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Meeting invite today - just me and my boss with title "Org Update"

Anyone else get a weirdly confidential invite to a business update at 4:15?

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to approve nearly 160 staff layoffs in a hectic meeting Thursday that ended just before midnight.

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/12/12/pajaro-valley-school-board-approves-nearly-160-staff-cuts-in-tense-marathon-meeting/

Eating at steakhouses and faking meetings

Since the expanded in office 8 hours mandate has it been harder to plan meetings. Most people I know, including me, have hard start and stops now. Good luck trying to set up a call with india, nyc, mn and az. There is a window of like 3 hours. When they treated us like professionals most of us would take calls before going in to the office or after we got home. No more. When the measurement is time and not quality they get time but not quality.

Anyone got the numbers? One side, both sides? It’s odd they won’t tell anyone in the town meetings.

Looks like I was on one email that was sent on behalf of Phil McKoy. Body of email says note 1 of 4 invites sent. Any reason to be concerned? Are layoffs or a reorg here?

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

What was the point of the meetings today? Nothing new shared. SVP one for downstream had a Q&A for entertainment.

What were some of your favourite quotes? "A Canadian company by and for Canadians" is surely top 3 of the day

Why was Bob Kirby reporting the numbers on the whole business? Is he taking over? Is DV merging with ITS?

I keep getting dragged into so-called alignment meetings that reveal absolutely nothing. Hours upon hours of buzzwords and vague reassurance with no real clarity. It feels like they are delaying bad news and hoping we do not notice how nervous the managers look.

Does anyone have thoughts on the whole One Medicare thing after the meeting today?

Literally he just talked about is life and growing up for a quarterly meeting, seems like she's trying to pass on the crown to him

SAS Cloud seems to run entirely on project managers.

No actual SAS experience in sight, yet somehow they manage to present themselves as experts on absolutely everything.

No wonder the whole place looks like it’s permanently waiting on a meeting about a meeting.

#bootstrappers

Every simple task takes three approvals, two meetings, and one person saying ""this could have been an email""

Just had one of those... it was a meeting about why the last meeting did not achieve what the meeting before that was supposed to fix... You cannot make this stuff up. We are doomed.

Does anyone else have an onsite meeting for Thursday the 4th? Not sure if this is restructuring or what.

Anyone got a 1:1 for tomorrow?

National salary program meeting today, what are the key takeaways?

For those of you in East Coast who never got meeting invite this morning . -
then you are safe until Tuesday Dec 9

I thought managers were supposed to manage, and that all our bloated procedures supposedly served a purpose. Out of all the meetings we had lately, maybe one or two were actually useful, the rest were a complete waste of time. Most of us actually know how to do our jobs. But I guess some managers still need to justify their existence somehow.

I wish I’d recorded our faces while he went on about “dedication” and “hard work.” Even he couldn’t hide that he didn’t believe a single word coming out of his mouth. I honestly don’t get how these corpos still think this kind of theatrics works. Are they really that out of touch? Incredible. And on top of it all, he wasted half an hour of our time.

How are you all maintaining 8 hrs in office ?
Staying 6 to 7 hrs is easily manageable to stay in office.
With early meetings, and again need to login at night to coordinate with offshore, maintaining 8 hrs is stretch.
Is it that mandatory to maintain 8 hrs or 6 to 7 hrs is acceptable?

Does this mean we are safe or we are cooked?

15 minute one on one with my director, a bit outside the 8am - 10am window but they’re in a different timezone than I am.

email from CEO at 7am...
meeting for 1:1 with SD in over an hour...

gonna make me STRESS over what this is about? BRUH

He could not hold his excitement and sent the invite before Dan's email!

Meeting Invites being sent out today. From what im hearing there is going to be a trimming of the fat. RIF's for Christmas!

I'm in corporate out of Basking Ridge. The place has been a ghost town. My boss and teammates have all been distant. I am seeing meetings cancelled left and right.

Serious question. When will the "new normal" start for those that make the first cut?

No comments necessary. Just upvote if true...

Looks like there’s a meeting with a lot of managers at 10 today. I’m going to assume it’s the HR call coaching them on RIFs…

I have meetings tomorrow and need somewhere to work in between meetings while waiting for clients. And of course need to connect to the network.

How often is your manager doing 1:1s

Our weekly team meeting on every Tuesday just got rescheduled to Nov 21st Friday for this week. Maybe they wanna accommodate the Nov 20th layoff day? Not looking good.

Manager meeting tomorrow? Any one know for what ?

Just received a 1:1 with my manager tomorrow. It’s been an honor serving with y’all. You people are the ones who make this company tolerable. Not management.

Why? Why is that needed? Most of those meetings are nothing but people repeating things that were said many, many times before just packaged another way. It's not like something positive or new comes of it. So what's the point, other than to keep useless people busy?

Very vague/confusing meeting name said (Option 3 at the end), so I'm guessing it's not good news.