#industry

you should do NOW is bag your Nike job. Give your manager an hour's notice that you are resigning from your job at the end of the day. Let's say you normally get off work at 5 pm. So, you should tell, email or call your manager at 4 pm and say Adios! Then at 5 pm as you walk out of your Nike office for the last time.
Your next move should be a career change. So, to make yourself sound like a solid prospect to potential employers in whatever career change you decide to pursue, you need a good resume even if it's fake. Like where you take all the credit for someone's else work saying you did this and that and saved Nike a billion dollars. With this approach your bound to get your foot in the door with whatever company you want to work for next.

That should tell you all you need to know about how far Nike has fallen…

How is this allowed when STS is so behind on tech compared to others in industry? When others cant do anything that will get approved by compliance

https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=26170519&gfv=1

https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/FTDR/form-4-frontdoor-inc-insider-trading-activity-f2fdb9b25268.html

Layoffs are about politics and wages, not talent. Speak up? You’re on the list. Good people were kicked out after cloud, XaaS, third party integration, and confidential data outside our control warnings. Now? Industry breaches. Compromises. Remind everyone that Menace, Tiny, Says, Rabama and Circumcised focused more on silencing professional warnings and not locking doors.

Multiple gambling companies announced layoffs this week. Penn Entertainment cut over 75 employees from its interactive division. Gambling.com Group reduced its workforce by 25%, impacting around 150 people. LSports, an Israeli data provider, also laid off 39 employees. AI adoption, slowing growth, and new competition drive these cuts. The online gambling industry faces a broader recalibration.

https://frontofficesports.com/gambling-layoffs-pile-up-as-sports-betting-industry-recalibrates/

Metrics, work flow, policies, changes, fear tactics. Nothing is adding up. I am starting to see this Industry in the same light as a consumer.

i see there’s another trade show in philly —/ do people actually still go to these ?

In the early days of cloud i used to hear everywhere mainly coming from Amazon. The folks who came to oracle from Amazon in the early days has only one saying in every town hall, calls at oracle- "Customer obsession". I am not hearing it anymore. it got dried out as money got dried out i guess. classic "Freakonomics "

Ladies and Gentlemen, always go with your gut feeling. Don’t rely on or listen to the rhetoric that you read on these posts, you will never know if they are friend or foe from within Xerox or even the industry. Do your research and have a “gut check” to understand where you are in all of this chaos, and make a decision. Either stick it out and give it you’re all while supporting team mates or choose to refresh your resume, and seek a different path moving forward.

Those of us that are/were actually in this industry, know it’s not the easiest way to make a living, but it is lucrative if you take care of customers and gain their trust.

Consider your future either way: Personally, I was part of an iRIF. Fortunately, I noticed some red flags that caused me to take a defensive move several months prior to being let go. # 1 flag was the COO stepping down after building up the re-invention plan.

Whatever your decision, plan for your future, whether you stay or decide to move on.

The gaming industry is experiencing significant layoffs. Sony, EA, and Supermassive Games reduced their workforces. Star Citizen also implemented staff cuts. These events were reported around March 2026. The sector faces ongoing challenges.

https://fathomjournal.org/a2aedd58smm/d9024c49-BfBU6xGz_W4.html

• technical commentary about satellite images of damage at Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG complex after the March 2026 Iranian strike.

• Trains 4 and 6 are jointly owned with the Qataris by ExxonMobil.

• The writer thinks Iran may have chosen those targets deliberately to pressure both Qatar and ExxonMobil.

https://x.com/lngfrankie/status/2037769080900378883

Wow, those are some very interesting images. The highest quality I have seen to date, with some valuable information. Thank you for sharing.

If you are asking what I see, well, first understand a couple things. I am not a military person, or familiar with bo-b damage assessment. Nor am I a political person, or economist. I just build and operate the hardware. So I’ll tell you what this looks like from a hardware perspective, and label things that are objectively facts vs. things I am guessing at or if I put any opinions in.

With those caveats, here are some facts and my analysis of the Train 6 strike. I’ve attached two pictures. The first is the undamaged facility from happier days. I’ve labelled the north end of the train with some color coded boxes, and a couple dimensions on Train 7 to give a sense of scale.

Train 6 used an Air Products (now Honeywell) AP-X process, which has three refrigeration loops in series, each driven by a Frame 9 mechanical drive turbine – a propane (C3) loop, a mixed refrigerant (MR) loop, and a nitrogen expansion (N2) loop. Propane precools the feed gas and the refrigerant, the MR liquefies it, and the N2 subcools it all the way to -160 C.

At the southern most portion of the photo, in blue, there is the propane refrigerant system. Process equipment is to the west of the main spine rack, and the driver is to the east. Drivers include both the turbine and the compressors on a single shaft for each loop, and they are located under the 220 m long turbine building with the tan roof. Exhaust stack is immediately to the east turbine building, with the VFD components just south of the stack.

The red boxes in the middle are the primary liquefaction section, with two machines on the east in the turbine building, and the main cryogenic heat exchangers (MCHEs) on the west side of the rack. I’ve labelled the MCHE’s. The larger is the MR MCHE, which is about 50 m tall, and has a two inch thick aluminum shell. The N2 MCHE for gas subcooling is a little further to the west. It is shorter and has a stronger stainless steel shell; it is a substantially stouter piece of equipment. These two MCHEs combined are in the range of $50-100MM capital cost with a two year lead time.

The yellow box at the top is the helium extraction unit. The machinery is electrically driven compander, inside the small building, and the primary separation column is just to the east of the building.

With the basics out of the way, take a look at the second picture. I’ve marked where the missile impacted, and the visible area of damage; the shadows disguise some of the blast and make it a bit harder to see. But from my view, it is quite bad, having hit immediately north of the MR MCHE, doing a fine job of messing up the equipment in the liquefaction section. Compare to Train 7 next door. I’ve marked the approximate circle of visible damage, which indicates an immediate blast radius on order of 50 meters. While I’m not military, it is pretty easy to calculate the energies involved, which indicates to me that we are talking about something on order of ~100 kg HE warhead. Sizable enough to do some real damage, but not a catastrophic hit from 500 kg or more. I am a bit surprised I could not see more damage from the subsequent fires. Qatari emergency crews responded to the fires, and it appears to me they did quite well at extinguishing them quickly before significant escalation.

Note the precision of the hit. If I were responsible for targeting this facility, … well, I couldn’t do it, because I love these facilities and the machines in them too much. But if a hypothetical person who knew about the facilities and wanted to harm them was planning it, this is just about where they would place a strike to cause maximum damage. Possibly a little further to the southeast to strike right on top of the MR turbine, but certainly within about 50 meters of the actual strike point. That will give a feel for the CEP of these missiles. It is quite good, which I understand is not at all a given for nations building missiles. Remember the notorious inaccuracy of the Iraqi Scuds during the 1991 Gulf War. The Iranians don’t suffer from the same problem – they can hit what they aim at with considerable precision despite American and Gulf nation efforts at interception at one of the most heavily defended areas in the Gulf. In fact, in Qatar, this site is probably the most heavily defended site, only excepting Al Udeid air base and Doha itself.

What was damaged? The resolution is not adequate to fully identify everything – you’d really need a walk through to be sure. But it is clear the MR MCHE is destroyed, along with some of the smaller pieces of equipment around there. The N2 MCHE is still standing, but there is some visible damage. I’d guess that, even with the shell standing, a missile strike this close would complete destroy soft items – insulation, instruments, cabling, platforms – and likely perforate the shell with fragments such that it would be unusable as a pressure vessel. My best guess is the N2 MCHE will require replacement.

To the east, the turbine housing roof appears undamaged, but I think this is deceptive. The roof is about 40 meters high, and the missile blast wave will initiate below it and propagate sideways under the pipe rack and through the building. Both the N2 and MR machines are close to the blast point and likely received a significant overpressure, along with heat from the subsequent fire. I have no doubt they are damaged. Frame 9's are robust and reliable industrial machines, but they are not designed for missiles. Whether they can be repaired or will need to be replaced is an open question.

North of the impact point, I suspect the helium machine was protected from significant damage by the intervening piperack. However, the column protrudes above the piperack and probably caught an overpressure and significant fragmentation. My guess here is the helium column was likely perforated and will require major repair or replacement.

To the south, the MCHE’s and piperack absorbed most of the damage and my best guess is the propane system is likely undamaged, or only suffered minor damage.

Qatar has said the train will require 3 – 5 years to be back in operation. In my mind that seems a little conservative. If they can get to work immediately, and expedite procurement, I would guess about three years is a reasonable timeline. Five years I think is longer than will be required, absent another attack causing further damage.

Analysis? This is speculation on my part, and anyone might well disagree. But it appears to me that Iran was sending a message more than simply just trying to destroy. They used a precise missile, but with a somewhat smaller warhead, one that is large enough to cause heavy damage, but not so large as to cause catastrophic irreparable damage to the entire train or even to multiple trains. They also targeted two trains that are jointly owned with the Qataris by ExxonMobil. (Puzzle question – why did the second missile strike Train 4 instead of the larger Qatar-XOM Train 7? Or maybe they did try to hit Train 7, but that missile was intercepted? Don’t know…). But they conspicuously avoided hitting the trains that are co-owned by Japanese or Korean partners, trying to keep them onside or neutral in the war. To me, this strike seems to say, “Look Qatar and XOM – we can hurt you. But we didn’t hurt you as much as we could, and we want you to use your influence to get the US to stop and restore the status quo ante.” Whether that will work is for the political people to say. I do know the Qataris are royally ticked off at this attack.

Anyway, that is my read on it. It is definitely a very bad attack, one that caused substantial damage and will impact Qatari production for years. I am not trying to play down the impact in any way. But it is simultaneously true that it could have been worse.

I’ll look at the Train 4 strike when I can. Looks like the miss was a bit more there – it struck southwest of the turbine house, looks like it affected the propane equipment. These reviews take a bit of time, and I am chronically short of that commodity. But thank you again for sharing these photos.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/cisa-adds-cve-2025-53521-to-kev-after.html

Tyson recently laid off nearly 5,000 employees. These cuts impacted beef processing plants in Texas and Nebraska. An Arkansas expert links these layoffs to broader beef industry issues. The U.S. has its lowest beef cow population in 70 years. This trend could lead to more layoffs and plant closures.

Fayetteville, Arkansas

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/regional/arkansas-news/arkansas-expert-tyson-layoffs-beef-industry-issues/527-2270a346-c9c6-48c9-9bc3-a081f263a89b

P66 is literally a dumpster fire. I am utterly amazed that industry reporting and publications are remaining so silent. It could be that entities or people that stand to lose a lot are pushing the stock price up to get out. Make no mistake, there are significant internal issues and deficiencies that are on borrowed time. The reality I believe exists is that the damage is irreversible. The connection from top to bottom has been severed. There is no longer any trust or pride. It has become a purely transactional relationship between company and employee. One of the greatest petroleum stories ever in American history is on the brink of ending. Bartlesville will never be the same.

Siemens Industry faces a massive downsizing eliminating multiple layers of management while consolidating forces with vendor channels to eliminate branch and regional office structures. Siemens longtime US reputation in Building Technologies continues to struggle through tariff negotiations and industry competition forcing leadership to implement significant cost reductions mobilizing Siemens toward a new sustainable model for 2026

L3Harris will implement layoffs. A total of 63 employees are affected. The affected site is its Orlando laser systems facility. The job reductions stem from a sale to Perimeter Solutions Group. The changes become effective on April 30.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2026/02/27/l3harris-layoffs-orlando-sale-perimeter-solutions.html

Destroyed one of the best IT organizations in the industry. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Interesting that adidas is getting out of outdoor when Nike seems to be tripling down on ACG.. anyone know why?

Didn't this company learn anything from its past mistakes?? I'm in the branch and our DM is like get everyone to apply for a credit card even if the customers have a credit card, get them to apply for another because they will benefit!! The DM was shadowing my coworker assist an elderly client and the DM interrupted the banker and suggested to the other lady that she apply for the best credit card in the industry. The lady hesitated and politely said no, but the DM spent so much time pushing the credit card that the older lady finally stated, "if applying for a credit card will speed up the process for me being here, I'll apply." My DM was excited and had the banker do an application. After the lady left and no other customers were around, the DM said " That is how our bankers get new credit cards!" No one in the branch got a annual merit increase, but Wells Fargo is expecting more sales and in an unethical way to achieving those goals.

Breakthru Beverage Group has undergone a “strategic review” of the company’s “overall business,” according to a memo sent to employees by CEO Tom Bené on Tuesday, leading to layoffs of approximately 500 people, sources confirmed to Brewbound.

https://www.brewbound.com/news/breakthru-beverage-lays-off-500-workers-amid-industry-shakeup

The only one that's flourishing is Intel. At least we're the best at something, I guess.

Interesting post from analyst Roger Entner

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rogerentner_telecom-industryinsights-dataanalytics-activity-7424089431696949249-7h7i

Last week’s snow related remote work has shown what flexibility actually delivers. Without long commutes and constant office disruption, productivity increases, work gets completed faster, and people are willing to put in more time because they have the capacity to do so. That does not happen under a rigid five day office mandate.

Five days in the office adds cost and friction without measurable gains. Real collaboration can happen in two to three days when needed, which is already the market standard. For distributed teams, forced presence changes nothing except morale.

Talent has already responded. High performers with options have left. Those who remain are disengaging. The employee survey made this clear.

As a communications company, forcing presence while selling “work from anywhere” is a strategic contradiction. Remote work for office roles is inevitable. The only question is whether we lead or fall behind.

State Farm has become the MCInsurance of the industry and the MCHub cities are part of the problem! Selling soggy fries, flat Cokes, and forgot the cheese and extra pickles. The people we hire need to be serving fries and burgers for the most part. So do most of the agents. Just a bad Disney movie remake or in a typical Hollywood movie of today were everyone of the characters has to check some kind of DEI box and nobody cares if the movie su-ks, they just have to check the boxes at all costs. Place is such a sad dump!

https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/kevin-oleary-loves-why-his-companies-will-never-force-a-return-to-the-office/91291726

2025 Data, based on WARN:

• ITC Federal

  • City: Essex Junction
  • Number of Workers: 60
  • WARN Received Date: 09/30/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 38 River Road, Essex Junction, Vermont 05452

• HP Hood

  • City: Barre
  • Number of Workers: 70
  • WARN Received Date: 09/24/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 219 Allen Street, Barre, Vermont 05641

• University of Vermont Health Network

  • City: Burlington
  • Number of Workers: 60
  • WARN Received Date: 07/29/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 462 Shelburne Road, Burlington, Vermont 05401

• America's Gardening Resources Inc., dba Gardener's Supply

  • City: Burlington
  • Number of Workers: 60
  • WARN Received Date: 07/24/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 128 Intervale Road, Burlington, Vermont 05401

• The Orvis Company

  • City: Arlington
  • Number of Workers: 56
  • WARN Received Date: 06/18/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 178 Conservation Way, Arlington, Vermont 05250

• FedEx Corporation

  • City: Williston
  • Number of Workers: 55
  • WARN Received Date: 04/30/2025
  • Industry:
  • Notes: 921 Marshall Ave, Williston, Vermont 05495

"Our future is not in the print industry but in semiconductors".

Kind of saying the quiet part out loud there.

A number of industries relying on in-person interaction and customers have faced steep declines in employment, a new U.S. Census Bureau report has found.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-industries-that-have-suffered-worst-job-losses-11296028

In 2025, over 17,000 jobs were cut across television, film, broadcast, news and streaming in the first 11 months of the year. This figure was up 18% from last year, continuing a trend from the past few years as the industry has wrestled with consolidation and other pressures like the double strikes in 2023.

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/entertainment-and-media-layoffs-up-18-with-over-17000-jobs-slashed-in-2025,259407

Recent layoffs at McKinsey have sparked a broader conversation about the state of the consulting industry. As one of the world’s most influential consulting firms trims its workforce, analysts are questioning whether this move reflects internal restructuring or a sign of slowing demand across the sector. Many are now watching to see if other consulting firms will follow with similar job cuts.

This company has lost there way it’s a good ole boys club they spend thousands on meetings that have no relevance just a big ole party and in same breath bi--h about a couple thousand dollars needed to keep operations going they do not upgrade there equipment are bring anything innovative into the industry they have lost hundreds if not thousands of years experience in the last few years due to cuts but keep top loading the boys club it won’t be long before they are irrelevant mark these words

just love seeing all the Linkedin posting of the various groups getting together for "end of year" celebrations , congratulating each other on such a great year, in the midst of continual layoffs. Still see Kate talking about "shaking" up industry..... hard to do that when you continue to lose money. Also good to see KJ, Stansbury, Tzetiel and some of the other higher ups reflect on a "job well done" and talking about all in, while the "no more" Lumen humans that were cut loose wonder how they will get through the holidays .... only real winner in all this is Brene' Brown, who continues to get rich off the company.

During last 20 years- since 2005, the usa has lost more than one third of its newspapers & three quarters of its newspaper journalism jobs

I have a gut feeling that we'll have difficult time recovering. The whole industry. I have 30 years of experience and I saw a ton of change, a ton of challenging, pivoting, reinventing. But now it feels different, Hollywood is in a complete disaray and thi stime it feels there is no recovery.

EVs are now 10 percent of new car sales in the states, what will this industry be in 15 years will it end up like coal?

But the whole industry is turning upside down due to tech and ai and some new sofware, so less work is required. It's not good that we are losing good jobs because of tech and this affects all companies in this space regardless of size and location, not only Higginbotham.

Is it bleak across the board or are there pockets of good somewhere?

Within the sales organization, many highly talented individuals have been let go — notably Account Executives and Industry Experts. A few years ago, in EMEA, I had the opportunity to review several account plans in sectors like Telco, Aerospace, and Automotive. I still remember exceptional strategic thinking that went into our plans for Vodafone or Airbus. Professionals who knew their clients deeply and instinctively were on command. The depth, creativity, and relevance of our strategies for complex industries were truly outstanding — second to none ! . And now, all those great people are gone. Brilliant, sharp and fast minds all fired ! Dead weights and slackers, all rewarded ! Deadly politics at play.