DFS (dealer financial services) was cut yesterday, moving all the Bellevue team members to Overland park (like anyone would move). More and more finance positions are getting drawn into the new Magenta services center. Nobody in finance is safe anymore.
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Who is responsible for Elevate?
project elevate is a completely sh-t idea. It will be very interesting to see how it fails and our SLT try hard to pivot it to a success in the future all-hands meeting.
this is a great plan to get rid of all the worthless people in Bellevue and Frisco and hire back are esteemed Sprint colleagues who were laid off last year. Excellent plan!
They brought in SAP to try and weave together the multitude of payment systems from all the T-Mobile acquisitions (VoiceStream, SunCom, Western Wireless, Powertel, Omnipoint, Aerial, MetroPCS, and finally Sprint). SAP is/was an abject failure of a software platform.
They've been trying to "Replace" SAP for over 10 years. And, like the software, its failed. Just like Project Elevate will ultimately fail. Why? Because they find issues and create exceptions for the issues rather than FIXING THE PROBLEM.
Project Elevate is transforming finance to be more efficient. It started as just replacing the old SAP system with something newer. Dara evolved it to include "people" which now means moving jobs from Bellevue to Kansas, to a "shared services model". Basically consolidating employees in a pool, in a cheaper area to save a little bit of money.
The guy below is correct- Michael Frankel, who is heading up the finance transformation, shows as a FL-remote employee in outlook. He reports directly to Peter. It is bizarre he's not in OP when that's where the new Magenta service center is. I'm guessing he'll move.
SLT Ashamed? You have to have a conscience to be ashamed. SLT are id--ts.
What's Project Elevate?
Even though they are forcing folks to upend their lives and move to KC, (or lose their jobs), the guy running the service center in OP refuses to move to KC and lives in Florida. Dara is moving back to Seattle. When asked about the hypocrisy of that, her reply was - "life isn't fair". Wow. What impressive leadership. I have never seen a company have their employee positive corporate culture implode so quickly. The SLT should be ashamed.
Who would want to stay in Seattle? Any chance to escape from the expensive, elitist hellhole would be welcomed in an instant. But, I'm not an accountant, so this has no relevance to me.
Project elevate was a disaster from the beginning. I heard that this project is already in the RED and people are trying hard to get it back on track before someone gets fired.