#executives

Who will be the next CEO? If the board lets Khalaf stay until 65 or if they cut him, they need a successor, stat.

Great news, everyone! There's a $9,500 weekly budget for first-class flights (up to $5,500) and five-star hotels so executives can visit the new GCC in India... to help outsource your job.

But don't worry, we're all "one team." Yippee!

Am I to understand we're getting yet another Pepsi person at Paradigm? In charge of MDR and AI Products? What the he-l does that even mean? We're just making up executive positions.

And yet another vendor that is friends with G-yatri doing some bad live podcast that he got paid god knows what to do?

More nepotism happening at Paradigm than the White House.

Maybe I'll look for work at Pepsi, seems to be the only place safe from G-yatri's friends at this point.

I heard that this time around the direct managers had an input on who leaves and who stays. Does anyone know if this is true? My understanding was that the execs are the ones who make those decisions. Does anyone know the criteria?

Dan Schulman’s employment contract as CEO of Verizon runs for 27 months, extending through December 31, 2027. He officially took the helm in October 2025 to lead a consumer-driven reinvention and strategic overhaul of the telecom company.

Did anyone else here this? The board was doing the same for Sampath before Dan sacked him.

Whatever happened to the VLC shadow board? I was energized and excited by the LinkedIn posts and game changing thought leadership. It’s clear that it made a real difference in the company, and I hope Dan and what’s left of his leadership team continue this tradition as we play to win for our customers and communities!

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the body overseeing the implementation of United States monetary policy, has announced the creation of five task forces intended to evaluate and improve the Fed's operations. In a press release, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh named the "external advisers" who will lead each task force, ranging from economics professors to AI investors and corporate executives—executives like Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who will preside over a task force on employment and productivity.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/us-federal-reserve-taps-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-who-just-laid-off-3-200-employees-to-lead-task-force-on-jobs/

Look around AT&T and you will many executives with a strategy title. Why not leverage AI to define our strategies and reduce executives responsible for this. When u listen to these folks talk they are saying the same thing financial analyst are already saying about AT&T. Everyone can come up with strategies, why overpay someone for this.

These executives are evil.

What legacies did TG and other recent retirees leave behind? Better or worst?

Congrats to T Leadership for tanking AT&T Stock to new 52 week low — looks like all the layoffs, corporate real estate selloffs and cost cutting is paying off. Only T executives could get paid millions for running the company into the ground.

Do you think there will ever be a change to the current structure where promotion is based on who you know, and not on your performance and accomplishments?

Pretty ridiculous to see senior executives that do not have more than a bachelor's degree. If even that. No surprise that many at that level are lacking the intellectual capacity to lead efficiently.

Those people know that they will never get a comparable job anywhere else and will do anything to stay creating a cesspool of political games and backstabbing.

self proclaimed transformation agent, from GBT American Express travel. A travel website? To running all of tech for a top fintech? Another bad decision by Lyons that now we all have to live as he's on to the next company to tank. Mike's short tenure here was a complete disaster. Look at the people he hired. The prima donna queen of AI, and more useless payroll. I hope Takis cleans house or this place sc--wed.

How has no exec internally brought up the lawsuit about securities fraud. The silence is deafening.

E.g
https://www.ktmc.com/it-gartner-inc-class-action-lawsuit

Meanwhile the C level still have their off-sites with expensive food and drinks like the world is rosy. And the stock keeps sinking lower

Cesar just announced the President Club. Roughly 150 people going to Four Seasons in Sydney. What's something like that gotta cost? How many FTEs could it have saved?

Ajay from Oracle and Adobe? I guess we like dinosaur companies that move at a glacial pace and nickel and dime their customers for legacy products running on fumes from the glory days.

Panos was a Infra Leader? He had no experience leading entire eng orgs of backend, API, frontend teams. At best he's a SRE/Data Center guy, no wonder.

Tuckness started as a Five9 intern and every 1 or 2 years got promoted? He could not possibly have been that good.

JDR was at Skype? You know that team who's own company replaced it (Teams) because the product went downhill so quickly.

Why does Optum have so many Directors and VP’s who don’t have direct reports? If I were trying to trim the fat, that is the first question I would ask.

This is why so many hours are spent making PowerPoint presentations just the right color, etc. Oh the stories I could share about the board visits to the Delaware Basin in New Mexico.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wPiwujPls90?is=MJ7kBe5mNJLcQdVo

So USAA is doing corporate investigations on lower level employees for RTO, yet they keep hiring executives to be remote, how hypocritical is that? I submitted a JAR earlier today once I saw on LinkedIn the new Chief Information Security Officer is remote. My reasoning, my director is remote in San Diego, ED is remote in New York, a girl on my team remote in Hawaii, and another girl remote in New Mexico and a guy remote in Iowa. Yet I’m the only one in office (Charlotte) and I live in South Carolina, but since it’s only 58 miles and not 60, I’m told to be in office.

Where is the World Cup travel and boondoggle money coming from all of a sudden?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/atts-double-standard-executives-face-sec-complaint-while-jayson-gnall-rkrrc/

When the SEC files a complaint against executives and a company agrees to pay a record penalty, most people expect accountability. When employees raise concerns about company culture, leadership decisions, or practices they believe deserve scrutiny, they often expect their voices to be heard. What happens when those expectations collide? The public record provides some interesting answers.

Turning over like crazy!!! Normal or worrying??

No press release from PayPal yet but they are usually asleep so no surprises there.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/asurion-appoints-kausik-rajgopal-president-chief-revenue-officer-to-accelerate-growth-302802719.html

How is Dan approving hans travel expenses but cutting for everyone else. Also, what is Hans doing as special advisor?

Leslie is in the front and center. Sam is out .. she is the new face of leadership.. I told you guys.. she is not going anywhere.

Universal Studio Group is merging UCP and Universal International Studios. Beatrice Springborn will lead the new Universal Global Television. This restructuring eliminates 22 positions across NBCUniversal's TV operations. Jennifer Gwartz, Marc Velez, and Steven O’Neill are among the departing executives. The consolidation aims to align content for the global market.

https://deadline.com/2026/06/ucp-uis-studio-merger-beatrice-springborn-layoffs-nbcuiversal-1236956996/

Retired or forced out?

Anyway, good start… we’re all hoping stink is next!

I just do enough in log in the hours and collect a paycheck. The place is the walking dead. Nobody cares. Stankey just doesn't remotely come close to having that It factor that you would get behind and do battle for. Most would give him a giant shove into the line of fire.

Surprised no one has mentioned this. Anyone hear why? Any opinions on the new guy? Seems like he’s blasted through the exec ranks pretty fast

Selling shares and syronara Sam! Effective July 1. Were the shares sold before or after she was informed?

Can someone help me understand, Dan Lyons said the reason why company profit was lower in Q1 was driven by executives compensation due to 50,% run up in company stock price. Is this real?

Profits took a hit partly because of a dramatic runup in the company’s stock price, a rally that continued with the war in Iran. Part of the company’s compensation package for executives is linked to its share price — when the price goes up, so does the value of compensation.

The company’s stock rose by close to 50 per cent during the first few months of the year, resulting in “higher incentive compensation charges,” which weighed on profits, said Daniel Lyons, senior vice-president of finance and administration.

The charges amounted to $143 million after tax, Lyons said.

So are all executives having a party??

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/imperial-oil-cuts-130-jobs-121636913.html

Of course being replaced by ai is not impossible, and obviously scary, yet hilarious to think about our executives regurgitating data organized by ai because they won’t even know what’s incorrect.

Link dropped in our emails. Let him have it.

Kelly King and Bumbling Bill made an agreement when Gargamel took over that he wouldn’t remove the pension for 10 years. Not sure if that was the day of the merger or the day Gargamel took over. But the pension will cease to exist in way less than 10 years.

I am a first time visitor and I read all of the posts. The one I liked the most was the report card. I wanted to write one and see what y’all think and how things have gotten better or worse.

National sales/ This one is my team so I would rate an A but our marketing toolbox is horrible and we didn’t hit every target so B.

Local sales/ this one is the same as above. I have lots of friends there so I know.

Marketing/ this one is horrible. F-

Safety- I don’t know that much about these gentlemen so B. I haven’t heard great things and haven’t heard bad things.

Legal: I don’t know much about them either but because they shut their eyes to everything I read below that they coulda shoulda stopped, I will give them a D

Crisis business team/ these gentlemen get an A++ . They send us informational teports that I give my customers and they love it and they figure out how to get them out orders no matter what is going on out there. They also called me once when there was a g-n fight near me to make sure I was safe. If these gentlemen are part of the safety org, then A plus for them. Bless all y’all for what you do.

HR- I have friends here too and I would have given them a B but the cheating to bring the wrong people to our company and that atrocious hire gives them a D. They shoulda known better.

Security/ they have to change this yesterday. How could y’all think the gentleman was the right hire. Y’all are exposing us to danger.

IT: these gentleman get a D. Their apps and tools are easy to use but they go down all of the time.

Payroll- they have a new way to pay us for our wins and never had any problems with them. B

Out drivers: they rock it. They make it happen. A+

Executives / C

Did I forget anyone?

Anyone got any clue as to what the H is going on this weekend? Intranet says executive board meetings from 06/05-06/09. I’ve heard rumors Ed Rust has been spotted A LOT in Bloomington but it’s just a rumor.

1 By partnering closely with NVIDIA, Dell successfully secured a front-row seat on the AI wave.
2 By backing Donald Trump, Dell gained political support and substantial government orders.
3 By distancing the company from China and giving up part of the Chinese market, Dell earned strong trust from Trump and his allies.
4 Through quiet but decisive and continuous layoffs, Dell has consistently reduced costs.
5 By shifting operations toward India, Dell has maintained product competitiveness.