Thread regarding Open Text Corp. layoffs

@a3 i creampied myself this morning to lube up for EOQ.

@vg sometimes reality is crazier than fiction. Next thing will be AI floppy disks and machine learning punch cards all with dedicated phone lines that when busy will text your Titanium pager.

@d6 omg this is hilarious. A few months ago I saw something about “until OpenText finds a way to put AI on a fax machine, they will not be an AI player” or something along those lines. And now this! Comedy gold.

@dt the "thousand layers of bureaucracy" and the acquisition-heavy playbook are hallmarks of a specific brand of Silicon Valley enterprise management, not a Canadian postal code. The actual work of keeping the "legacy horsesh-t" running is done by teams thousands of miles away who feel like they're just numbers on a spreadsheet in San Mateo by folks on https://www.opentext.com/about/leadership

@a3 It's strange for you to refer to OpenText as Canadian when criticizing management. The company is run by an American ELT in San Mateo, regardless of where their official headquarters resides. I'm not sure it matters where anyone is geographically, but you're about 4000km off in placing blame.

@d6 They are trying so hard it’s a joke. There is no “AI” in their Fax solutions. This is just standard OCR and workflow capabilities that already existed. They just take a buzzword or an acronym and make it sound like is a solution to a problem every customer has (or doesn’t know they have). The problem here is that customers and prospective buyers are smarter than that.

We are now modernizing fax with AI???

https://www.opentext.com/tw/media/guide/the-modern-digital-fax-buyers-guide-en.pdf

@bx totally agree. We are the “Death of Innovation” which leads to talent erosion & low moral made worse by the return to office mandate. All made even worse by leadership disconnect (James is a clueless CEO with the ELT clown show) and ethical & professional burnout.

Our main problem is that the focus is on maintaining ancient acquisitions rather than building anything new. Employees are forced to support "fractured, sh---y acquisitions" (as @a3 stated) that don't work as advertised, leaving us to deal with the fallout from frustrated customers. And the "Empowering People" slogan is seen as a hollow marketing buzzword that ignores the reality of a "soul-su-king" work environment.

@a3’s "roast" is an accurate reflection of the current employee sentiment. We all feel like we are in a "corporate graveyard" and our customers and investors are feeling the same way.

You're new to OT, right? The invitation to submit questions is a sham; not only do they not answer actual employee questions, but they make up their own fake questions to puff up the egos of the executives. Real questions will never get asked, let alone real questions that challenge what they're doing. It's town-hall theatre, not an actual town hall.

OTEX town hall is more scripted than a Biden press conference. Note that they never take live questions.

@OP joking right? You already know that the "questions" have already been decided and cookie cutter responses written.

@a3 Easily one of the best things I've read on this site.

Well done.

Are you stupid or sumpin'?

They filter the questions. None of the serious questions ever get through. It's basically a scripted performance.

Just find another job and quit. There is no future at OT.

They only answer the easy questions...like, "what book are you reading now". Who really asks that? I mean, who really gives an F?

@a3
This was the most accurate and (hilarious) description of OT ever!

I am glad to be out of the OT sh!t show and have never looked back.

Allow me to retort (mod check):

OpenText is the massive, bloated corporate graveyard where innovative software goes to get its fu--ing soul crushed by a thousand layers of enterprise bureaucracy.

They spent decades acquiring every piece of legacy horsesh-t they could find just to trap IT directors in a godda-n labyrinth of integration he-l that never ends.

They laid off all of the original talent and replaced it with clueless, a-s-kissing, micro-managed automatons, who only remain because OT has systematically crushed their self-esteem. These pathetic fu--s actually follow the RTO mandates for he-l's sake.

"AI-ready information" is the most pathetic, buzzword-laden rebranding of a fu--ing file cabinet since Microsoft mandated OneDrive on Windows.

They claim to "eliminate silos" while simultaneously charging customers a king's ransom for every single API call that connects their own fractured, sh---y acquisitions, which NEVER work as advertised.

Only a Canadian multinational could make "Content Management" sound like a godda-n war crime while charging people for the privilege of suffering through it.

They talk about "Empowering people" but their primary business model is being the high-priced digital duct tape that holds together the broken dreams of Fortune 500 middle managers and su-ks the souls of OT's 'human resources' as an afterthought.

The only reason they exist in 2026 is that their contracts are harder to escape than a fu--ing maximum-security prison run by dipsh-t accountants with delusions of competence.

I truly admire how they have managed to turn being the absolute most boring company on the planet into a multi-billion dollar machine for extracting money from the clueless and desperate.

They finally shitcanned Mark the Hutt, only to replace the pompous sh------n with... Ayman? C'mon, WTAF are they thinking?!? Why even bother? Leave the current acting CEO in charge, at least he is cheaper and has a smaller buyout.

Canada's best employer? Kiss my fu--ing a-s, eh!

Enh, questions are curated. Nothing important will make it past that filter. I've tried.

I agree with your sentiment, I just don't think that 'vote harder' solves the problem.

Yeah, non-sequitur, but it applies here.