Does anyone actually get anything out of this other than disgust and insult?
This has to be one of the most bizarre corporate nonsense campaigns I have seen across at least 7 employers.
Is anyone following this directive?:
" And don’t forget to share your Career Week experience on Viva Engage with the hashtag #CareerWeek2026 - let’s spotlight the innovation and energy of our office! "
My office is still 90% empty, with no innovation or energy.
Us peasants are getting more educated and moving to greener pastures. People in power are really just minions hoping things will turn around at OpenText without exerting any energy or having any plan. They want to hear things are working and hoping people drink the Kool-aid believing future hype. And they want you to think there is a career path but and there may be but don’t ask for a raise. Money is only for the ELT and their cronies.
Just months after being fired from OpenText, on December 3, 2025, Mark Barrenechea was appointed to the Board of Directors of SentinelOne (a major cybersecurity firm).
For attending a few meetings a year, SentinelOne gave him a $400,000 initial equity grant, a $225,000 annual equity grant, and a $50,000 cash retainer.
Let this sink in: Mark Barrenechea bought Micro Focus for $5.8 billion, crippled OpenText with debt, starved the R&D teams, fired the institutional knowledge, and then missed his earnings targets.
His consequence: ~$20M+ in exit compensation and a new cushy Board seat in cybersecurity.
The employees' consequence: 1,600+ layoffs, mandatory "AI training" videos, and North American reps being fired to be replaced by "Service Aviator" bots to save the company money.
The shareholders' consequence: Trapped in a $25 stock, hoping a 4% dividend makes up for the company selling off its best parts (like Vertica) for pennies on the dollar to pay off MB's debt.
The game is rigged to ensure the architects of the disaster are the only ones who walk away whole.
It's right in line with having to fill out carreer development plans, where they want to trap you into inventing some insecurity or imply that you need to improve in some area.
Like they are actually going to reward hard workers anyway...
FU_K All of them!
The road to nowhere. The AI theme has been regurgitated. It is just a checkbox. Employees are not getting access to the real tools that can make a difference.
What nobody mentions is that the AI that we use is not agentic, so it is not learning anything from us. I need to describe the previous sessions in order to get meaningful answers.
Total waste of time!!!
Career week and Hack week both straight off the pages of a Dilbert comic strip
OpenText career planning is strictly performative.
@a2 Yeah as someone who bit the bullet and learned about AI...
Vast majority of what I've seen is incredibly vague 'we want you to sell each other out for optimizations/layoffs. You need to give us and your managers ideas.' One session came close and mentioned a persona bot. Honestly good for them, those could help field questions, but no agentic AI access. But other than that it looks like OT outside of engineering are hoping adoption is natural. And it's probably not. Engineering probably have more explicit use requests than most of OT.
I don't get the game plan - the people that actually want to be in office want their connection time. They're not going to actively risk selling out themselves, their friends, or anyone else they use to waste time at the office. If that does happen, what's stopping them from shutting down or fearing for their own seat next. The people who would likely want to cut out humans are the people who are now more tired from not wanting RTO. The teams that are already lean can maybe benefit but that means if they need more human hands that's getting ignored. But if they really are drowning and tired they're going to prioritize staying afloat.
We want you do xyz, organically, and save OT mthe, in exchange for a raise budget that has zero guarantees. Oh and your optimizations can make you redundant if they're good enough to get a cheaper replacement.
No thx, I'm good man. I will show you what I can do only if explicitly asked like it's some Fae rules.
Supposedly, we can develop ourselves with little to no support. Considering many of us are facing uncertainty with the RTO mandate, one wonders just how out of touch our ‘leaders’ are…