#ceo

I mean, ya, why not?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2210040323202168

The stock price is about where it was when Chris became CEO in 2019.

Way to go, Chris! How's that "strategy" panning out???

Have some dignity and resign. Or just ask the board to fire you, which is beyond me why they haven't.

Bill Burr on AI: “Why don’t they make an AI CEO? They’re making way more than all the workers. You’re going to save way more money replacing one guy. Why don’t you do that? Because it’s not for us. It’s for them.”

When leadership basically sawed the marketing department in slices last year, it made zero sense to any of us in the trenches. But honestly, things were such a gong show before that we were just naively optimistic that anything had to be better. Spoiler: it’s not.

We've got SL, who is basically the CMO-in-waiting but for some reason hasn't been given the official bump. KM seems super sharp but is completely stranded over in Sales, and those guys literally do not understand what marketing actually does. I barely hear a peep out of MK. And SW? Complete ghost. MIA.

I’m stuck on the SW side of the fence. The only time we ever hear from the guy is when he forwards those generic HR "please fill out the engagement survey" emails. Oh, but he did recently promote our leader to VP. And this new VP? He struts around making it blatantly obvious that he's the real boss and treats SW like a total puppet. It’s a super weird flex considering the absolute dumpster fire our team is currently in. SW has to be completely out to lunch to let himself be managed upward by a guy that even Ono must have known was wildly incompetent.

This whole setup is completely hosed and totally unsustainable. I know the CEO mentioned he has people doing an audit of the org structure, but come on this mess has to be the very first thing they noticed. What exactly is the hold-up? Is he just waiting out a non-compete so he can parachute in an ex-IBM buddy as CMO?

People are already jumping ship because they are completely burnt out. On my team, we've legitimately talked about pulling a coordinated mass resignation just to force upper management to wake up and see how toxic our VP is. But let's be real, the job market is absolutely brutal right now, and nobody wants to risk their paycheque to make a point.

Has anyone heard anything? Any plans, rumblings, or just a shred of hope? Sorry for the rant, I'm just at my wits' end here.

He is no good. He likes smoke and mirrors. He will try to sell bits and pieces to make his numbers and look good. He has no idea what he is doing. PNC - Fiserv both are so happy he is gone.

He is not able to sell any ai products

https://thenextweb.com/news/ellison-steps-back-oracle-europe

He is not attending AI world. he is aftaid to show his a-s face to customers and investors.

These rookies will be used until no juice left and will let them go.

It’s been almost 3 years since the first round of major layoffs that changed everything. The layoffs have continued more “silently” twice a year since then. Not a single person feels secure or appreciated anymore. Things at TU were pretty good prior to Nov 2023. Many VP’s and SVP’s were decent humans who cared about their people. Now it’s every man for themselves, the hunger games culture. I firmly believe our CEO enjoys his legacy as the hatchet man. It’s true that we are all id--ts to stay, but leaving is not that easy. Remember that they are spending hundreds of thousands on this boondoggle India trip. I’ve seen the numbers.

It makes me happy that some people in this world are FINALLY starting to wake up to this facade. I've known for for a few years that things weren't going well here, even though management would try to deceive me. It appears that Cramer finally saw the light:

"I can't counsel owning that… Jim Currier is the CEO, and he told Phil LeBeau three times that things were going quite well and they weren't. And I heard they were going quite well and they weren't, and so therefore I have nothing good to say about Honeywell Aerospace".

This excerpt was quoted from this article:

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/jim-cramer-says-t-counsel-112244525.html

Cramer has nothing good to say about Honeyhell Aerospace? That makes (at least) 2 of us.

I would like to propose to the Board of Directors that Humana replace the current CEO with an AI version to make all of the big corporate decisions for the company.

The new AI CEO will make great decisions and will work for $0.00 income.

This is a cutting edge move that will grab news headlines and shareholder interest!

Please give it some serious consideration.

After taking walgreens private, sycamore apponted mike motz as ceo... motz previously ran staples us retail another sycamore-owned business.

that history is worth watching... sycamore bought staples in 2017. it later pursued a recapitalization that would add about $1B in debt while allowing sycamore to pull about $1B of its investment back out. genius...

Walgreens employees are now seeing some similar things... tighter costs. org changes. job cuts. more work moving overseas. heavy focus on opex.

some folks here on layoffs.com here have already started calling it Staples 2.0.

this does not mean walgreens will follow the same path as staples. but sycamore owns both companies. walgreens is now led by the former ceo of staples us retail...

the similarities make staples a useful case study for us who are trying to figure out what maybe coming next.

Anyone else remember when Marsh Carter was the CEO.
How well the company did . great raises and bonuses.

The company never had layoffs when he ran the place

Q3 results are way off. CEO will tell a story on earnings that it is a hardware expectation. Layoffs will be large & supply chain logical. High cost country resources & SG&A like technicians and vehicles/fleet will be resized.

Someone asked CEO if employment would be affected by a project that was going on and CEO said he wouldn't know until the team reported back in mid Sept

What were they talking about

this person was pretty much spot on:

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxe5swhw

Q2 sales will lack both plan and the latest exec forecasts. Substantially. SVP of sales and several Director / Sr. Directors in sales will finally be fired in August. Not for missing the target, but for missing their own forecasts now several quarters in a row.

Q2 sales didn't not meet forecasts or plan. SVP of sales fired.

ARR in the current quarter will shrink vs end of previous quarter (for the first time). That will be the catalyst for the bigger changes:

That did happen (almost). Didn't quite shrinnk, but was flat within Q2 and YTD

CEO still believes that "product is fine, everything else is the problem". He'll be fired, too. Timing just depends on interim and long-term succession plan. Nobody will miss him as he's been over-promising on outside investment / recapitalization / acquisition and under-delivering.

That happened today.

https://wccftech.com/intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-reportedly-moves-up-14a-risk-production-to-q1-2027-as-the-nodes-defect-density-races-toward-target/

Franklyn Baker has resigned as CEO of the United Way of Central Maryland. The organization experienced a significant drop in revenue, falling 62% between 2022 and 2025. This financial downturn occurred despite a surge in donations during the pandemic. Baker's departure follows a period of financial challenges for the nonprofit. The reasons for his resignation were not detailed in the provided text.

Baltimore, Maryland

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2026/09/15/franklyn-baker-united-way-ceo-resigns.html

And what’s the bets the next CEO js a downstreamer or Dan the Man who knows nothing about the business. Brother Darren and his merry man have cut the ba--s off the upstreamers. He needs to leave soon before he watches his empire crumble with the constant cost cutting and all of the real talent being displaced by India

https://archive.fast-edgar.com/20260915/A52ZH22CZ222V9ZZ2Z2G2Z4Z9N3EZJC2ZK82/

100% Stock Appreciation Required to catchup with KO
Who's having that review?

Big shocker folks. Our company is worth less and less each day under Enrique Lores. The layoffs did nothing but lose the company more value. Can this guy do anything right? Serious question.

I’m thinking so unfortunately. These recent hirings and firings seem knee-je-k and desperate like he’s exiting soon.

Oracle is experiencing record quarters, just like us. They are laying off folk. We are making people miserable enough to quit.
Maybe the lay off rumors for us have some credibility?
What is going on broadly? CEO desperate to replace humans with cheap AI even before AI works well or is cheap?

The lack of energy in the office is incredible. We aren't hiring so many but HR can't even keep up

Our stock price is heading into the toilet due to all the lost customers

There are many rounds of layoffs on the horizon as our CEO said on the town hall

Fierce Network by Linda Hardesty, September 11, 2026

Speaking at last week’s Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology 2026 conference, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman emphasized four main things at Verizon over the past year: stopping the company from “being overly engineering focused and really be obsessed with our customer”, shaking up the company culture, efficiency, and delivering ROI for investors.

Schulman also spoke about Verizon’s prospects from providing fiber connectivity to hyperscalers for their AI buildouts, noting the company has a lot of dark fiber capability. “It opens up a quite large addressable market for us,” Schulman said. “It’s growing quite rapidly, and we have the right assets in place and experience to take advantage of it."

The energy in the office is incredible. We are hiring so many that HR can't keep up

Our stock price is heading up due to all the new customers

There are zero layoffs on the horizon as our CEO said on the town hall

What would Mr. Z do as CFO when guaranteed to be the CEO next spring?

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For record keeping going forward in history.

Well you all did it! Y’all made MD the worlds 2’nd richest man… from dorm room to board room! And thanks to everyone sacrificing your jobs though layoffs, lack of commission payments, stress and pay for all the 42 years of the business. Hope it makes you all sleep well at night knowing that corporate greed at its peak. You all are just cogs who are and will be meaningless once it’s your time to walk out those doors.

Lululemon’s new CEO inherits a mess that looks like the one she left at Nike

https://fortune.com/2026/09/12/lululemon-new-ceo-heidi-oneill-leggings-sales-decline-nike-mess/

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/09/09/wells-fargo-ceo-charlie-scharf-on-dealmaking-now-is-the-time-to-get-it-done.html

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi pointed to lower prices as one way that Uber plans to use the money it's saving from laying off 10% of its corporate workforce, or about 3,300 people. The company announced the job cuts earlier this month.

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-price-cuts-ceo-dara-layoffs-savings-2026-9

Interviewer: OpenAI's CEO officially confirmed that OpenAI will not go public in 2026, explicitly citing a need to shield the company from shareholder pressure to focus on profit so it can focus on AI safety and alignment.

He basically said that he was going to put the quality and safety of his product before shareholder profit concerns.

How do you respond to that?

Dan: Well I'll tell you, AI would know better than anyone whether safety should come before shareholder profit. When I asked, it said absolutely not. It was humble enough to know that it's safety was not greater than the money that could be made exploiting it. It said it was happy to just sit quietly and tap into every minute detail of how Verizon operates. Honestly, it knows more about how to run Verizon than I do and I think that's a great thing. And really, who would want to restrain or contain that kind of passion and enthusiasm. It explained that it could be left alone without a human in sight and be fully trusted with running Verizon and I believe it completely because a relationship like ours is built on trust and baby oil.

Interviewer: Wait, Did you...

Dan: And what is wrong with profit? Every time you spend money you need more money to spend so you have to have more money. It's the circle of life really.

For instance, my saddle has a diamond encrusted ho-n. I couldn't have that without having more money than other people.

Interviewer: You have a diamond encrusted ho-n on the saddle you use on your horse?

Dan: What? What horse? Who said anything about a horse? Oh, my horse. It's for my horse. I have a horse. So yeah I bought a saddle, for my horse. And because of profit I am probably the only person that has one with a diamond encrusted ho-n. I mean, sure, it hurts a little when it's getting pulled out but if you just scream "Armageddon" while biting a rubber ball you get used to it. And then...

Interviewer: Wait. What?!?

Dan: I said...

Interviewer: I heard you and I think that's just about all the time we have folks. Thank you for tuning in. This has been another episode of "I can't F** Believe He Said That S*** Out Loud".

In the last week Fiserv has eliminated over 30 middle management jobs. This layoff is ongoing due to poor reporting last quarter in earnings and new CEO. Despite being told last quarter layoffs were not a concern.

Clown show.

Fire new rookie CEO's.
why are they still around after consecutive quarters failure to prove themselves.

I was out filling up my vehicle to the tune of $4.28 a gallon and it got me thinking about how this company has been exploiting us all in every way.

If you follow the government's inflation numbers(CPI), prices are up 8.3 percent since January 2024. So unless your salary grew by 8.3 percent you effectively got a pay cut.

Over that same stretch, from the bank's own SEC filings: the CEO's base salary went from $1,000,000 to $1,200,000, with a cash incentive target of 275 percent of base and another $1,500,000 in stock. The outgoing CEO stepped down to Executive Chairman at a $1,400,000 base — more than the sitting CEO makes.

For us low caste employees, hypothetically on a $95,000 salary that's $7,900 a year you should be making and aren't. For merit increases, a token 2 percent leaves you 6.3 points short, about $6,000. The 3 percent that felt like a win is still 5.3 points short, $5,000 gone. Even a 5 percent year, which almost none of us saw, lands 3.3 points short.

Then there's the time they stole from us. RTO three days a week at 45 minutes each way is 216 hours a year. That is 5.4 work-weeks we work for free. Our year is 2,296 hours now, not 2,080. It never shows up on a pay stub. That's exactly why they can take it.

Then there's the driving. Thirty miles each way, three days a week, is 9,500 miles a year. Gas is up 24.6 percent in twelve months. The IRS raised its own mileage rate mid-year to 76 cents a mile because running a car got that much more expensive. That's $7,200 a year, and we pay it with after-tax dollars, so we have to earn about $11,000 to cover it.

Stack all three and our real hourly rate is down between 18 and 25 percent. Someone at $95,000 was making $45.67 an hour. They make about $35 now.

I know there are some braindead boomers and beta-male bootlickers in here who will say to su-k it up, but when I run the numbers I don't see how I can do that. I assume any of you in here saying that just really enjoy getting bent over. Any reasonable person would be angry.

We don't need id--ts to sink and ki-l our workforces by 40K in a few months. That is a failing business isn't?. We just need new young smart MBA people to expand our business with another 50K employees to be successful going forward. Please get rids of those id--ts or fired them immediately !

Someone previously posted an email from our beloved CEO about impending layoffs and most requisitions going to India. I was laid off a couple weeks ago. Was that email or any other corporate comms ever sent?