#loss

FIS lost the FT TA contract, their largest which includes Customer Service because they could not successfully provide the kind of service that FT financial professionals and their shareholders were used to receiving. FIS platforms su-k, the rollout of the new websites was equally bad. So many top producing financial professionals moved their business out, that FT is in the process of taking back their TA. It is a sh*tshow of the highest order. Didn't see this mentioned in this thread. Everyone who was moved over to FIS, will now have to try to get their jobs back at FT. The legacy FT employees did not cause this, but they have to live with the consequences which includes layoffs in May of 2026, if not sooner. Will the shareholders at both locations notice? Which line items on the budges will reflect this total failure? How will FIS sell this one?

How much did AT&T lose on Time Warner and DirecTV?
Months before it sold Warner Media to Discovery, it spun off the satellite broadcaster DirecTV, another prong in AT&T's media strategy, with a loss to shareholders of about $49 billion. By The Times's calculation, between the Time Warner and DirecTV deals AT&T has squandered close to $100 billion!!!
How do we lose soooo much money and still have the same dum dums at the helm!???

If you had invested $1000 in TDC on November 23, 2015, your investment would be worth $910.31 today.
That's a -8.97% return, or -$89.69 in loss.

Lost our Director, Area Manager and Supervisor today... Not a good day at Verizon.

I try to keep up with the stocks and stuff and it seems like we did so bad this year then i saw the other day that we lost another contract in Fla and then the tax credits for our market place plans are going away. And then the medicaid cuts are gonna lose us more members. does it feel like maybe this company won't be around very long?

With new R&D lead in place, re org to be announced in the coming weeks! Digital group to merge closer with S&T with a shift of staff both ways and assuming loss of team members.

Laid off in Canada at 56. This blows.
Going through LinkedIn, it looks like there were a lot of us “of a certain age” that were let go.

I have been in similar shoes and I just want to send my words of encouragement out to everyone experiencing the potential grief this week. I call it grief because that’s what it is—a loss of a life, job, career, leaders, coworkers you once held dear.

Take at least a day or two to just process. Try not to be solutions oriented immediately. I already see some friends posting on LinkedIn. I know the desperation is seeping in, but please, take time to just grieve and process this first.

Then pick yourself up and reach out to friends who have left COP previously and talk to them about what they did to leave. There is a life after. You will be okay. Sending you strength.

So really, the best option we had for a CFO was someone from Renault-Nissan's Excom during the time of a massive financial corporate fraud committed by Carlos Ghosn, and involved in a $12B loss to Renault from their essentially failed joint venture with Nissan?

That's the best we've got? What is it with Geoff wanting to bring on either his cronies, people bound to fail (e.g. Amazon, Walmart, GE) or c-suite colleagues from failed experiments?

How much is the loss in SNAP benefits going to hurt Walmart?

Under what conditions will the Model E recover its development costs and investments, CE1 is do or die.

The current total XRX Goodwill is only $1.91 BN, but.... Lexmark has goodwill as well. With a total market cap of less than 1/3 of the Goodwill, you have to wonder if they have ANY Goodwill value left. They wrote down 1BN a yer ago when the stock was at $9, now it's $3. I was thinking before the Q3 loss would be 1BN, but now I'm thinking closer to $2 BN.

Analysis By NAN Business Editor
News Americas, Georgetown, Guyana, Tues. Oct. 14, 2025: ExxonMobil’s Guyana President, Alistair Routledge on Monday claimed the company is “still operating in the red to the tune of around US$6 billion” in Guyana, as he retorted over to a question by three U.S. senators on the company’s tax breaks. So which number is closer to reality: $6 billion or $3.4 billion in losses?

What Routledge Said
Speaking at Exxon’s Ogle, East Coast Demerara headquarters, Routledge told reporters that the NGO Oil and Gas Governance Network, (OGGN) may have misled U.S. senators about the company’s tax filings. He said that ExxonMobil Guyana is still operating with a negative cash flow of around six billion US dollars.

“We continue to be actually cash flow negative on an accumulative basis… we are probably still around six billion US dollars in negative cash flow as we look at the cumulative expenditures and cumulative revenues that we’ve seen from the Stabroek Block,” he told reporters.

Routledge asserted that in ExxonMobil Corporation’s 2023 and 2024 tax filings, there were no Guyanese tax credits included in either of those filings, “and you would recall that prior to 2023, we were not making profits here in Guyana, so there were no tax credits from that. Up until this point, there have been no Guyana tax credits used by ExxonMobil.”

The Alternative Figure: $3.4 Billion
But Exxon’s own Guyana website identifies a different figure: US$3.4 billion in red ink — even while acknowledging an accounting profit in 2024. According to Exxon’s 2024 financials:

Gross production rose sharply with the Prosperity FPSO, boosting revenue for all partners

Despite posting an accounting profit, the company said it remains “in the red” by US$3.4 billion

Exxon and its co-venturers have invested a cumulative US$55 billion in Guyana to date.

This divergence begs the question: how can a company be both profitable on paper and yet claim to be billions in losses?

The Contractual Context
Under the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), Exxon’s Guyana deal allows it to recover up to 75% of its share of oil revenue for cost recovery before profit payments begin. In practice, this means a large portion of early revenue goes to recovering the developer’s costs- capital, exploration, infrastructure – leaving little net profit early on.

Furthermore, financials for 2024 show:

Operating expenditures of GYD 477.6 billion

Depreciation/amortization at GYD 301.8 billion

Exploration, production, royalties also eat into margins

These mechanics help explain how Exxon could legitimately claim negative cash flow despite strong revenues.

Why It Matters for Guyana
The optics of a $6B loss vs $3.4B matters deeply for public trust, fiscal policy, and future licensing. Guyana has collected over US$6.2 billion in oil profits and royalties since 2020 – so when Exxon claims it’s in the red, critics say the narrative raises concerns about transparency and fairness. If Exxon can delay or reduce profit sharing through cost recovery claims, that changes the magnitude and timing of what Guyana as a partner actually realizes.

Bottom Line
Both $6 billion and $3.4 billion claims could contain grains of truth, depending on accounting methods, timing, amortization and recovery policies.
Routledge emphasized cash flow negativity and absence of Guyanese tax credits in filings.

Exxon’s public data insists on a lower loss figure despite profits.

The discrepancy boils down to methodology, timing, and cost recovery mechanics.
So, while the $6B figure commands headlines, the $3.4B estimate rooted in Exxon’s own reporting asks where did the almost three additional billion come from?. It’s really a question of how loss and profit are really defined.

https://www.newsamericasnow.com/exxonmobil-guyana-loss-vs-profit-2025/

The time will come, and judging by how things look very soon, when chasing cheap, unskilled labor will backfire. There’s only so much core knowledge and experience a company can drain before everything collapses. Sooner or later, corporations will have to relearn the value of skilled labor - years of specialization, hard-earned expertise, and creativity born from experience. AI isn’t replacing anyone, and this obsession with cheap, easily replaceable workers will only lead to ruin. We’re already starting to see it happen.

The 30% onshore and 70% offshore model is cracking! Especially with incompetent resources, vendors and time constraints.

Senior leaders take credit for functional processes along with their minions, but in reality there are a ton of manual touches, fixes and workarounds by the working class folks who have subject matter knowledge. They keep riffing the workers before they obtain the knowledge and try to turn on AI. But AI can’t compute because the fake “functional” processes that the Execs lie about don’t really exist. They should own their kluges and get to functioning documented processes first before attempting AI but they likely already said things were working and complete to get their big bonuses. Letters and benefit configuration are two examples where they wiped the team and lost the knowledge and are still paying the price, I think accums could be another. As always business will try to blame IT for not implementing requirements they never told them about. I think it would be more appropriate to say they have RIffed people for a promise of AI or a dream of AI, but the jury is still out. Peak will be very interesting!

Exactly what @15d+1k5hc5789 said.

Whoever makes it through, just imagine what things will look like once the dust settles. We’ve already been under immense pressure, and now it’ll be triple the workload without the most competent and reliable people. Makes me wonder if keeping the job is even something to feel relieved about.

Im tired of wasting so much time, money, and energy driving into the office for no benefit. It's such a struggle to find parking and then a desk, let alone nearby your team. And then its a noisy, chaotic environment thats difficult to focus in, but told this is somehow a more productive environment when it just isn't. This clearly isnt about collaboration or productivity or there would be better implementation and feedback routes. The current RTO model is implemented so poorly its doomed to fail, yet employees are paying for bad leadership. I'm tired of adding an extra work day to my week in commuting, only to make it harder to do my real job. RTO is a bubble waiting to burst and I wish it would happen soon so we can figure out a better way forward

• Nvidia bought a $5 billion stake in Intel, causing Intel shares to jump 30%.
• The deal excluded Intel’s foundry unit, which lost $13 billion in 2024.
• Analysts say the manufacturing business will keep losing money through 2027.

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/nvidia-wont-fix-intels-biggest-headache/

Paid 15 billion in 2015. Inflation alone should be worth 25 billion now worth under 7 billion. What happened with alterra? All value getting wrecked

Why did HCSC even bother to acquire the Cigna MA LOB? HCSC has made it clear that Cigna MA employees have no value to them and that they could not care less about us. What was the point? Will they actually make a profit from their expansion in the MA market, or possibly from selling us when the one-year period is up, or will they write off the aquisition as a loss--what is the real reason?

Can somebody please explain to me how is this good for Oracle?

I created a virtual environment test bench for our local office at first, to test Xstore Office in order to replace our bug testing on real hardware. It got so popular that it is now used in a global environment. Never once did I get a raise or promotion, and now they axed me entirely. Thanks Oracle.

let go after 26 years in one of the DB team. Lot of people got impacted in DB org.

To meet FY26 goals, the decision has been made to let you go.

15yrs, gone in a blink.

Last day 9/22.

I'm hearing some people are working through the end of September.

I'm out. Oracle Health. So much for loyalty.

I feel so sorry for everyone who’s been let go. I truly hope they’ll land on their feet quickly, with better opportunities and a bit more luck on their side.

I recently lost a Canon production machine where CSA (now Canon USA) was the incumbent.

My customer decided to price me out to a local Canon dealership and as you can imagine I lost the deal because I was I undercut. I informed my direct supervisor who escalated this but nothing happened. I lose and Canon still wins? Of course.

This seems somewhat unfair because if the situation was reversed my head would be on the chopping block. I have seriously had it with Canon USA not supporting the reps. Everything is a challenge these days and it seems like every time I turn around they found another way to reduce my compensation.

Clearly our senior leaders will never rock the boat and slap the wrists of the dealership for fear they won’t sell Canon. This transition into Canon USA has been terrible for sales. All of the promises that were made were nothing more than lies. Just our email addresses, right Pete. Your sales staff can’t stand you and your retirement can’t come soon enough.

Happened yesterday, but had the night to sleep it over. Many years of hard work and I’m not optimistic about the coming months looking for a new job.

The comrades I’ve lost… It won’t stop hurting, it's like they’re all still there… You feel it too, don’t you? …they came after you in OCI, then OHAI. Oracle just… keeps growing, swallowing everything in its path, getting bigger and bigger. Who knows how big now…

I thought everything had been taken from me. But now, I really have lost it all. The Boss, and the future we were building together.