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seems counter-intuitive?

What is the latest with Phase 2 RTO and remote workers?

It is so obvious State Farm is all image without no substance. What say you?

Keep seeing that we are going in firmwide 4 days starting April 1. Can anyone confirm?

In a surprising move, our CEO has appointed a new hotshot CFO with a global business background, replacing a seasoned executive with years of experience at MPC and MPLX. This change could be a response to performance concerns or may signal a significant shift in company strategic direction. If the latter is true, it raises the question: Could more long-standing MPC/MPLX employees face a similar fate in 2026?

VMware didn’t need all of those employees and Broadcom runs VMware with more efficiency and profitability than most of you thought was possible.

First, I asked my supervisor and HR and no clear answer so I am asking here as many of you got severance. Does the payment come on normal pay cycle (6th, 21st), I was surplused in November and no check yet, I got denied unemployment because Company listed I got severance but nothing yet, bad time of year to have no pay, severance would help, job searching tough. Appreciate any input

Does everyone stick to the 3-4 days in office? Most people I’ve talked to do 2 days if anything - I think riding it out until more days become mandatory.

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Anyone heard that there are senior leadership changes in APJMEA? My manager was on a call earlier and changes have been announced.

Seems an odd time to make such senior changes to the leadership who have been in place for many years.

Someone posted this and is worth the reading:

Verizon has a long history of failed execution:

go90 ( folks from Finance told Lowell NOT to buy INtel TV but, during a golf game - Lowelly wanted to play “big honcho” and sealed the deal over that game. Finance and legal the. Had no recourse but to pay it and close it out). And what a failed project - starting with its name Go90 - the the big bankrupt: aol, yahoo, add hum, finance transformation, VGS, blue jeans, plus play,

Many of us warned them about tmobile and they laughed at us. In an HR all hands we called it out and the silly HRBPs were like sheeps - singing the “tune” that they are forced to implement. And where did that got VZ - a total failure

AI can be very helpful if used correctly. Lot of talk that it can replace human workers. That is absolute garbage.

AI helps you do your job better. I am choosing words carefully and not saying faster. Before AI, it was hard to achieve required quality in given amount of time to complete tasks. Now with AI, you have an opportunity. You can and should still take as long as you were but use AI to achieve the quality. With AI, you have to use lot of review/refinement cycles to get to desired quality. It takes time but you can achieve really good quality deliverables.

So I say layoffs based on thinking AI will replace humans will just sink the company. But the new year is on the way and talks about 50% or 70% layoffs are surfacing. I say if they don’t think it through carefully they are highly likely to sink the sinking ship faster than fixing it. The company they paid $10 billion for, may just become 3 billion with 70% layoffs.

1) Rebrand everything else with new logos
2) Push aggressive pricing to juice short-term revenue
3) More layoffs, because Layoff.com needs traffic
4) Double down on digital investments with no payoff
5) Sell parts of the business to fund all of the above

Happy holidays!

That might work for a short while, but over time it becomes completely mind-numbing and demotivating. It starts to feel like taking pride in your work is somehow shameful. Since we spend basically half our lives at work, is it really too much to ask that it actually means something?

It feels like the whole enterprise is designed to make you dislike your job and prevent you from ever progressing or accomplishing anything of substance. And I mean real substance, not a promotion or a raise. It seems like corporate leadership doesn’t actually want people to perform well, just to stay within narrow boxes defined by shallow metrics. Limited thinking, stuck in numbers and charts.

We’re holding steady at every other week for connect weeks! Also, who else is incredibly thankful that Fido never required the ‘shot’ to keep employment?!? A true blessing!

Any word if flexible schedules will be eliminated 2026? It’s one of the biggest incentives the company currently offers.

As we all gather to spend time with family this holiday season dont forget to educate them about our beloved company...

• Tell your MAGA in-laws how many of your American coworkers have been replaced with offshore Indians by Cigna.
• Tell your Mom and Pop that despite working for a Health Insurance Company that Cigna has still increased your health insurance by thousands of dollars a year.
• Does little Sally need a bedtime story? Maybe read her one about how a brave knight slays a parasitic PBM middleman like Express Scripts.
• Is your uncle into the stock market? Bond over talking about how bad the Cigna stock is doing. Its okay CEO David Cordani's pay is almost completely based on stock but yours isnt.

You wont get a lump of coal for doing any of this because Cigna said during the Townhall that they have set aside money to spin a more positive image of the company. Funny how there is always money for that and mergers but never for paying talented American humans.

https://globalbiodefense.com/2025/07/03/trump-vance-research-cuts-biotech-warning-2025/

https://www.hcltech.com/press-releases/hclsoftware-acquire-jaspersoft-cloud-software-group

How Trump's 'crony capitalism' has shaken up U.S. business https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5639916/trump-crony-capitalism-free-market

Title says it all. Will be announced today

That’s Verizon in a nutshell. After everything that happened this year, I don’t know a single person who’s not desperately looking for a new job.

Have a buddy starting there as a college hire

Does mondelez have a website to report empty shelves? I want to take pics in my area and send them somewhere to get people in trouble.

Is anyone else's weekly shift changing to a rotating by the week? Is this company wide?

Well done leadership, really good stuff, keep it up.

https://ir.nasdaq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/annual-changes-nasdaq-100-indexr-2

Xerox and Lexmark Secure Majority of $385 Million of USGPO Contracts in 2025. (Google this)

To my colleagues here who like me are going through the perpetual misery that is employment with PepsiCo - at least for the next week or so - give yourself a mental and emotional break. I am working most of this and next week excepting for Xmas and New Years but save for those days - I want nothing to do with company. We all know this is one of if not the most incompetently run major corporations in the world but that is on the clowns who run this place. Not us. Thanks to everyone for providing a safe space to vent. Wishing everyone a happy holiday and prosperous new year with - hopefully- a new addition to your resume in 2026.

Don't forget! Don't end up on the naughty list

I noticed an opening in this department. Does anyone have experience or know anything about working for this department? Do they use Verint? Do they micromanage the heck out of you? I presently work for Humana , just trying to get away from the horrible management I have presently.

What happened with the coin toss? People are saying it was botched but I didn’t see anything that indicated it went poorly? In a strange video she said she trained for the coin toss….and I don’t think she was joking. Lastly, it has been reported that PP was crying a lot signing the new partnership agreement - is that true?

Was told that sperry Rotors and casing is shutting down both at the ends of December . Terrible timing but I guess they want to start 2026 with cleaner books.

If you could pick the next CEO, who would it be?

Layoffs resume 1/6/26.

From what I see, Juniper’s leadership team looks sharper than HPE’s. Antonio hasn’t really stood out to me. HPE has more women in senior roles and quite a few European executives, it almost feels like a European company.

Salesforce message - hang on, we're almost there - like we are under construction or something - great impression on the customer. I have customers saying, what is that on your tablet - why is that screen flashing and saying that message. How long will this take. Is your tablet suppose to do that. Is this what I can expect from your company.
So what's amazing about salesforce that I think no one in management realizes is that you created a problem that never existed. Yup. You sure did. Good job slackers. You finally did something. You took an ordering / activation system - Opus, which worked pretty good, and ran it into the ground. Now that takes talent. You took a system in which one could activate a line of service, or order a product, and you added 5 minutes of latency and redundancy in which one will log in to another application - aka - Salesforce or covid as we call it, and watch the screens jump, flash and there is nothing you can do. But hey, there is purpose in this. Yes, purpose. This was done to destroy the company, this much we know.

The new CEO, now in the role about 18 months, has a more down to earth style than Greed. He came in with lots of fanfare on transparency & to right the ship. Assets & Clients continue to bleed at record numbers & more is in the hopper. Employee sentiment is negative and many are - not feel - are - overworked and underpaid.

New revenue enhancers like managed accounts in group plan are non existent and the corporation is still an operational mess w/weak leaders overseeing sales & operations. Sales are down and automation upgrades cu-m at a snails pace.

PR wise, company is still taking it on the chin w/no real plan in place to boost public review sentiment.

One bright are the Lipper awards but company can't find a way to get this news in front of clients. On the dark side, CITs are not used & the investment line up changes every Haley's commet.

Website hasn't been updated in yrs, and AI and Omni channel communications w/clients is well behind competitors. Team CX really does Sucx.

Disastrous exit from Truspire, and fire sales of two property gems like 320 Park & 1150 Broken Sound were the only thing preventing NY DFS from some type of takeover and helping replenish the $500M in lost surplus since the Pandemic.

Rating Agencies have lowered ratings and lawsuits against former employees in an attempt to protect the bizness have been distractions and embarrassing.

The CEO ran on transparency and even in first public statements when Rich asked Janoffseky what surprised her the most, she went on the record and said "lack of transparency"

Board is invisible and old while being out of touch.

After 18 months, our grade is: D- (2 Star Rating) time for a performance improvement plan for him and his lackeys.