Regarding Kevin's meeting and the effort he's making for employees. Kevin just sold $1,000,000 worth of stock. Do not trust them. They are trying to keep you productive up until they can discard you.
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@bz re: this started 2 years ago. There is no question. When the announcement was made about Blackbaud India, I clearly spelled out to my peers what this would mean. No one believed me at the time because of the statements made by company officers. The same people seemed shocked because it is now actually coming to fruition.
Getting laid off from BB after 19 years as a Sr. Mgr was the best thing to happen to me 2 1/2 almost 3 years ago. I knew it wasn't going to be a fun time interviewing and getting a new job after so long. But I am glad it happened.
All of these conversations and feelings were had then - but as a mgr who had to riff and riff and riff - until they riffed us - I should've left about 6 years before I got let go. I am in a company that still has the same pressures, but the work environment isn't toxic and soul su-king. There is life afterwards and its good. Hang in there my fellow BB people.
@a9 non competes are often an empty threat, however, given the lack of transparency on severance packages eg future vesting of RSUs, this may be a valid concern.
@bz 100%. Nagarro and Softtek staff, many with extensive application knowledge, were the first victims over the last two years. Now they are targeting Blackbaud staff in the US and UK over the next two years.
@bk You all realize this began two years ago? Start digging the answers are out there.
There is absolutely no way this initiative was undertaken without a target % known.
While I don’t have insights to the one the ELT is using, it is a fairly common model of 60/40 ‘domestic’ vs India, at least in engineering (either dev ops or direct engineering).
@a7 Not being transparent is pi----g a lot of people off. They likely have a percentage of cuts in mind, and that number could be drastic like 30 to 40% of the US employees. Imagine one in three people getting the hammer. Yikes.
For those still employed, it would be best to start looking especially if you have India team members or non US based contractors within or adjacent to your team.
@aa Kevin, is that you?
@a9 settling? Lol where did i say that. I said “support” in qoutes cause it was sarcasm. It’s a corporate worthless show these meetings. They do it to try to appear to be transparent to answer question they will never answer. Corporate america 101
Are other leaders having meetings like this or is it just Kevin?
I think we need to have empathy for everybody who is impacted during this awful transition. Our leaders make a lot of money to have to make these tough decisions, but I’m not sure vilifying Kevin is the way to go.
@a8 You think what they're doing is settling people? The CEO dropped an email saying that there will layoffs of employees who have been loyal to the company and add great value. Then radio silence for over a month besides for these meeting where they provide no new information except that they WILL enforce non-competes.
@a7 Maybe so but when has bb ever been transparent about anything. They aren't going to cause more freakout and lose the resources they need to assist in their transition
@a6 Other companies can and do communicate layoff target percentages, I'm not sure why they think this is impossible to do
@a5 Kevin def lost his cool. I think people keep wanting answers and they just can't and aren't going to give them.
The message is "we are sending jobs to india but we aren't ready and it's a process that will take two years." They don't have the resources hired and are working on it. They aren't sure what that transition will be like cause they are trying to hire the resources. And they are behind
Sure they have metrics and goals around saving X amount of dollars or heads to cut but no company will ever tell you those numbers ever.
The meetings are there to try to address stuff and they are trying to show "support" , i think finally at the end jenn handled it well by saying we just can't and won't disclose that kind of info. Regardless i don't really have sympathy for kevin on his reaction "this is hard for us too" and I am sure it is but that's not the message you give when you get paid the big bucks for these exact situations then lost your cool.
That meeting was such a disaster it was almost funny. They did not share any new meaningful information at all. And then to get upset and turn off the chat because people are asking very reasonable questions?