milling around.

We’re going even higher up the food chain.

Another hour passes, new knocking. “I’m the Senior project engineer for a company with V in their name, are those cars yours?”

“Yep”

“You need to move them”.

“No, when your work drone dropped the machine off, I suggested rather than take up three spaces, they take up one. They said I should sort my own parking out. I did and I have other work to do.”

“We’ll call the police”

“You do that” close the door.

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Finally, the police arrive.

While finishing lunch, knock at the door. “This is the police”.

Open up, and ask how I can help. Get told by Office Obie to move my car or they would be towed.

I pointed to the “Private Property” sign and said “This is a private parking lot, you don’t have jurisdiction, in fact when we have complained about issues, your Chief has said you don’t have jurisdiction. So you can’t call the tow, you need to deal with the homeowners association.”

Some splutter by Officer Obie but acknowledged they don’t have jurisdiction to call a tow and left.

Now, the HOA gets involved.

Late afternoon knock at the door. “Hey Kilted, this is member of the HOA.”

I open up, we go out, I explain the situation (sorry no 8×10 color glossies with circles and paragraphs on the back) to them.

HOA yells at people from Company that has V in their name.

Company people looks sad.

They reach an agreeement.

HOA member asks how can we solve this?

I go, “Well illegal parking is a $100 fine, they are across three spaces, so that would be $300 fine, they pay that we can call it a day (winking at HOA member.)

“That works, I fine you $300 per day company with V in their name”

Senior engineer with a company with V in their name goes “Ok, we will pay it, move the cars. “

Not so fast.

I go “They look like they will pull a runner on you, I’d get payment first.”

“Good idea, you can pay me the fine since I’m the HOA.”

“I can’t get you a check today.”

“When you get the check, you can start. Otherwise, there is a bank down the street, cash will work.”

Senior engineer slinks away.

Now they understand what the visitor spot is for.

HOA member and I chat outside while worker drones mill around. Senior engineer returns, hands cash to the HOA member and goes “OK, now move your cars”.

I comply putting cars in other slots. When I come back from moving the last car, I see the digger parked in the visitor spot, correctly like a car. “What’s with that HOA member?”

“Well they decided that they had wasted the entire day and would start again tomorrow.”

They came and did the wires the next three days, each day the digger was returned to it’s spot. Oddly, I never saw the guy that wanted me to “sort my own parking out” again.

I wonder if the digger guy got fired. Regardless, this is a rare story where the HOA is the good guy.

What happened?

I recently lost a Canon production machine where CSA (now Canon USA) was the incumbent.

My customer decided to price me out to a local Canon dealership and as you can imagine I lost the deal because I was I undercut. I informed my direct supervisor who escalated this but nothing happened. I lose and Canon still wins? Of course.

This seems somewhat unfair because if the situation was reversed my head would be on the chopping block. I have seriously had it with Canon USA not supporting the reps. Everything is a challenge these days and it seems like every time I turn around they found another way to reduce my compensation.

Clearly our senior leaders will never rock the boat and slap the wrists of the dealership for fear they won’t sell Canon. This transition into Canon USA has been terrible for sales. All of the promises that were made were nothing more than lies. Just our email addresses, right Pete. Your sales staff can’t stand you and your retirement can’t come soon enough.

Your divisions are dog sh-t. Always below the line of doom. LMAO 🤣

It's like losers arguing who the bigger loser is.