#discussion

Is this really happening in the US right now? Slack is showing 146995, but there haven’t been any updates for the past two hours

As in layoffs? Is anything coming?

Does anyone know what we can expect?

it had some good inputs - who is the mod ?

Any updates on whats going on in Lombard?

I’m surprised nobody posted this article.

https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/verizon-ceo-dan-schulman-describes-himself-pretty-intense-guy

Are any other departments breaking up and being made independent like Medtronic diabetes was?

Does anyone know?

Is minimed still part of Medtronic? I see minimed staff still on ms teams. Anyone know when they are completely independent?

Is minimed facing redundancies as well? I'm wondering if its a good idea to make a shift to minimed or stay in Medtronic?

Any minimeders - can to share your insights? Are things looking good on your side ? Which departments are doing well?

Why hasn't a main stream jounalistic reporting website not reported this event? Something is odd here

eom

Unspeakable

Anyone attend?
Thoughts…

Anyone know anything about 2:00 meeting for some teams in IT?

At TMT Osvaldik indicated that we will not enable a Starlink MVNO. But since our D2D joint venture with ATT / Verizon was announced, rumors have circled that T-Satellite will be ditching Starlink for AST Spacemobile once their service us up. If this happens I fear that SpaceX has no choice but to acquire us - as its the only way they will be able to provide true terrestrial service to the U.S. market. That would result in a major bloodbath (we all saw what happened when Elon acquired X). Doubt it would make financial sense, but SpaceX can easily raise the $ and they are looking deep into the future.

Can someone please talk me off this cliff?

Just curious if anyone knows if Microsoft, AWS, Google, Oracle are doing PIPs as much as IBM? I know every company does them, but to what extent?

Why? When's the last time you can truly say we got something useful from a town hall? I can't even remember.

What exactly do these guys do? They're always in POC mode, churning out white papers that nobody really reads. Do they actually add any value?.

Hearing whispers of a good sized acquisition that might be finalized soon.
Anyone else?

I am surprised the board is silent with all things that are happening. I guess there is more chatter on Paramount Global's page - Good luck all.

Or did we really reach the bottom? It feels like we cannot sink any further.

Which teams will be impacted in September? Does anyone have any idea?

I read a lot of different company discussions boards but I think Phillips 66 is the most active I've come across. There must be some serious deep rooted problems within the company. These boards can have a few resentful ex employees but that rarely lasts long. As active as this board is it tells me there's some serious issues within. Yikes

What's he even yapping about?

Just when you think it couldn’t get worse

Anthropic Researcher Warns There’s ‘>10% Chance’ AI Could ‘Ki-l All Humans’ By Next Decade

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/09/anthropic-alignment-lead-warns-ai-could-ki-l-all-humans-as-researcher-quits/

Anyone know if large layoffs are coming in October ? Aymon mentioned in town hall that large layoffs were only if a company had a profit problem whereas Opentext has a revenue problem so sounds like no cuts ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html

KEY POINTS
Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger said there is a greater than 10% chance AI could ki-l all humans within the next decade.
Another Anthropic researcher said he has resigned, accusing leading AI labs of racing toward superintelligence without adequate safeguards.
The warnings add to growing concerns over AI safety, including whether advanced systems could become difficult for humans to control.

What do you say to that Dan?

There can be no absurdity without the world. There can be no absurdity without man. The Absurd only exists when both exist in tandem.

So anyone have a clue if this is the call we have been waiting for???

I'm sure some of us are thinking that VGS is coming back soon, and it would be a validation of sort. Maybe some newer folks can chime in that think otherwise. I'm not looking forward to big changes with the holiday coming soon.

I’ve been seeing posts from various L and D team members bragging about how great this year’s MoL was.
I thought it was just the same old junk as in previous years.

Are we losing our monthly Purpose Corner?

They’re deleting questions they don’t want to deal with. What’s the point of participating?

Has anyone heard about how the negotiations are going. Contract expires in June. How have past negotiations with other unions at enbrige get handled?