Thread regarding Sungard Availability Services layoffs

That’s ridiculous .. which center

@S9fiq7y-3etso: "[The layoffs are] all for the sake of diversity. A director actually spun it that way at my location when layoffs happened a few months ago. Yeah, diversity at the expense of ousting US workers.

I'm glad that this business about "diversity" has been mentioned. I had a meeting the other day with my manager, and at one point he suddenly went into this claptrap. Without coming right out and saying it, he was suggesting another layoff was in the works. The company is realigning itself with modern style business practices (so he claims) to achieve "organizational efficiency" and "diversity adherence". I was taken aback with what he said and just sat there listening. He went on and on, pointing out that when customers complain about the quality of IT support in, say India, he just proudly points out that Sungard AS has a diverse workforce with robust support around the world. Somebody in another post mentioned that Kenya is a thriving area for data center outsourcing. Weirdly, that's what my manager got into in his spiel. Sometimes, he said, we got to think outside of the box, and realize that Sungard has the spirit of change, and this is a chance to contribute to fix historical injustices as we expand in other countries like Kenya. Looks like Giggles, Lynch, and Bindford found a new way to put a spin on all the layoffs. Thus the talking points from my manager. I'm glad I'm interviewing at another company because this place is not only dying but wacked out, imploding in its own idiocy with this quality of management.

I'm sure the folks at kickoff are being feed the BS about the deluge of AWS work that's going to walk in the door, suddenly turn the company around and send profits through the roof. i think most Sales teams see though the BS. Never gonna happen!

Meanwhile back at the ranch, layoffs and beatings will continue until morale improves or they run out of NA and UK workers to RIF and move to low-cost, low-quality India.

How’s kickoff going? Any market stimulating new products yet? Same old AWS me too story? Did AB show up? Is the sales performance still on him and if so how is he still employed? Did Andy wag his finger at the salesforce scolding them yet another year? Inquiring minds want to know.

3 rounds of layoffs in 2 weeks - OP on this thread must feel pretty dumb :)

What group? Location?

Sounds like there's a RIF underway today. I know of two people who were notified.

Luckily I got out a while ago and love my new job, once you get away from Sungard AS the dark clouds clear!! I feel sorry for those left, one of the most brain numbing jobs I've ever done.

From what I remember of the Pune team they were pretty useless, neither internal staff or external customers ever had a good word to say about them. You know the saying, pay peanuts......

The facts are plain. Sungard is doing damage control on Glassdoor for a real reason, nobody with talent will go near the place. HR and management have destroyed Sungard, nobody with talent would waste any of their career there. It's a resume negative.

The proof is in the posts, any company with a talent attraction doesn't have to do damage control. It's funny to watch the lame directors and managers try to wiggle around this reality. LOL.

This Glassdoor posted yesterday is hilarious. A "Good Product Based Company"?????? There hasn't been any good product for the past 4-5 years! Plus the direction of the company is to resell, not develop their own product. Note the spelling of "idle", "ideal" was either posted by the Pune team or some one who autocorrect wasn't working.

"Good Product Based Company"

Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

Recommends

Negative Outlook

Approves of CEO

I have been working at Sungard Availability Services full-time

Pros

• Good salary

• All perks of a Product based company

Cons

• No quality Work.

• People are sitting ideal as there is no quality work.

Glassdoor has been taken over by management doing damage control. Look at most of the positive posts, they are being posted by Pune minions. I wouldn't be surprised if they were directed by their management to offset the flood of negative (real) reviews. If any US folks are being hired, they're being paid a fraction of what AS use to pay. The truth needs to be posted to Glassdoor to make sure good people aren't being blindsided.

Latest Glassdoor reviews are a joke, either insecure management d-bags posting BS or actual employees swept up in the new at-work microdosing trend

Feel pity for those customers who are still taking the risk.

So there were Christmas Eve layoffs, layoffs yesterday and the announcement that they are looking to hire recovery operations ppl in Pune. What a way to start the year.

Those let go today we're all from Woodale. This one wasn't a surprise or mystery to anyone.

14 people let go, from what departments?

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, sc-aping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.

About the Christmas Eve firings, why? I just don't get it. Look, we're all adults and know business is business and not one of us labors under the illusion that anybody in management gives one sh-- about any of us, but why fire people on Christmas Eve, why not wait until the day after Christmas or after the first of the year. Firing people on Christmas Eve can only be designed to hurt people. That's not right. The people that run this place are evil.

It's going to be fun to watch all the Pune Pukes jump ship when the water hits their ankles. When the US staff is drained the next cost cutting phase will begin.

What kind of piece of sh-- company has layoffs on Xmas eve? F--- all of upper management

If we can't make loan payment. Next chapter 11

New posting for Recovery network engineer in Pune India they will start to let Network guys go in the US / Philadelphia and have them replaced to do their jobs remotely it's already started.

Didn’t see all of the last call - did anyone ask what’s ther likelihood of us making that loan payment that’s due soon- and what happens if we can’t make it??

'So who's the key people leaving?'

That's an easy answer - the key people leaving are the customers.

Sungard AS has essentially been an Indian company for the last two years. Have you seen the award lists at the recent all-hands meetings? At least 80% are Indian.

So who's the key people leaving?

Can sungardas still even be considered a

US company anymore?

Also very poignant writing on the wall is that key people are leaving and there's no effort to backfill these roles

There is currently training going on in Pune for recovery operations engineers with more planned in the near future. The writing is on the wall.

"Management is saying there is nothing in the works as far as layoffs." LOL. This must be a post from the damage control team.

Everybody I knew who was laid off in the past had good annual reviews. They all met or exceeded expectations. We all knew they were talented hard workers. We all remember how they just disappeared and then we get the email for the damage control 'all hands meeting'. All hands except those who got the boot.

What group? I'm not in Wayne. All work from home? What did they shut down Wayne?

Do your homework 14 people let go Dec 24th all work from home all in the US

We are only 3 days in...