#leadership

If you’re from PI brace yourself the president from SM specimen management from flks is coming to a screen near you and she will destroy everything in her way .. all I can tell you is SM is celebrating her exit ..

This is the official vent thread for the upcoming shít show.

• I'm not attending, fúck GK and the MC and their engagement, etc* Cool, we'll see you in the other threads.

Stop talking. You're making it worse, not better. STFU.

Seems the only way to turn a profit is now THE corner stone of the formerly known as AI Super Duper Solutions Integrator Insight playbook, lay people off. $25 Mil on Q3 books with more to be amortized into Q4 all while debt increases and expenses just keep growing. How about more Cisco sellers hopping on the boot-li---r bandwagon while the Accenture grifters are just now showing up, with more to come. Got to have some lieutenants watching your back for you to make sure to out the not on board with do whatever I have to do to get the $10 mil bonus programme legacy Insight sloths. Guess we ran out of IBM marketing buddies to hire, sure did get rid of a lot of dead weight legacy fuchsia peeps while at it. So let's turn the page and get ready for the Accenture has-beens and welcome them on board with glee and admiration for their lofty salaries!

Products were moved out of core business units and into non core units mid Q. In other words, as q1 progressed and it became clear that core business units were not going to show any growth because of poor performing products, those products were taken out of the core business and relassified as non core. So core businesses did not grow.

The honest cross check is the stuff that can't benefit from the shell game. Total revenue was down 4.0 % year over year and ARR (recurring revenue, subscription and support contracts) was down 3%. License revenue down 8% and professional services down 11%. So all three non cloud pieces fell at once. Cloud grew, but it is still less than half the total.

Bottom line is $1,237M vs $$1,288M a year ago. Open Text continues to shrink despite the multi-million dollar investment in the new GTM model.

Another trick- showing total revenue at negative - 1.7% which is constant currency ex divestiture figures not the actual reported -4.0.

It’s clear that if you work for WTS you have been lied to. The idea that they want to grow the company with you, WTS, couldn’t be farther from the truth. The truth is all of the money and investments from CUSA are in the PPS and Enterprise divisions.

Did you know the company is creating new Enterprise sales roles with a starting salary of $80k? Look for yourself. How does that make the rep who has worked for WTS making $55k feel? As a WTS rep are you too wondering where the Q4 promotions are that will help you financially? Not there. Well why would they be if they don’t care about the future of WTS. They have you on the cheap right now and don’t need you moving forward so why not save a couple bucks?

Last but not least, our company is being run by two individuals that could retire tomorrow (oh and they will). Don’t think that MO and MM are on contracts simply to see this division through until they could shut down WTS and push retail to the dealerships. Don’t let MO lie to your face when he tells you that he needs you. It’s a big fat lie.

Low IQ decision after low IQ decision. This will blow up in our faces.

SG should step down

The email that he sent out the other day is one of the most spineless leadership moves I've seen in my 25 years in corporate America. We listened to you in the survey and we hear that what you want is layoffs! Take responsibility you spineless coward! These people are sociopaths who genuinely don't care, but luckily history won't look kindly on them. DP Koka as well!

Anyone else in S&T starting to feel the tension amongst leadership?

Senior management apparently wants to avoid another large round of job cuts becoming public news, so its small layoffs all the time. I've noticed that a few people are being laid off nearly on weekly bases. This is our new reality.

How many more people have to lose their jobs before leadership admits its plans aren't working? This place keeps cutting staff and spending while morale, trust, and the business itself continue to suffer. What do we need to do to see some change?

That aged well. Dan, keep your head stuck in the sand and living in denial. It seems to be working for you. I guess we are gonna need some bigger layoffs now, right?

Qualcomm signs major 5G infrastructure deal with SpaceX for Starlink Mobile network

SpaceX plans to launch its full direct-to-device mobile satellite service in the first half of 2028, while initial terrestrial 5G and satellite rollout milestones are scheduled to start in 2027.

2027: SpaceX plans to begin launching next-generation direct-to-cell Starlink satellites using Starship and deploy tens of thousands of terrestrial base stations powered by Qualcomm Dragonwing Cellular Infrastructure chips.

Early to Mid 2028: SpaceX projects commercial "5G-quality" mobile satellite services for standard smartphones to go live.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/11/spacex-selects-qualcomm-to-accelerate-starlink-mobile-s-nationwi

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/qualcomm-signs-major-5g-infrastructure-deal-with-spacex-starlink-mobile-network-2026-11-04/

It seems DIRECTV marketing head is gone!

I've watched the people actually producing results lose their jobs in every single layoff - and there's been plenty of those this year - while the management structure remains largely untouched. I guess they think the easiest way to reorganize is to remove employees and leave the bosses in place? But who'll be doing the work when most of us are gone?

KL still gaslighting us 3 years in. Mike can we flip the page and get some real leadership in here.

It's the last several years that have ruined this place. If we could go back to the way things were, I'd be the happiest person in the world. Sadly, with this leadership, I doubt anything good is in our future.

Wow congrats to everyone! We are back! My stock is on fire, and layoffs are behind us for now. Congrats to Chris and the leadership team. We love you, way to stick it out. All weather greatness!

I've seen and heard of almost every single L7+ leader of people in the company that work with TII is visiting the new campus in India from beginning of October through January. Does anyone have any info on why? There's absolutely no reason for them to be flying so many people out just to tour a new shiny campus. Feels like more of our work is shifting to TII.

Mass General Brigham's CEO sent a vague email to employees acknowledging urgent financial challenges. The communication offered no specific details about the required improvements or workforce changes. This follows recent layoff announcements and precedes a planned nurses' strike. Employees and union leaders expressed concerns about a lack of transparency and potential negative impacts. The health system declined to comment on the criticism.

Boston, MA

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/11/03/business/mass-general-brigham-layoffs/

Please explain me the reason to buy this sh-t why you are being laid off

Quite clear the head nodders and associated expats with multiple passports of dubious origin are on the kool aid. This isn’t a drill Abdul, this is real! Get with it man.

Head in sand isn’t a policy.

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put 'anything interesting happen?';
run;

Now, back to the serious business of destroying this company with sh---y social engineering! Get to work, Chr***r!

If everything is so wonderful with splitting in two, then why is the market reacting so negatively?

So no one in Abby’s board has the guts to tell her, “Everyone’s miserable right now…your decision is damaging the company?”

The sheer concentration of former Aristocrat executives embedded at the highest levels of Light & Wonder points to a deeper, structural risk. Looking at the resulting decline in our product quality, the narrative shifts from simple talent migration to something far more aggressive—suggesting a corporate infiltration designed to hollow out our unique market advantages from within the boardroom itself.

All I see from BNSF is slandering Union Pacific. It’s all the ceo talks about. It’s on their homepage for crying out loud and most of their Facebook posts. Union Pacific lives in their head. It’s like they are scared to death of their competition. Its crazy. It’s laughable.

Step 2: Prosper

We get all the usual talk about how important people are to the business, followed by another round of job cuts. Do they take us for id--ts?

Our past two quarterly IR calls have been executed poorly. We had a huge beat in Q2 and spent the call pontificating on possible 2027 headwinds. The stock fell form $107 to the mid $80s before finally rallying back into the $90 range. Today we launch an obviously controversial, obviously high-risk, split of the company, reversing our 20-year strategy. Our description on the call was oddly naive - we used generic platitudes and a "what me, worry?" casual tone, and worse talked about it in soft, flabby language, to explain an extraordinary gamble. And the stock tanks $10 more on a day the market is up 1,000 points. Is our communication and IR team warning him of these, frankly pretty obvious, risks? I fear not and we need to upgrade quickly. very quickly.

Haven't you learned by now that town halls are completely useless, all good and relevant questions are ignored, and at the end we know exactly the same things we knew before it started?

Down ~20% while the stock markets are soaring. You go girl!!!!

I’d guess that something like 40% of TIAA employees voted Republican. When a leader gets on stage and says “we are up by 30 seats in the house” I have a feeling some employees might feel an inclusion problem.

…wasn’t streaming. Any actual updates from Takis? In-office mandates, badging, etc?

So far, nothing actually useful.

So tired of these town halls being a repurposed stockholders meetings. Never seems like any real information or solutions are ever really addressed. How many times are we going to hear about "in this together" or you own this project that an entire team is already paid to do

The Evernorth Care Management and Express Scripts All-Team Meeting scheduled for today was postponed to next Thursday afternoon.

"We’re rescheduling the meeting as several attendees, including members of our leadership team, are currently out due to illness. We appreciate everyone’s flexibility and understanding."

Seems suspect...

Employees dropping dead, equipment from 50 years ago dying, the phones DEAD, calendars empty, ticket list empty, EMPTY promises from leadership, all talk no action. Dead and rotting. Please surplus me already before I die of BOREDOM.

And to the shareholders:
Don’t believe them, they say they’re doing all this work to modernize the company but they’re NOT. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Below the VP level nothing is happening and no one cares. SELL SELL SELL.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6190323-remote-work-ceo-age-study/

Younger CEO's favor work outcomes over office presence. It maybe the fix we need.

Xerox saved Lexmark from being wiped out as a wholely owned subsidiary (since 2016) of Ninestar Corp (formerly Apex) trying to operate in the US against bans of forced Uyghur labor.

Forced labor producing printer parts and toner.

Now the Lexmark management run the show at Xerox and insist on their "Legacy Lexmark" differentiation.

Add "identity crisis" to the list of headwinds.