Andy will talk about how we need to make our products easier to use, consumer grade, and delight our customers. Then next month he will cut product teams budgets, cut support budget and we will do absolutely nothing to make any small steps to actually make our products easier to use. Repeat the same scenario on the next global call.
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What we didn't hear was that the POLS strategic review was completed & that a sale was imminent even though this question was asked directly.
If any of us can be replaced by an AI bot we will be.
The HR person made sure that she plugged how awesome she is in a corporate meeting which was a grand standing non sequitur.
@1jra+1lDR7lO7 Execs do have a stake— a large one!
It’s just not off of the same playbook as the employees. The PEMCO goes by the way of Tom AP, who if nothing has been quite clear of his accountability to the shareholders and to grow that business— or perhaps sell it if the stock drops like it has today.
Is it void of compassion and decency? Big time, but that’s where we are.
Get out and join a company that actually does what it claims to do— versus Pearson who likes the headlines but whoaaaa Nelly don’t take a look under the hood. You may choke on the toxic fumes!
@1jra+1lDR7lO7 I wonder what Carnegie, Mellons, ww2 dead and all the others who built this one time great country would say about the she/her, he/him personal pronoun rampant use that proliferates in this disaster of a business?
Ladies and gentlemen, we're not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality.
America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions.
Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake.
Today, management has no stake in the company!
You are all being royally screwed over by these bureaucrats, with their steak lunches, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.
The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest.
No news on the strategic review? It has been almost a year! Strategic reviews typically take 30 days because the longer they take, the less accurate the information is. Data xhanges quickly. Seriously, just tell us who is buying us out and if our jobs are being eliminated. They have already butchered numerous departments recently.
Yes, but didn't you hear? We are all sales people now! I thought I was Customer Service in POLS, but nope, I have to sell more. Do i get bonuses too?
That’s exactly what he’ll do. Pearson is in an oligopoly market place where innovation doesn’t matter. Students have to buy our products. Users must use them. There is no incentive to innovate. None.
The cuts will continue. Because behind AB there is a CFO telling him to do it. I have never met a CFO in my life who has said “let’s grow our way out of this problem’”. It’s not gonna happen.
No one of any scale is going to touch this market in terms of disruption. Why would you? You have Bill Gates wanting to give everything away and it’s an easy punching bag of politicians. There is no out. Just continue to bumble along.
No one outside of this tiny business actually cares. The entire industry is the size of a mid size U.S. company.