#allhands

Anyone else finding their All Hands from Director, VPs, SVPs keep getting cancelled for this month? Getting a bit worried here. Fusion. Must mean a re-org or more layoffs given how often it’s happening.

Anyone else on this complete waste of time call wondering if they will ever actually address the REAL concerns were having... (ie job security, layoffs, etc)

Get those coffee mugs ready. And please be onsite to enjoy the viewing parties in person.
Thank you for your attention to this critical matter.

HR.

Did anyone else notice this? The session went on for about an hour. The recording is 40 minutes long.

Noticeably missing: some of Hamid's comments about corporate taxes and how to best handle the $40 billion windfall from spectrum sales, Hamid's comments about how the "rich guys" benefit from certain tax practices, and most notably, that kind of joke question about whether we'd see any part of that sale in our 401Ks (and Hamid's response that he'd have to see it in his 401K first).

Did anyone else notice this, or am I going crazy? Did they actively edit out the more tone-deaf and uncomfortable parts of that session?

Another round of Allstate Asks where Zulfi tells us that they want to know what we think, but then they complain (and target you) if we don't give them the answers that they want.

No wonder they are at Lenovo, Intel didn’t want them! All Hands was a sh-t show!

just had an all hands. VP announced that all leaders now must RTO 4 days/wk. hasn't trickled down to ICs yet but we all know it's a matter of time. and if you have been remote and don't live anywhere near an office? tough luck, I guess that means you can no longer serve your job requirements and will be let go.

this makes no sense because it's not like our entire team will be in the same office anyway even if we went full RTO. we'll all just be in different offices across the country.

Anything good come out? Unable to attend..

It didn't look like it on the all hands, lots of red but we will get there they say

All hands ? What is that deal with that

Any thoughts ? Are we hiring and returning to growth

This call started off with the highest of BS, and CB does think like an owner and his wallet is bulging because of it. The first 100 days has been a Sh** Show!!

What did we think of Meg this time round?

Wondering if there are any updates?

Will they come with some BS in the nxt tech all hands or will they just keep it real that they had no choice but to save cost…they been good at telling fancy stories

Thoughts on recent all hands and VS future with hopefully F2 and F3 operational?

Are there any specific performance review for leadership? Rooting for RIFing Girish?

Are these all hands just for him to ramble? He hasn't said anything important

A lot of baseless rumours have been posted here. You must be said after today's all hands

Hour long meeting full of insults. The idea that working in office will foster conversation and innovation is, as someone else has said, a fat load of kwap. There are SO many reasons for why this isn't going to go well on the 4th, but I don't want to beat a dead horse.

I'm just tired, man.

What is everyone's thoughts on today's Town Hall?

Email regarding Dans 1st quarter meeting 4/28. Hopefully some useful information. I’m not betting on it!

Just more buzz talk or yet more redundancies to come?

Get your popcorn ready!

What are your thoughts on today's webcast?

Is the dilemma and misery coming to an end?

Thoughts? Any ideas?

Wonder what the agenda items will be?

If anyone knows later today, please share.

the ai is failing and the sales team is getting the blame. Can’t sell a sh-t product bottom line

• how do we feel on the q4 all hands
• the first lady that spoke.. felt vague at strange on employee things to come?
• who is this lisa lady
• how are folks on legacy inmarsat side holding up?

First time in many many years where the ALL HANDS WEB CAST was not posted on Bridge .... From what employees are saying the CEO was crying during the webcast and the company has disclosed any infomration stating that there is no recording for such . Can anyone confirm and or comment on this?

An all hands invitation was sent out this morning for April 1
GP and WP leaders on it and I hope that they have some information to share instead of an hour of word salad slop.

Here is the rundown:

Moving to a 'open contribution' model. Near 100% adoption of AI across the company.
Moving to an 'AI first' mindset. Ty Thorsen (SVP) announcing new 'AI transformation' team to force the use of AI across the board for all engineers.

Still have no growth strategy, just directions and empty promises, AI is taking over increasing burnout, you know what that means...

Moving fast fast fast and faster, more speed more acceleration more efficiency, aiming higher doing better bigger goals yap yap yap typical corporate jargin bla bla bla be excited about company growth (dont ask for more pay)

Karlheinz wurm could not pronounce 'cost', kept saying 'co-k'

Overwhelming negative feedback in the Q&A about RTO.
The anonymous questions are funnily brutal, the top voted one:
"As an office-first organization, shouldn’t all the leaders on this call be present at their main collaboration sites?"

Ty Thorson (SVP) """"answers"""" RTO concerns:
'While individuals might be more productive at home, teams are more productive working together in person" holy cope

"we are not the only ones doing this..." slap to the face

"Were leading this with a carrot, not with a stick. We are hoping the people will appreciate coming into the office for their team" trying to blame YOU for their bad decisions

Then they start blatently deleting all of the tough-to-answer RTO questions. Absolutely comical as more and more people ask "Why are you deleting RTO questions". So much for being a transparent company.

The rest of the questions are sidestepped and doesnt really answer anything, typical corporate vetted PR talk around the use of AI and how its going to change the world.
Constantly reciting the absolutes, like "all", "most of", "best", "must", "fully", "completely" etc.

People are asking some really brutal questions now, example:
"Someone deleted the question??? Please have all leaders show who is currently in the office if we are to believe you are leading by example"

They keep deleting questions rapid-fire.
Atmosphere gets tense.
No actual questions answered.

"I see concerns about topics like RTO, please message xyz if you feel this way"

"Will we compensate people for gas and time lost coming into the office? Thats not part of Cisco's policy its your responsability to take care of that" lol thanks lets create a problem and expect you to pay for it

The questions in Slido get REALLY heated now, moderation is working overtime deleting messages. More and more questions on compensation not increasing with inflation.

Out of all the leadership speakers, only 4 were in the office.
Everyone couldnt even come into the office to give a talk about returning to the office.
Great lead by example.

The rest of the meeting was a big nothingburger.

It cannot be any clearer how dogshit current leadership is.
If you havent quiet quit by now, this is your signal.

This townhall stood out from the usual scripted updates—it felt more real, direct, and intentional. Instead of just showcasing achievements or high-level strategy, this one leaned into transparency, addressing ground realities. The tone was more candid and less corporate, which made the message land better. It didn’t feel like a one-way presentation; it felt like a reset—aligning everyone on priorities, expectations and the need to execute better. Overall, it felt like a signal that leadership is aware, engaged, and possibly gearing up for change.

Looks like another 90 minutes of time waste is upon us... Here is what is going to be said:

1) We are awesome (according to our own selves of course).
2) We are winning against Microsoft and Citrix (again according to our selves).
3) Our customers love us (that's why they are leaving us, you see...).
4) Our technology is so futuristic (hence why we brought the 70s back in our SKO).

BTW %73.67 of you clicked on the phishing email that was sent the other day so you now have to take the wrath of big man DD and explain to him why you did not fight harder against the temptation to click on the URL.

Could someone share what’s on the agenda or what main topics we’ll be covered during Wednesday’s mandatory all‑hands call? I’d like to know what to expect so I can be prepared ahead of time.

Do not waste employees time if you have nothing new to share!
Heard the same ideas again with AI in every sentence in Nancy’s org All Hands.
Did not dare to answer most liked questions on the slido.. trying to paint rosy picture when in reality, nothing is rosy.

The first TPG All Hands question was straight up ballsy. Too bad, Shanky gave a non-answer "EQ-IQ-EQ-IQ".

Is there a US based layoff coming in the next month? Wondering because we have all hands scheduled in the next two weeks so seems like it might be weird to have an all hands during layoffs

Alfonso just done an All hands. What a confusing All hands and a load of cr-p.