Employee morale is at an all-time low. The results of the Employee Survey:
The recent events show that management doesn't give a care about employees. In hindsight the employee survey was a waste of time and money. There are problems at all levels of the company. Teradata cannot survive as it is today with the current leadership.
A good post from @122FlOzy-2xds.
One Marketing employee was fired for asking her direct reports what they wrote about her on the "confidential" survey. Wonder how many others will be smarter and sneakier about punishing anyone who responded honestly.
TDC needs new leadership. Somehow I hope it will be taken private/will be acquired by private equity or another tech company, which can put in new leadership and offer a more long-term perspective for developing the business. The underlying technology is still quite good, with an established customer base, but one gets the impression that TDC is primarily run for the benefit of overbearing sales/marketing d—s ('The Winners Circle') and a small clique around the management and board, with little knowledge of technology in general. The engineers and consultants in the field seem to be of no or little importance to the upper management and sales/marketing.
Surveys used for more than just HR box ticking. A ‘confidential’ one completed even before the Oliver mess changed my trajectory at TD.
How can you possible not know that employee surveys are done simply to check an HR box. They are not used for anything other than that.
I kept all my responses from the survey. Even shared them with a few associates. Here is my response to the last survey question. I'm pretty sure it sealed my fate.
What else is on your mind?
I think I've expressed enough in the comments above regarding overall direction and confidence in the viability of TD. One thing I look for in any ELT is their ability to present themselves in an honest way. Oliver sort of gets it although I don't think he was the right choice for a CEO. And if you truly want to 'stop the lay-offs' Oliver, convey that message to your CFO and the rest of his organization
Mark C, our CFO, needs to just come out and say that his and Scott Matey's objective this year is to get rid of the consulting practice (and you're both achieving that objective very well). Scott, Mark just be honest about what is going on. You can't increase cost rates by 25 - 50% with no warning to the account teams and then pretend that this is realistic. You can't pretend that consulting is a valuable asset to TD when the compensation plans for the AEs provides 10 times the commission for an ARR sale versus a consulting sale.
One final observation of this whole process. I find it odious to the point of being almost unethical to receive constant reminders from my immediate management to complete the survey so they can 'check my name off the list'. This approach is something I'd expect to see in Vladimir Putin's Russia, not a company headquartered in California. The fact that we are all being monitored in terms of our participation raises doubt in my mind that this survey is truly anonymous. So be it. You have my responses and I'll trust that they do remain anonymous however, I'll also be keeping a set of them for use in any immediate future HR actions against me.
According to some in IT, the LT team requested and was trying to manage the "The Forum" inputs, controlling the message. Control the media... Control the world.
The Employee Survey was a lie. It was used not to get feedback, but to identify "malcontents". Management knew who wrote what and used it when the downturn happened to eliminate those in disagreement with their incompetence, like all scared and petty dictators do. Perhaps, listening to those malcontents would have produced better results???
@125CIJdk-sev , is this a quote from the movie "Taken" with Liam Neesom? Dirty trolling...dirty, dirty trolling....
Someone for sure is deleting certain posts after the posts were already visible. Would not be surprised if it is indeed someone in the chief of staff role. Beware!
Watch out, because 'Brian' will find you here with posts like that......
He doesn't know who you are. He doesn't know what you want...
(despite all the surveys and comments - just quit with the feedback, already, if you don't like it you can leave).
If you're looking for action on finding good LT staff, he can tell you he doesn't have money (or any ideas)... but what he does have is a very particular set of skills. Skills he has acquired over a very long career. Skills that make him a nightmare for people like you (and all of the company for that matter).
If you let this issue go now, that will be the end of it - he will not look for you in meetings, he will not pursue you for quotes about id–ts.....
But if you don't, he will look for you, he will find you... and he will RIF you.