Given that Avaya is, in my opinion, in a downward spiral, I'm rapidly losing hope that anyone talented has any future here, but in general, I don't believe this company has a bright future either.
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Instead of Avaya wasting $1B purchasing Nortel in 2009, they should have invested the money in product R&D/cloud. Let's face it, the inherited Nortel base didn't improve Avaya's fortunes. If anything it's held Avaya back by continuing costly Nortel support until 2019... What a waste of money and opportunity (especially the purchase of Nortel's data networking portfolio. Avaya never learn from past acquisition mistakes... Shameful mis-management. Recall submitting UC/CC proposals to customers (using Cisco networking) with the mandatory attach Nortel data network proposal. Never managed to displace Cisco from the account! Never ending source of personal and company embarassment.
Avaya has been a dead company walking since it acquired Nortel in 2009. The NES acquisition should have propelled Avaya on a new upward trajectory. Instead, it was poorly managed (as are many Avaya acquisitions) and an epic fail; simply accelerating Avaya's downward death spiral. Competing product lines and a pointless waste of $ acquiring the NES data products (Avaya never learn they can't compete in the data networking market, no matter how 'superior' or patented their product set!).
At the time, Avaya was totally incapable of standing a chance to capitalise on the Nortel purchase. Even today (13 years later), Avaya have failed to retain/churn their Nortel base to justify the expense of supporting this legacy base for so long.
I never understand when people say they are waiting for a severance, It is 4 weeks at best, which is nothing.
Remember….the best time to look for a job is when you have a job!!
No, we just waiting for a severance check hopefully before thanks giving, we are all quiet quitting, this company is the joke of the communications industry 😀
Agree 100%