Thoughts about town hall this morn?
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Anderson Cooper was disrespectful
Beat your co-workers to the backlogged job market! If you aren't apply...
@hg they are using it, you’re just on the wrong one https://www.thelayoff.com/time-warner
@hg you’re right. As many layoffs as they’ve also had, I don’t think they realize the full extent of what is coming. New owners see wb employees as one of those overcrowded trains in India. Too many passengers
The Caribbean Remote Workers are holding up fine…on the beach, working on their tans.
@fa For sure, YK is radiating empathy. We’re lucky to have him.
its crazy how WBD employees dont use this at all, there's 2 posts in the span of 5 years lol.
@fa You can expect a lot of downvotes because a majority of people struggle to pick up on sarcasm for some reason.
YK seems like a guy who deeply cares about Paramount/WBD employees.
I've been on this board since 2021, I am not skittish at all. Those who have been here a while and dodged the axe with Bob Bakish (who was actually decent), then with the transition trio, and with the SD merger got to have developed a thicker skin.
I don't even know what kind of opinion you can have about the town hall. It's all the same and predictable "storytelling" pseudo-relatable fluff and acknowledgement that layoffs are coming (we knew that). Only useful nugget of information that we could have had could have come if Anderson Cooper pushed a bit more on where the cuts would come from, but alas.
Now we just wait and see when the axe is going to swing. I hope sooner than later, I've been through this before and waiting is the worst part, but I am used to this.
@cx I heard WB is pretty laid back with RTO. They will definitely do what Skydance did for Paramount and do full time RTO. Woof!
I’d assume WB gets the same bullsh-t RTO mandate Paramount people did, including a window to comply or take a buyout. Once those headcount numbers have been addressed, that’s when the deeper cuts will come.
@c0 I'm surprised that more people aren't more skittish for this reason. Last year after he bought the company he talked about how he envisioned us as a tech company and then proceeded to layoff the most technical people on many teams I work with many projects having little to no movement since then. Now that CH is out and CB is in charge there's no doubt he has a ton of people and teams he prefers.
Akin to The State of the Union Address before Trump. All cheers; no jeers and nothing that's not pretentious and disingenuous.
A curated town hall will always be “good”. Same thing happened last year and then the ax came with really no true rhyme or reason. I’m actually surprised Anderson moderated since he presumably left 60min or the BS.
@ax Looks like we’re going with the Disney strategy: pump out as many garbage movies with recycled stories as possible. It works for Disney, so maybe it’ll work for us too.
I'm surprised there hasn't been much criticism regarding their arbitrarily vowed 30 movies a year.
Why not just make however many great, well thought out and executed movies you reasonably can instead of phoning in 30 a year just to satisfy basically a middle school cafeteria bet.
Feeling synergized
Mentioning "storytelling" every 30 seconds is way more important than all of us being worried about simply being able to pay rent and utilities and such.
Billionaires totally understand that kind of struggle. They're just trying to make ends meet, ya know?
It was good. DE is giving Paramount and WBD employees a serious shot at achieving the American dream.
Anderson Cooper tried his hardest to get the Mattel Man to say when layoffs would happen. No avail. You know it’s coming. Skydance was very quick to announce layoffs last year after the Paramount deal closed.
While I appreciate that Anderson was allowed to ask uncomfortable questions, the responses were predictably vague. I get the reasoning, but it's hard to build the culture they want when responses aren't transparent.
Let's Go?
Let’s go!
Amazing town hall with DE!
hearing them acknowledge that layoffs are coming without giving more info in terms of timeline isn’t ideal but otherwise feeling good!
Good!