Goodbye after 17 years... Best move I made, it may be your time!?!

I've been reading these threads for quite some time now and there is a lot of truth on this site, and of course a lot BS as well.

What I can tell you from my time at Avaya, what used to be a great company, is no more.

This company has been dismantled by people that have no business in their roles up to the higher ups making poor business decisions and cutting corners anyway they can.

My best advice to anyone still working at Avaya, start looking ASAP, this is a strong job market and eventually this ship will take on too much water to keep up with it's competitors or possibly sink.

If you are a customer reading this, please do yourself and your company a big favor, look at your options before you renew that contract or have plans to upgrade your environment. Think CLOUD!

From there horrible services support model in India, Canada and Argentina, to their onsite field support technicians that know nothing about the products Avaya sells or how to fix them. Customers are being robbed and can't see through the dog and pony show, don't believe me... look a little closer next time... Ask questions.

Avaya for years now has been sub contracting all there remote T2/T3 engineers from Inovasia, they are not even Avaya employees or have a good understanding of what they are supporting, it's quite the smoke show and Avaya has gotten real good at lying to everyone.

I finally realized it wasn't the company I was once was proud being a part of and loved working for. I was tired of lying to our customers and making up excuses at every corner, life's too short to be working for a company that does not acknowledge their hardworking employees anymore.

Horrible health benefits, no raises or bonus for most, they took away our vacations time and 401k match. Ugh... I could go on and on... but at the end of the day, Kevin Kennedy is LOL to the bank since 2009.

Moral of my post, whether you are an employee or a customer... there is life after Avaya, find it sooner than later.

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eventually this ship will take on too much water to keep up with it's competitors or possibly sink.

Geez man, you are about 2 years too late, this ship has not kept up with competitors for years and is already sunk. It just happened so gradually that the workers onboard didn't notice and started thinking that this was normal - no matching retirement plan, no salary increases, bonuses not paid out because the EBCDIC was missed by .025%, etc.

It's a great big beautiful world of opportunity and normal employers out there. Welcome to everyone exiting the Avayca cave of doom and perpetual darkness! Welcome back to a normal life!

I can verify your comments are legit. I was just laid off from Avaya after about 20 years.

I can also verify that it’s a very gloomy atmosphere at Avaya because for the last 18 years every day you don’t know whether you’re going to be laid off or not that’s he culture. Everyone in the company , outside of the executive Circle, is an agreement it’s a very bad atmosphere work in. If they don’t agree they’re lying to you .

We just came out of chapter 11 and went public and the next thing you know they make mass layoffs when the economy is as strong as it’s been in 15 years. Does that signal confidence to you? We could possibly be the strategy for yet another round of layoffs? Again, they’re just struggling trying to figure things out.

And you talked about lying to customers, that occurs all the time . Kind of a joke.

Also there’s no retirement benefits, the 401(k) match s---ed and wages are stagnant.

However, I think getting laid off is a great teachable moment to my children.

I tell them Instead think like entrepreneurs and don’t put your future in the hands of dysfunctional corporation that will just lay you off anyway when you least expect it.

There’s no loyalty from the company to the employees. The employees should not feel any need for loyalty to the company .

As a on-site field support tech I say thank God your gone it that's what you think about your fellow AVAYA team members.

Agree! Got out a few months ago. Sad how mismanagement destroyed the company.

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