#communication

Does Brian think we're stupid?

Guys? I’m worried our leaders might be stupid.

Serious question: does anyone else feel like we’re past the ‘planning’ phase and already in the ‘waiting for the shoe to drop’ phase?

Big leadership announcements, but no full org charts below first line, no clear direction, and oddly few real comms.

Feels familiar.

HR posting fluff on layoff.con

Has anyone been told their STIP payment or know the date/timeframe?

i walk in, log into MS Teams, and talk to people who are halfway across the world. i don’t even know what they look like, and most of them are contractors

Interesting that it has not been rolled out yet and no one is able to give date for release

I could barely find any news on it, and I looked, trust me.

For those let go, are this layoffs being done during the 1.1 meetings?

Does anyone know what the he-l is taking the company so long to issue the new picture ids, that they demanded back in October that we needed to do it or face discipline. No1 knows where or when they r getting sent out. Once again rush rush rush with this company n the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

Does the head of HR still do that thing where she dodges hard questions about layoffs?

I had a conflict and missed the Open Mic, I assumed they would send out a recoding but after that last email it seems likely they will not. Can anyone share what was spoken about? Are there more changes coming?

Oracle is known for having too many layers of management. D and his close circle handle all the big meetings, while everyone else only gets small pieces of the work. This keeps the rest of the team from seeing the full plan. If Oracle fixed this and shared more information, the company would be much better off.
Need to get more Directors off-boarded or shuffled from their meeting favorites.

Was let go in early December, told I would get an offer the start of January but after calling HR I was told I was still an employee for Jan and would get the offer mid to late Jan but have still not received any email from them and doubt Ill be getting one tomorrow..Anyone in a similar boat get any new info? Thanks.

Why did all FTE not get yesterday’s email? Multiple on my team had no idea what the lot of us were talking about. Not that it wasn’t just a pathetic excuse for “transparency”.

Quick translation: No you won't get more people; yes you will get blamed for ELT decisions; we don't care about your burnout.

Some of us were not invited to the party in Vegas. How goes SKO and what about the CEO msg??

I get the guy is a bank-hopping (literally his sales pitch in his first meeting) likely H1-b, but his use of the English language is rather terrible. He routinely spouts non-sequiturs that diminish what he is saying, but in today's autocorrect-tuned world, nobody catches it. This guy is being paid a bunch of money to axe a bunch of US jobs, and the guy can barely utter competent sentences in the target audience's language.

The guy he replaced was significantly more capable as both an idea man, and a communicator. This ship is sinking fast.

Between problematic bosses and the constant fear of job cuts, coming to work has become a source of genuine dread for me. I've noticed that rumors change daily, and it doesn't help there's no clear communication to settle anyone's nerves. My team is paralyzed, we're all afraid to make a wrong move. The stress is now affecting my sleep and my ability to concentrate on anything else. I'm rapidly approaching my limit for coping with this sustained uncertainty.

Pretty clear Bill only cares about share price.

He gets a question about ICE and he just waffles and rambles about how we need to be calm.

He gets a question about culture and he barfs out a word salad about safety.

It was said that all employees received it but I am a contractor and haven’t received anything. It’s probably safe to assume we’re first on the chopping block when it comes to JE but it’s not like we’d be notified of it.

Since it’s Thursday, I guess my manager is just fully committed to avoiding me about my merit/bonus conversation.

Year 1
Comms overload
Ameanable
Pay rise

Year2
Comms wind down
Grumpy
No pay rise

Year3
Limited Comms
Angry
No payrise

Year4 (if they make it)
Whats comms?
Who knows how they feel
No payrise

If we played a drinking game every time they say AI everyone would be drunk before lunch time. These people are so out of touch.

Communication theoretically begins today - what is the word?

According to an email sent in December. They were set to talk this month. Did they? Are they still? I don't understand why the complete silence all the time by the company and the union. I can see why they wouldn't give specific details while negotiating but they could at least give us the most general description of the current situation, right?

Thought this was only for project managers?

So we here in the colonies have lost pretty much our entire schools publishing and content team. The rationale is that global content can be mediated to local curriculum requirements. This is patently untrue. The ANZ market for secondary school material is seriously insular, and anything that is not created by local writers will be looked on as second rate nonsense. They are moving us to the Pearson model, which as anyone who knows our market will attest is doomed to failure.
The best bit of this though is the fact that we only found out about this via a: people who had already been dumped but still had relationships with those canned and b: the actual email that went out was addressed only to the team who were mostly already being canned. There has been no messaging to the rest of the ANZ team despite us working closely with most of those involved over many years.
Gold standard in intercompany comms.

Apparently there have been some talking points given to managers to help soften the news of no raises this year for higher end earners, specifically in risk. Can someone post those talking points? I want to know what is bs and what is genuine from my manager. Thank you.

Rachael Clark told her group a few weeks ago that the bank is letting MN folks work from home until January 30, but she expected that to be extended. Has anyone heard if that has changed?

There was no communication to local employees regarding this snowstorm. The only email notification we got was an email that I saw this morning when I logged in. Why would they send an email to our work address when we’re not logged on during the weekend…. makes no sense.

Is the latest round over or is it just getting started? With no officials numbers on how many were cut so far, it's hard to tell.

Are we going to be getting official memo saying how many were laid off ??

So, where are all the letters that they talked about for the rest of the employees that did not get any 2 weeks ago....???? They were supposed to come out today 1/23/26.......

“I recognize the weight of this news, particularly as it follows the organizational changes we made last year,” Anagnost wrote. “I want to be clear that this will not become an annual process at Autodesk and these changes are not driven by the external environment or an effort to replace people with AI.”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-autodesk-ceo-layoffs-21309689.php

Microsoft‘s communications chief did something unusual this month. He publicly shot down layoff rumors before they could metastasize. When anonymous posts on Reddit and Blind claimed the company planned to cut up to 22,000 jobs in January, Frank Shaw took to X with an unequivocal response, calling the reports “100 percent made up/speculative/wrong.”

https://hrexecutive.com/what-microsofts-layoff-denial-reveals-about-viral-rumors/

G confirmed at the town hall that big RIF is weeks away. He called out management and underperformers but said cuts will come from everywhere. He also said there will more in the future but not every third thursday like employees have been used to.

Did the company communicate WFH for this week for Minnesota? In the office today and there it’s a ghost town

No pigeonhole this All Hands call she wants us to email questions directly to a mailbox so she doesn’t get harsh questions.

I’ve been an employee of Optum for quite some time. I was recently contacted by a journalist who would like to ask me some questions about how the organization works and my personal experiences. Think I should talk to him?