There has been a noticeable and disappointing shift in leadership culture within the Quality department, moving away from collaborative corporate values and toward an authoritarian, military-style command-and-control structure. A prime example is the... — read more
Does the Global Employee Survey really result in real change?
It seems that the same concerns are brought up every year, lack of career development, poor communication, insufficient tools and equipment, but no measurable progress in any of these areas is ever really made. Has anyone ever seen any meaningful... — read more
Securities Class Action Lawsuits
It is difficult to maintain confidence in the current Light & Wonder executive leadership, particularly as their transition from Aristocrat has been overshadowed by a perceived lack of transparency. The decision to displace established leaders in... — read more
What is going on!!
I wanted to share a concern that was recently brought to my attention. I spoke with someone who said they had conversations with people at Light & Wonder, and they described a perception that certain upper management employees are highly compensated... — read more
Bob Conover
Gone are the days of corporate leaders like him. Sad
How likely is it that these layoffs aren't the end of it?
Leadership seems he-l-bent on cost-cutting. But there's always a breaking point.
Layoffs have started
Layoffs have started at LnW. Should be minimal at this point.
Exodus of iGaming Executives
There seems to be an exodus of iGaming executives leaving in the last several months. Is this part of the business restructuring or is Dylan at Aristocrat Interactive poaching execs from his old team?
This company has seen its best days
From here, it’s only going down. Everything is changing so fast, and we’re nowhere near keeping up. If you’re smart, you’re already hunting for a new opportunity, because waiting around is just going to mean going down with this ship. At this point... — read more
Forcing onsite to reduce headcount?
Seems like that’s the plan
Do you see the writing on the wall?
The nasdaq delisting is first step in moving it all to OZ. Then more fun,,,, What will the name be? Aristofun? Lightcrat?
JOTD
So is JOTD going to be taken out of market? Is this just like DT?
LnW Michigan shutdown
100 people let go by LnW in Michigan, and the entire facility shut down.... anything else to come?
Layoffs 2025
Any news regarding the email we all got from the boss?
More litigation!
LnW have the current Dragon Train litigation to contend with (both in the US & Australia) and now this new Anti-trust litigation regarding their table games products. What's next? Class action suits due to the fiasco caused by the crash to the share... — read more
Roadmap 2025
The sh-t show has only just begun!
You get what you pay for
Not sure if the enablers of The Angel Of D#$th and Skipper Schneider (firing internal competition and expanding offshore) are realizing that their cronyism is resulting in a flawed business model hench the spike in originating field issues developed... — read more
Napoleon Complex CTO playing "See The Monkey"
Wittle Victor B playing the blame game on departments that failured under his leadership the past few years. Keep playing that Aristocrat card Napoleon.
Run for the hills, terrible environment now
I’m so incredibly sad to see a good company I’ve dedicated a lot of my career towards go completely down the drain. Starting from the top, Matt W. and all these ex Aristocrat execs are just plain incompetent. Lots of ego st-----g going on, LnW is... — read more
The Angel strikes again
The self proclaimed Angel of De@th (Never Navin) strikes again. Aristocrat 3 step strategy: Infiltrait competitor Force leaders out to cause fear and distruption Sink competitor
Ge-z I thought perelman was bad
These clowns running this now are hellbent on destroying what was once a great company. What an obtuse board of directors. India?? Lol
Layoffs
Did they layoff staff this week?
Is this true?
More layoffs today
The worst company I've worked for
I can't wait to leave because it's become unbearable here. Can the atmosphere here be any worse than it is right now?
LnW to be renamed Studio X
Viewed LnW G2E product demo video. Sounds like Nathan really has a ha---n for Studio X. Yeah we know you and studio head are both from Aristocrat. Seems like more silos are being created than removed with Aristocrat Silo-bhan at the helm. Cut the... — read more
Field Service letting go of union supporters
Las Vegas totalitarian field service management (Bally) slowly getting rid of those that were in support of unionizing Las Vegas field service technicians. Such poor treatment of the folks that are the literal face of the company to our biggest... — read more
Move on
If you parted ways with WMS/Bally/Shufffle/SG/L&W for various reaons good luck to you. Hopefully you are fulfilling your career plans in your new role. Leave all that baggage, stress, comments and criticism behind as you embark on your nect career... — read more
Silo-bhan is forcing out industry leaders to replace with her followers
Rob B, one of the greatest leaders in our industry, is again being forced out by threatened so called leaders as they move in their followers. Get it right Silo-bhan, he gave us over 13 years of dedicate, not 3 years. Way to minimize that part. ... — read more
Employee walked this week due to low pay
We had an employee leave this week due to not being paid market rate for his position (a formal request for a pay raise was denied). His existing salary (with bonus included) was $25K beneath the new hire ceiling pay (minus bonus) for the same... — read more
Slot/Shuffler manufacturing moving to Mexico
Heard a rumor that they are moving slot/shuffler manufacturing to Aguascalientes Mexico. Not sure if it’s slots, shufflers or both. Anyone else catch wind of this?
Top management needs to standardize summer hours across the entire company
Since around 2017 my department has been requiring employees "make up" summer hours by either coming in late or showing up early on other days of the week. I assume this is because our work must be billed to projects/departments and taking off early... — read more
Hiring Steve Beason back to SG was a mistake
I'm not exactly sure what the logic was in hiring Beason back to SG as the Digital/Sports Betting President. There was a reason he was laid off in the Nov '16 purges: he did next-to-nothing as the CTO/CIO. I worked in IT during the time he was here... — read more
Modern corporate philosophy
Just wondering. Do employees understand what “shareholder value” really means? It means big options and bonuses for execs off the back of employees,,, that actually do the work that drives revenue for the company. This is not just an SG/LNW... — read more
Don't trust your boss when he says he's got your back
He doesn't. He'll be more than happy to stab you in the back if it'll benefit him in any way or make him look good. Learn from my mistake.
Rarely can anyone take them seriously
With such wrong moves, it is hardly possible to take our leadership seriously anymore. I haven't taken any of them seriously in a long time but I'm wondering if the clients and competitors don't take them seriously anymore either? Crucial issues are... — read more
It's a balancing act
Not all who were let go were underperformers: For every older employee let go for legit reasons there is a younger employee let go to balance-out the age to protect against age-discrimination lawsuits, similarly if there were too many young... — read more
New name, new changes
With the new name Why doesn't the company make some drastic changes, I think you need to reorganize, get rid of some of the old Bally people, Merge product management and project management together, is project management does absolutely nothing and... — read more
Light & Wonder
Do they think it’s April 1st instead of March 1st? Has to be a joke right? Sounds like a line of candles at Bath & Body Works.
What is SG’s new name?
Anyone know what they changed their name to?