not a single thing I've read here is confirmed or verifiable information. everything is speculation. E.g. we don't even know for sure if there will be 2 rounds of layoffs. focus on what we know, speak with your leadership, and stop reading this anonymous forum!!! it's not healthy!!! focus on more productive activities.
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@fv the Townhall referenced below on 10/7 randomly was on my calendar to attend and a lot of other peoples and we aren’t even close to being management
@fv are the regions going away
@ff no. Managers and directors in the regions got invited last minute. It’s a standing monthly town hall for VPs, not sure why they invited managers/directors this time. There wasn’t any groundbreaking or new info.
@ev I'm in CB and no one I work with got invited to the Town Hall. are we cooked?
@ew “we need to retain our base”
The part they leave out is “while simultaneously retaining our revenue and doing things the way we have for the last 20 years”
Those two things are mutually exclusive and leadership seems to refuse to accept that
@ev they barely said anything. Just a bunch of “how we work tomorrow will not look like how we worked yesterday”, “ai is developing more rapidly than I would have thought 6 months ago”, and, “we need to figure out how to retain our base”. I left the meeting feeling more confused than when I went into it. 😂
@a9 Note: The CB Town Hall Oct 7th was never reposted internally or made available for replay. One and done. Zimmerman and Angelakis said what they said and didn’t want it repeated.
You can tell what departments in this huge corporation have lived with their head in the sand for years. I gave almost two decades to this company before I left and learned a new trade luckily during a better economic time.
The writing was on the wall years ago when tv was long dead and drag on the pnl for years already, then broadband tanked after failed rebuilds that foolishly wasted money with bandaids when they should have just ripped it off and went full in on fiber.
Now they peddle Verizon phone service that only strengthens the war chest of your competitor and still have to give it away as a loss leader to try and save broadband churn.
Now it will probably be sold after the profitable bones have been picked clean and spun off and sold to the competition. Maybe a few ffo’s will remain to be overworked underpaid and thrown away at the end.
But don’t chastise those that have already done this dance with this company for years through layoff reorgs or forced retirement. Maybe listen and learn!
@ah may be 10/22, call in sick to send a message?
@OP LOL the CFO literally said it's happening and when.
https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/-largest-cost-transformation-in-comcast-s-history-will-save-billions-says-cfo
Reading and posting here is considered to be a productive activity by many people.
If you don't agree, then why aren't you spending your time doing something more "productive"?
Instead, you're here making a fool out of yourself by screeching at shadows, and being a wannabe control freak by barking orders at people, trying to tell them what to do.
LOL!
Whenever someone tries to suppress or steer people away from free speech and discussing issues amongst themselves, it's an indicator that the person trying to control things is not doing so from an altruistic or helpful position.
Why do you care if people come here to read or post?
You seem to be quite unnerved with people gathering together to compare notes.
This is how guilty parties and dictators behave, when feeling "threatened" with the hoi polloi speaking with eachother and perhaps also "getting restless."
Let freedom ring!
People have a RIGHT to speak freely amongst themselves here, and IRL.
In the USA, it is our constitutional RIGHT.
You don't get to suppress, oppress, censor, or control anyone here.
And that really bothers you, doesn't it?
: )
Calling all of it speculation is a pretty broad claim. Unless you actually know the facts, how can you be so sure? What if there’s truth to it, and it’s just challenging the version of reality you’re comfortable believing?
Organize a company wide strike for one day to demand information on their plans
@ad I laughed too. It’s obvious this person hasn’t followed anything on the board or considered any of the many hundreds of concerns about leadership…that’s why we are on this board.. because you can’t ask or trust leadership.
Speak with your leadership? Oh, man, thats a good one!
You are probably right that this forum is unhealthy. But we all sit around doing work that at any moment could be taken away from us.
Where it has helped me is to help me feel like there’s other people struggling to pretend it’s okay right now. I agree that most (though not all) posts about numbers and what to expect are based on nothing. But that to me doesn’t matter.
In this soulless corporation we all work for, there is some empathy and decency and this group usually reminds me of that. But then you get someone like the OP coming in to attack people…
True. I do know of a business analyst (contractor) whose last day is today. Typically starts with the contractors first.
@OP CTO already confirmed restructuring on a LinkedIn post and the word of the day for the townhall was efficiency. We heard multiple rumors they are coming but I agree probably not to the extent as the doomsayers are saying
@OP yes it is unhealthy to spend one’s time and energy here, it gets exhausting and produces no benefits. I can say almost the same about LinkedIn during the time I was looking for a job. 🤪 But I also agree with @a3 that speculations are rampant because of the complete blackout of actual information. I was blindsided, because I was actually busy and had upcoming projects; before I got out of the door I received invites to attend meetings to discuss how great the “realignment” would benefit the team - nobody bothered to drop me from the DL - and shortly after these festivities Brian shared the news that NBC Universal and Sky would be spun off, and some of the very people who organized those team building sessions just days earlier would no longer be part of Comcast, and they hastily organized another town hall to tell the underlings they didn’t see it coming and knew nothing. I was too busy looking for my next role to pay attention to the unfolding drama.
Dude that's the problem. The company doesn't tell you. In fact they tell you everything is fine then they lay everyone off a month later. Where have you been? They're laying hundreds off right now!
@a1 I am certainly glad that I no longer have to work with those with an obvious ax to grind. They have shown who they truly are.
@a3 bottom feeders lol
There was someone on another thread who clearly seemed like they knew what they talking about with two waves
Other leaks here have been accurate in the past. Leadership knows this board exists and what's happening. They have chosen not to quash any rumours intentionally.
Why mentally invest on something you may not be part of soon?
Can confirm. Anxiety is worse
Aside from speculation, the rest of the content here is straight-up trolling by folks with an obvious axe to grind. The signal-to-noise on this board is garbage.