#it

Or it is still a piece of garbage?

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.

good luck accessing anything this month..

In this thread we talk about how Corpo is spying on you. I'll start:

• FortiClient
• SentinelOne
• SentinelOne plugin for browsers
• ZScaler (even when it's Off) - fun fact, this website is banned!
• LinkedIn "compliance" - yes, they're going through the information on the LinkedIn profiles - both FTE and Contractors

so far so good today. but... are we just left for latter and will there be a massive cut within these groups as well? i kind of have a feeling that we have been sloted for a later cut but i am basing this only on my personal gut feeling and i do not have any insder information. i was talking to one director level person and she thinks that we'll be fine but i am unsure if i should trust this. i am not too concerned but given how crazy all of this i'd say anything is possible.

In the never-ending pursuit of saving money, the IT department has lost two more critical employees in favor of steering more work to the offshore folks. Best of luck communicating with FSC and getting any help at all now. The IT group was already operating on a skeleton crew. Not sure what Follett leadership is doing but they've managed to confuse everyone on the company's future.

How come no one is talking about the recent IT layoffs?

For the stockholders!!! TI has performed an almost annual Disaster Recovery exercise to practice recovering their Major Data Centers in the event of a catastrophe (eg, Tornado in Lewisville, Tx / Fire / Major Infra collapse etc). This year (2025), after cutting their IT service staffing to the bare bones in capability, they had to postpone their DR exercise because there were not enough personnel available to hold the activity. If they cannot do a practice exercise, how are they going to recover from a real disaster?

Typically logging into the Windows work profile does the trick, but today there was an extra step to log into Outlook. A few others mentioned this as well, but it didn’t happen to every person on our team.

This is the easy cut, the next phase will be in tech. Target plans to outsource all of tech, engineering, and security, what does not get moved to India will be outsourced to a contract here in the US. So this is just the start, pretty much everyone in IT in MN will eventually loos their jobs.

I understand we should not have personal documents on work laptop but if you have them, how are you transferring them? Is email the best way to go

I sent several legitimate personal documents to my own email today and noticed something in my Mac Finder under “locations” I’ve never seen before.

Under iCloud Drive and OneDrive, there was a network icon titled “my first name” in all lowercase

Spooky

Does anyone else think it absolutely su-ks? Seems like it is always down.

With One Allstate looming are they getting absorbed? I heard rumors about them being brought over.

Hi! I found my old laptop from this company laying around in the basement. What should I do with it? I'm sure they've written it off as a loss at this point, but not sure what else I can do with it either. It's company locked but working just fine.

Has anyone nothing a horrible smell on all floors in Alpharetta..? It’s really distracting but especially the second and fourth floor. Maybe because that’s tech and IT and the people are overworked? It’s a mix of body odor and unwashed clothes. Very distracting and I’m thinking they just don’t have time or energy to bathe daily or laundry. Idk but I want to work home so bad the smell is extremely distracting from work and I often go to break room or work on patio just to get away.

3.7% of the group

Does anyone know if L3Harris is planning to outsource the rest of their IT infrastructure/departments to InfoSys and HCL once they take over from Accenture?

Overheard in office
Managers and directors are preparing list
Any other info

Did anyone else lose access to Slack tonight? I was logged out and can’t log back in

Just curious, did the AWS outage on 10/20 affect any of Teradata's customers?

What happens to our laptops if we are laid off? Do we mail them back?

About 10 years ago we launched 2 new data centers. When JF took over as a CEO, I heard someone in IT saying JF wants everything to go to external cloud.

In light of today’s AWS outage, what do IT people think of JF’s view and the danger of external cloud service?

Are we still using the 2 data centers?

Received a townhall invitation from our division that there will be changes to API structure. Did anyone hear anything?

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and remote start is dead for all cars which have it.

who needs redundant systems?

My laptop is so slow ALL THE TIME and WF makes it so difficult to get a new or better one. What laptop model do you have and does it work? Any tips?

Can someone in IT who's been here a long time explain what the problem really is in your opinion and if there's a way out of our current problematic situation or is it a lost cause. I'm genuinely curious. I've heard some takes but looking for a more convincing answer.

any insight on the salesforce issue with no new patients loading?

Marriott is being hush hush about exactly how many, but HUGE cuts are happening. Notifications to those affected this week, new postings this month, and those that don't get offers are out Jan 2. An entire IT department is going from 40+ to 4, North America reservation centers closing and consolidating leadership, HR, and support teams, support above center is being gutted. Not Mr. Marriott's vision at all. 😔

Has anyone heard about how IT is impacted?
If so, what kind of changes (teams hit, roles affected) and which side?

Just look at the sheer volume of IT GR10s + with their report or dashboard’s broken with bad data asking some poor Engineer about their wrong data. What a waste of time. Why are these people employed? LBT fixed nothing

I was rif last year - no complaints about my package - about the only thing that went smooth (I talked to an hr contact based in the U.S. - they exist!)

Contacted out of the blue by a legal group regarding discrimination in i.t., but no clue how they got my information. Has anybody else been contacted?

The new leadership has no clue what they are doing and destroyed the department. Hiring all mid-level execs and firing the workers. This week they are laying off 125ish people and told all IT to stay home until you are told if you have a job. What courage.

How's IT impacted?

Stupid enough to this India teams can do all the work. Good luck

IT has so many departments and similar functions. IT is a service, why not eliminate most of them by contractors and real IT companies. So many IT workers looking for work with AI so the pay and market availability is now a great time to lower our cost.

1. Cost Savings
2. Access to Expertise and Technology
3. Focus on Core Business
4. Scalability and Flexibility
   5 24/7 Support and Reliability
5. Risk Management

Keep the chemical engineers and people in the field paid well. They are out in refineries and terminals in harsh conditions. Why pay them the same?
Most of them are useless and over paid and couldn’t get another job in the market.
John Deere man look into IT please!!!!!!
So many Losers!!!!

What’s the word on the street?

Kind of sus that they are moving servers from Melville to Ashburn this weekend?

And it's so hard to get jobs in the USA. Work is being sent offshore left and right. same at AJG too

To make America great again!

As of yesterday, Emerson has outsourced all user IT support services to a third-party company based in India.