#vp

Our VP ..HT.. announced he is leaving. I was told he's an ahole but even he couldn't put up with the bigger ahole that's now his Boss. Yes Sh--Charity managed to scare away even Thakkar. Rumour has it they had a falling out. Pure SH-TSHOW!

Have you heard any news/rumor?

When and who will make the list this time? VP+?

I complained to my production VP that I never get a response from SH on any email or voice message I've sent him, even though I get 1,2 and even t3 messages somedays from him asking for all sorts of information that still isn't in salesforce. he never responds to any commission adjustments either, that require his level approvals. My VP laughed and said SH doesn't respond to any VP emails either.

Can we hire some more vice presidents? The more vice presidents we hire, the more Expand has to pay the worker bees to put up with the extra BS. Then we can get a raise! In reality, we challenge the vice presidents to justify their salaries and bonuses to the stock holders. We know they are worthless from the inside view of the company. Oh, they will claim the worker bees' accomplishments, but we know who really gets the work done around here. And we don't have skeletons on our closet.

Anyone know what’s going on?

Things used to get done in hours it was the gold standard of support. The VP has no clue. The Director who knew what to do left and won’t even answer questions she directs us to the new leadership. You put people over the teams that are not qualified. The people left behind are leaving. Tickets take days across all support. Give us our access back. The coe for mobility just died next to the wireline support.

No news so far but folks are getting meetings from their manager/skip manager etc. Any VP IC - any layoff impact you faced?

Following up on a previous post about Directors being required to list what they do to earn their paychecks. Anyone heard anything new on this? "Was asked to put in four bullets what my role is with metrics supporting it? Can’t say “Oversees” or anything high level. Is Director level being hit next?"

How is CS doing in greater china? Insiders tell me she’s jealous she didn’t get the VP of EMEA and is nearly ready to give up already.

Thoughts?

Is APLA sticking around after 1 June? I also heard not.

Have we figured how to increase sales? If not, no matter what you do (kick off lowly employees to save some change), wall street will keep shorting they will bring PE to 15 or less.

Cuts done and ac is a vp who reports to a vp who reports to a vp who reports to an evp?
How again are we cutting operating costs in tech????
That’s 4 vp layers in that instance alone, aside from sr director layers…

Can someone explain to me what this team does besides using IBM Watson to monitor use cases and do reporting?

How can you lay off 1400 people and not lay off a single VP in the process. I think that exposes the true purpose of this layoff more than anything else.

No VP and no resilience/reliability…..

Here is what I don’t understand. All reps and managers come on here to complain knowing that with this regime nothing is going to change. Look at the East same d-mb VP and same d-mb senior directors. They are a click. They hire people that will not rat them out or people that will not question their poor leadership. None of them have 1 leadership bone in their bodies. Ask any of them about their plan to lead their teams. It’s all calls and pips and write ups. The funny part is she said on the all managers call you need to inspire your reps. Bit.. you can’t inspire your yourself. If there is any real leadership they would all be gone now. I’ll keep this job till I find something else or better yet I hope I get riffed.

VP's (P4's) are required to give 30 days notice. Not sure if this is 30 calendar days (~4 weeks) or 30 business days (~6 weeks). Can someone clarify?

Good luck!

...ain't nothing "VP"about the salary. How has this company not yet updated salary bands?

It's not 2008 anymore.

CES keeps adding VPs like it’s collecting failed resumes. This is yet another textbook DXC brownfield transformation: hard at work turning CES into a stinking CESS pool.

Why are there so many new Vice President's, we can layoff 1000 employees to hire more and more VPs at 200k a pop.

I've seen posts over the last few days on a particular VP (won't name names here), and then other posts on TPD and Product....is VBG ok? My impression (arms length, to be fair) has been that VBG had more things to sell and more upside. Am I just overreacting to a few posts here?

Any idea if the VPs were laid off if they will cut into their staff?

Massive reduction in force aligned for June under the code "restructuring". Starting July, company will operate under a completely new model. Won't get it into it here, but huge paring of middle managers (team leaders) and entire functions run under separate teams eliminated. 15 - 20 percent of workforce, to include all levels, VP, directors, IC.

VP said there will be 6 stores closing in the CA region this year. Came down on last STL call. Looking at 3 in the greater LA area, 1 in San Diego and two in northern California. Going to be cutting the stores with the lowest sales volume because they're not meeting sales projections and they're running above cost for labor.

several hours ago our VP in Fusion told it to remaining group of people from NA, IDC, EU locations that it's done and those who are on the call are safe for now.
I've heard of a few such cases where folks were informed by their managers/VPs/SVPs it's finally over. So if you're still here, you made it.

Remember around 2020-21 When a certain VP got fired for letting her son resell Nike shoes in bulk that were purchased on her corporate credit card... I didn't realize she changed her name and is now the CEO of Footlocker. Talk about failing upwards

• Meeting invites are going out Monday (Canada) and Tuesday (U.S.).
• Not sure if this is limited to my GBU or affects everyone at Oracle.
• VPs would have known on Friday...assuming managers get told Monday am or VPs do the work, and then everything is executed

I’d like to keep anonymous, so I’m not going to mention my GBU.

The upcoming restructuring focuses on removing middle management. If the VP layer is cut while the EVP and Senior Directors stay, the total number of Directors will be reduced to flatten the hierarchy.

Is it true, then list is finalized.. layoffs may start from Tuesday

I wish they gave us more notice before this layoff, maybe 6 months. That would give us time to get our affairs in order and enough time to prove our worth to our respective VPs.

Looks like VPs are starting their exits now. We went from a skeleton crew to barely any bones left. Don’t spend that AIP payout because who knows what the next few weeks are going to look like. So long fellow associates who have been here long enough to remember the good old days when we had real leadership and transparency.

Hearing noise about VPs across the company being let go

Hearing that Jeff’s org is going to get hit Tomorrow.

Did anyone start getting 15 mins invite? If yes, then which VP under Jeff Simon?

Anyone have insight to this?

Something big is coming - VPs are doing non-stop meetings.

What do you think? Looks like undeserving people got promoted to VPs. I've found DR in particular to be hollow and self serving. Has provided no direction and is mostly an empty vessel. Thoughts?

Anyone hear anything?

Hardly anyone sticks at the same place.

So a senior vice president takes a leave of absence?! He was a rising star but even he is disenchanted with Phillips 66 and the money is not enough to retain him. That or he was forced out. Who takes a leave of absence at that level?