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How much money did we waste on Metaverse? Upwards of $90 billion? It was obvious for years it was a bust but when somebody's ego is so big they can't accept that their brilliant idea is pure sh-t, that's what you get. How many jobs that money could have saved?

I know this is not layoffs related, but it's been bugging more and more since it's slowing me down and it might affect my future here. We send out docs ahead of time for every single meeting, but it’s obvious no one reads them. Then the meeting turns into reading the doc out loud and re-explaining everything. I don’t understand why we even bother sending materials in advance at this point. It's slowing down the meeting, everything takes longer, and I have less time to do my actual job. How hard is it to get to a meeting prepared??

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If you worked at Verizon for 15 years in PA, moved to FL, then all the sudden VZ sells off to frontier, but then you quit after a few years on a Friday, start Verizon on a Monday, do you think Verizon will finally bridge the Verizon time again? Was told that since Frontier bought VZ, all VZ seniority ends, should you ever get rehired at VZ. Haven’t been able to bridge the time and have been denied, since in the language of the buyout, you can’t carry your time over, if he rehired. Been back at Verizon for about 7 years now in the same position as service tech, feeling robbed of time.

remember when it was "rumors" last month and a company spokesperson denied it. shameless

I know the old Dubin office opened at Polaris but is that place still there? Just wondering. I left the Dublin a couple years before it officially shut down. I've seen posts on this site saying it was going away but never heard if that actually happened.

Or are we done?

Reports make it sound like layoffs have been across the board. Does anyone know how many?

Got flagged for occasional coffee badging. They must be monitoring the cameras. Any others?

It seems This will affect several sites make sure you start networking

https://tmo.report/2026/04/t-mobile-loses-american-and-united-airlines-as-in-flight-wi-fi-partner/

Exxon pulls offer to sell two initial Golden Pass LNG cargoes - Reuters

Exxon Mobil (XOM) has withdrawn an offer to sell two initial cargoes of liquefied natural gas from its Golden Pass export plant in Texas that has been in the process of starting up operations, Reuters reported Thursday.

I am paying nearly 30% more for my commute every week, and that’s in my econobox of a ten year old Toyota. I asked my boss if I could WFH one or two days a week. His response was su-k it up, “You don’t hear the people driving those 4WD trucks and SUVs complaining, do you?”

I have never seen a more chaotic and poorly managed business in my long career. Letting go of some of your best and hardest working people never ends well. If the Board and CEO were trying to streamline the company, they failed miserably.

My advice: Bring back the good, hard-working people who were let go and fire the CEO.

Does anyone know what CL chiefs are? Is it the pinnacle of the technical ladder?

The position is being described as “an amazing opportunity” in a “winning company”

The reality is you will be working at a store in a dead mall from the 1970s.

A mall parking lot with creators in it that can swallow your car

A store full of mold and rodents

A skeleton crew of employees

J2 confirmed

They barely bothered finding a new name..

Qualcomm buys NUVIA, they get bored by how this company works, they create a new company that QC will have to buy in a few years to get competitive again. That says a lot…

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/legendary-qualcomm-apple-and-nuvia-alumni-form-new-cpu-startup-nuvacore-promises-to-rewrite-the-rules-of-silicon

Tell us more about which areas and how many.

How long do you need to be at the company to be vested, partially or totally for your 401(k)?

Anyone knows the rules?

This is a rhetorical question. What's your theory...

So what's the word on the street here? QVC has officially filed for chapter 11 and plans to be out of it in 90 days, so clearly there's already a plan here. I can't imagine there won't be an immediate impact to jobs.

Only sales to get impacted and in very small numbers

Official - North America Control Layoffs This week..

Record client growth and growing at rapid pace? But you lay people off and cut costs on benefits…. Cool.

Newly appointed Dan has a meeting in November in which he said “AI, AI, AI , coffee” and said he’d be announcing his plan in a future meeting. Other than AI and 15,000 layoffs, what is his plan? Can anyone articulate it? Not being facetious, would really like to know.

Just more buzz talk or yet more redundancies to come?

Who else was “saved” but is updating their resume and looking. This place is a joke. How soon until the next round of layoffs?

WL wants
10B by 2028
3B to come from Upstream
1B from GOA Upstream

...any guesses where he'll put this money?

RV has brought us to the flourishing Netherworld.

Everything in our business has withered and died.

Just rest and vest

What the heck does it mean to be on the bench? Being a benchwarmer is usually bad but it is discussed as if it is good at Exxon so must mean something different?

How long until ADM is sold off? Is there a definite buyer? Will the potential sale include employees or are they likely to get laid off before the sale?

Don't ever forget it. You're more likely to get laid off if you're skilled, experienced, and outperform than if you're an average slacker who's just good at office politics. The better you are, the higher the chance you're deemed too expensive for a company that cares neither about the quality of its people nor the quality of what it delivers.

Laying of 10% of the workforce will boost the company stock. Ford has too much waste in their workforce.

The modern Ford Motor Co. has emerged, CEO Jim Farley said Wednesday as the company detailed some restructuring and said it will refresh 80% of its North American vehicle volume by 2029 as a part of its efforts to compete against new competitors like Chinese brands.

Former Apple Inc. executive Doug Field, Ford's chief EV, digital and design officer, will depart over the next month as Ford prepares to launch next year its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform.

That's a rhetorical question, by the way.

I saw someone mention Risk might be affected as well, but I haven't heard any updates.