Thread regarding Open Text Corp. layoffs

@jq He just said something like f*** that and the feed got dropped - he apologized the first time - I remember having an open mouth moment - was so funny!

Another one bites the dust!

You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'
You keep losing when you oughta not bet
You keep samin' when you oughta be a'changin'
What's right is right but you ain't been right yet
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

Corporate Stockholm Syndrome

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-time-crunch/201403/corporate-stockholm-syndrome/amp

Doesn't bootlicking normally end when the boots have been expelled from the room?

The question around the Memory Book is why? It is the brainchild of Sandy Ono. Why does Sandy want this ? Surely the millionaire Mark B has no interest in some sentimental book. And Sandy is motivated by power + compensation. Is this the only way she could come up with to try (desperately) to network her way through Mark into a new job when she is fired by the new CEO?

@jq Max Tegmark was warning about the dangers of AI.

@js You’re overlooking that Mark cut numerous jobs globally (often referred to as "the rest of the world" outside India). Would you rather sacrifice those jobs to ensure people in India have food on the table?

@js Nobody is forcing to come here and read. Go police your own behavior, you insufferable moralizing scold.

What is with all the hateful comments - personal, disgusting comments about humans we work with, or entire nations (India)? You don't have to agree with MarkB's style of management, but to call out physical characteristics of people to chide them reflects poorly on the person making the comments. And India... ya, outsourcing jobs, particularly the way its done at OT is poorly done - but the people in India are just trying to keep a job to put food on the table, you know? Trump style politics leaking into this forum is gross.

My first memory of Mark:

Shortly after MF acquisition, he hosted a interview of Max Tegmark, a celebrity physicist. Usually, I avoid speeches by this type, but I thought I would try it as I watch these "physics for dummies" shows myself. Anyway, it became clear within a few minutes that MB was an insufferable prk who knew everything, loved to hear himself speak, and thought too highly of himself. Everything about him oozed sleazy aho__. It was at that point I was seriously concerned about the future at OTEX. It was very disturbing. Unlike MB, all previous CEOs I had encountered in my career had some skills at not being repulsive. With MB, his Jabba-like appearance, and perpetual smirk shows that appearance sometimes correlates with behavior.

Anyway, I had to stop watching because he was so disgusting. Unfortunately, I missed some kind of meltdown from MB apparently triggered when Tegmark said something off-script. All traces of the video were removed and the next day MB sent out memos disavowing something vague, like "that's not who we are".

I never figured out what Tegmark said. Does anyone know?

Surely he could micro manage his memory book… he wrote a few “books” um ok ChatGPT PDFs which he tried to charge for. What a weird man.

Everyone here should collect every article about every layoff during his tenure and completely fill her inbox with it. Include the total count of layoffs in the subject line.

@ab Poised & polished 😂🤣.
Fine blade edition. 😂

@Sandy, you don't need a memory book. Our memories of Mark are all etched here. All the uncertainty, fears, anguish, loss, stress and frustration from the layoffs.

mark,

You are living proof that failure can somehow hold a job. Every word you speak is an insult to oxygen, every decision you make is a disaster in slow motion. If incompetence were an Olympic sport, you’d not only compete — you’d redefine the record books.

Your presence is like a virus in any room: draining, contagious, and unwanted. People don’t respect you; they endure you. The only skill you’ve mastered is the art of being a burden — on your team, your company, and probably everyone unfortunate enough to know you.

You strut around like a leader, but the only thing you lead is a parade of disappointment. Your “contributions” are indistinguishable from mistakes, and your excuses are the only thing you produce in abundance. If mediocrity had a mascot, it would be you in a cheap suit, rehearsing buzzwords like they might magically mask the void where your competence should be.

Here’s the truth: you’re not feared, respected, or admired. You’re pitied. And the fact that you don’t even realize it makes you not just pathetic, but laughable.

So keep talking, Mr Z. Keep pretending. Because deep down, everyone already knows: you are nothing, and nothing is exactly what you’ll be remembered for.

Mark, a donation has been made in your name to the human fund. ++

Can we sign it with our names ++

That rotund re--rd needs to be memory holed. And hopefully Sandy will soon follow him into oblivion.

You want memories? I'll give you memories:

• Remember when Mark said he was going to run the Tokyo marathon, but to the best of my knowledge, never did?
• Remember when he said we could decide to work in office or at home (we even filled out forms) then said we had to return to office, and then said he never said we'd have choice?
• Remember all the hard working, full of historical knowledge and dedicated to their jobs people were laid off?

I seem to remember lies and deflection instead of admission of mistakes, change in policies or taking any responsibility for the mess he created.

Mark can tour with Kamala. How I lost billions of dollars and f'd my followers.

Continuance of wrong priorities and focus. Still looking at the sad past but unable to learn from it. Should be the book of sorrows instead.

@ab Sandy, what are you doing here?

@ab 😂🤣😅😆😆😆

@a2 what will he really do with it anyway? Coaster, paperweight lol. Not like he would send a thank you note to OT on x or LinkedIn.

I was so tempted to react to the email with the laugh emoji in Outlook

I’d be happy to help in adding a valuable page in this awesome Memory- Book, which is a fantastic idea, underpinning and giving testimony & credit to his extremely smart decisions, his thoughtfulness, his listening and dialoge-skills, his outstanding excellence in Leadership and for sure his deep care for his employees he valued so much and treated like his Family with deep and unlimited empathy. Respect as corner stone and grace as guiding principles of good conduct and eye-level relationships.
A masterclass on laser sharp focus & unparalleled excellence in all domains.
A true national treasure, I would even say a genius, a philanthrop, a true citizen of the world and a friend of human mankind.
It is such a pitty that the tenure ended so early, I’m fully confident - many great projects sure yet to come & they will materialize soon!
Farewell & Thank you so much for the outstanding guidance & leadership!

Sandy has always been way in over her head in this C Suite role, and she is painfully aware of that. She remained in the job because of Mark - she did not challenge him and she played the gimmicky, giggly, cheerleader role that he created for her. Now she is desperate. She absolutely recognizes that she will not be part of the new CEO regimen, and neither will Todd C, since as the duo of marketing + sales oversight, they failed.

She is survival savvy though, in the way that people who live a lifetime of being in over their heads learn how to navigate. She recognizes that Mark still has insider relationships with the board and that inis the board that is running the company right now. Playing nice with Mark is her hope that maybe he will support her in landing somewhere else or find favor with the new CEO.

Have seen Sandy in action outside of the cleaned up corporate messaging and cheerleader routines she uses during all hands and events, and she is very limited in her understanding of business models. She has always understood that no one would challenge her incompetence because of her connection and protection from Mark, but now she is suddenly in the limelight. People are asking, "what role did marketing play in the OpenText 's Failure To Thrive"?

The new CEO will be here in November. The plan is that the second half of the fiscal year will including the exiting of Sandy, Todd Cione, some SVPs, and over the course of the second half the dismantling and replacement of the VP teams Todd built with his cronies.

Also, one business unit has a potential buyer. That rate at which two additional BU are sold is based on buyer interest. The board has been engaged with a firm supporting divestitures for well over a year.

Bowing and gesticulating is the way of the parasite, the way of the bootlicking stooge.

Or maybe Sandy can ask the tens of thousands of people he had to lay off over the years because of the horrible management decisions he continually made, for their memories.
God forbid he take responsibility and cut his own salary and that of the Board and ELT to save a few jobs. Instead he laughed all the way to the bank while he walked out the door with much more than 10 weeks severance.
Sandy, the man was fired for years of incompetence which you enabled and continue to do so with your 'Memory Book'.
Maybe put the memory book on this site, so she can get a taste of what folks really think about his "accomplishments".

Couldn’t she have accomplished this without informing everyone????? How much is this going to cost (people’s time and product cost?). Ge-z the salt stings!