Entire Sabre will be affected. You can read how SARS affected travel 17 years ago (SARS is way smaller comparing with COVID-19), it'll be much worse...
Get out those resumes
Stock is crashing today following financials report.
Most Job REQs have Disappeared
Job postings for each countries are almost completely gone from the careers site. Does this confirms cuts are coming on Q1/Q2? Even those in KRK, BLR, US are affect
Any truth to this?
So did anyone else hear about TWG members being told last week to find another job because their jobs will be moving overseas? Plus, there is the group of classic Interact team members on the tech side who are also getting cut if they aren't assigned... — read more
and off we go.
What a crazy environment where everyone tries to scare everyone else into quitting so that the person doing the scaring wont get laid off. What an insane place ! How are people supposed to focus with all this crud going on ? Seriously "leaders". Step... — read more
On Sabre's Culture
Sabre says they care about people and culture, but never forget that profits always come first. That is not unique to Sabre, but the fundamental nature of capitalism and investment. Our economy, and especially the trickle-down economic system we... — read more
What does the Google thing mean
So how will this affect our day to day?
Dumb or Desperate
CEO was dumb or desperate or both in hiring the current CHRO. She has a desk in the HR area but has very little interaction with anyone in HR other than her direct reports. She has said on numerous occasions that one of her pet peeves is that HR... — read more
IX to Iceland/Poland
IX is being sent off to Iceland/Poland was this not the flagship of AS last year for a game changer cloud solution? 2020, the year of the cheapest people and culture available.
HR leadership?
Why does CEO tolerate an overpaid and incompetent HR leadership who is disrespectful and demeaning towards their staff? 3 from failing dairy company Dean Foods (CHRO, SVP and Sr Dir) - 2 from failing retailer Michaels (VP and Sr Dir) - 2 from failing... — read more
Urgent! job openings
Did anybody notice all the Urgent! job openings at Sabre currently available? Just google "Sabre job openings" and a whole slew will show up. What's that all about?
LIttle to no VCP
In the Sean's SabreSync video it sounded like we can expect very little for VCP. Happy Holidays to you!
Rumors? Buyout/merger with Accenture?
Hearing sadly from outside Sabre about talks of possibly rebadging of some sabre employees with maintenance only products to Accenture.. anyone heard of it or know which products involved?
VCP this year
Any news, anybody?
Most of the QA engineers in SSPD team looking out for internal or external moment
Most of the QA engineers in SSPD/TSPD team looking out for internal or external moment because some frameworks are unnecessarily imposed on them. The cucumber java framework designed is not adding any value . It has unnecessarily increased the... — read more
2019 Year of People And Culture, Just Not American Culture
What are the chances of layoffs between now and Dec 31? DPMs are accelerating this year.
Offshore increase in hiring
Overheard a leader say that we are hiring 300 ppl in India via an intern program.. I’m speculating, but I’m guessing 300 in DFW will be going away soon...
AS FPM what is the thrue
Hi hello. Could some one tell something about the situation in fight plan manager? I heard about big plans, rewriting using java etc. But from the other hand the people leave the project. Has the fpm any feature or it is only maintenance?
Leader PQI
Will the December layoff be leaders who don't get a meets expectations in their PQI feedback?
LQI Process Thoughts
What are the thoughts on the LQI process? Is this a lever to layoff manager hierarchies to get management to India quicker?
Changes to PTO payouts
"effective October 28, 2019, team members on Sabre’s payroll will no longer receive pay out of earned but unused paid time off when they leave the Company, except where required by law." If anything is going to happen in terms of massive layoffs... — read more
Reorg thoughts? Good? Bad?
What do you think about this latest reorg? What city are you located in?
Singapore Airlines Leverages Sabre to Propel NDC Offering to Travel Agents
Stay positive! https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/singapore-airlines-leverages-sabre-to-propel-ndc-offering-to-travel-agents/
Court Ruling Revives a US Airways Antitrust Case Against Sabre
Guess Sabre should have kept those legal department assets?
AS Town Hall Today
What a sh–show that was. Our execs are very proud of their progress in nothing but buzzwords. Pushing the offshore agenda is their only eay of saving the company money. Board, wake up.
Any news on layoffs?
Has there been any mention of more future layoffs that I might have missed?
No wonder our "legal" department is so big.
https://skift.com/2019/08/20/texts-between-sabre-execs-about-farelogix-deal-fuel-u-s-antitrust-lawsuit/
legal...
close to 80 people in our legal department.. Ridicules priorities.
Boston Innovation Lab
I always find it interesting how Sabre spends the capital to build new things like the Boston Innovation Lab or buys another company that has the technology they want such as Intel Exchange but cannot keep our own in house products a float with the... — read more
CEOs for Employees
Pity SM didn't sign on to this: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2019/08/19/ceos-eight-dallas-fort-worth-companies-sign-rethink-meaning-shareholder-value
Sabre is becoming George Orwell's 1984 Novel
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sabre-corporation_becomingourbest-wearesabre-activity-6567630910643068928-8hkE So Sabre is now posting on LinkedIn how they have improved lives for those Employees who are taking Maternity/Paternally... — read more
Financials were BAD meanwhile Amadeus was great. Travelport lurking
It keeps getting deeper. Sabre sc-aping by while Amadeus is making double digit profits. Amadeus taking customers on the air side. American is next, mark my words. Travelport digging in deep for GDS/Distribution. What has happened?
Good experienced people once again let go
Last layoff was once again majority older folks and they were not 'dead wood'. Good experienced people were once again let go. Layoff was due to a loss suffered by Sabre yet those let go had nothing to do with the loss. 'We want people lining up a... — read more
Sabre Crashing Soon
Sabre pull your head out of your a–. Short term profit for long term loss. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
Sabre... Really? TPM/BA to a different org?
For so long time there was feedback that it is a bad idea to have a separate org for QAs/Testers. In some places it was even fixed - by merging devs and QAs into one org. But now - another split for the TPMs? Are the leaders deaf? Or - looking at... — read more
Fearless Leadee's Big Payday
No, not Kim Jong Un but close https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/sabre-corporations-nasdaq-sabr-ceo-104407105.html
Sh--ty company?
I'm on a dev conference now and I talk to people from different companies. And even they say that Sabre is a sh--y company driven by chaos and politics. Without any 'culture'... How come SM claims that culture is one of our greatest assets? Does it... — read more
Trust
How many times have we heard the head of HR say this is a company that wants to hire great people, develop them and keep them until the day they retire? How many times did we hear this is the year of the people? How do you expect to create trust when... — read more
Security department
Layoffs are happening in the security department today. The VP has been let go, he's leaving 8/1. Staff is being clobbered today. Not a big team though.