Almost fell out of my chair when I saw the location for the next town hall (St. Louis). Is he planning to break the news in person how much he hates our location and can't wait to close it or will the view of the arch give him a change of heart?
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Charlie is a reptile and doesn't have a heart.
@dg Duh, the event is a product of Public Affairs. They are not going to film people looking bored or disinterested. Are you that naive??
Jokes on them, I haven't watched that liar ummm his way through a town hall in years.
@ef that is true. But all those NY guys hate anyone who isn't from NY.
STL will be around for years. That doesn't mean that full departments won't disappear.
WIM will be fine because there are no other teams to pick up the slack somewhere else. The experience and skill set is too specialized. However, if not related to WIM, you're tagged to go.
STL is the armpit of WF and everybody know that the city is not in Chuck’s and Ekene’s future plans. It’s been announced more than once already.
Only delusional people think they have a future at smells fargo.
Can’t wait for the bank to tank!
@dc WFA is bigger than all of Stifel
“HYs vision is closing all admin buildings outside of NY and Charlotte.”
BS. STL isn’t an admin site.
Are there any senior leaders in STL anymore?
@dg the people in the crowd are by invite only anymore. Usually senior leaders & a team member of their choosing.
Pay attention to the next Town Hall. What I want you to focus on is the camera shots of the audience. The camera person will start focusing on the true believers who are sitting their, smiling, nodding their heads in agreement with what is being said.
You won’t see someone who is staring off into space, looks bored, playing on their phone, etc.
The event is a production to signal to the audience watching remotely how they should be feeling about what is being said. And the camera person does this by narrowing down who is put into view to only those who seem mind blown and excited by what is being said.
All he is going to do is make his appearance and fake his way through some speech his inferiors wrote for him. He'll talk about how great they're doing, how AI is the goat. He will act like he cares about you while he has the proverbial boot on your neck. He only cares about profits, nothing else.
Meeting with Stifel to sell off WFA.
@OP
Yes, staring at a stainless steel hoop is going to change his mind regarding closing down a site.
Brilliant. Nice question.
STL is going away at some point. Get over it.
Everyone definitely needs to flood the invite link to submit questions with questions about St. Louis’s future. You know the crowd questions will be preselected softballs.
St. Louis folks, no matter what image he tries to project or what he says, know this: He, Barry, and Sol have nothing but disdain for St. Louis and the WFA campus. The latter two in particular have been overheard by several people mocking the staff there.
I don't know when STL will close. All I know for sure is that it's a matter of time. HYs vision is closing all admin buildings outside of NY and Charlotte. The 10-12k terms per year won't stop, and we're just about out of ops centers and smaller admin sites that could be closed to reach those kinds of numbers. There's no other option but cutting hubs next. Maybe not 2027, but 2028? Don't say I didn't warn you.
Barry probably told him to go to STL so people would stop whining about the false rumor the campus is closing.
So what? He was in Des Moines too. Does it mean he is moving the headquarters there?
@aa doubtful
Has to be a good sign for St. Louis campus