10% of CDKi to go - The cull has started
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Breaking News! For the first time in many years, within the next two days Keyloop will not make any stupid decisions as all leaders are off to a happyclapper conference.
The bathrobe will come in very handy as extra warmth now that we cannot afford to put on our heating. I may even wear the robe under my coat as I queue at the foodbank on an evening.
Others in the queue might think that I have just come from the local spa after a long hard day at work, commuting between the European states, India and Canada.
The loofah will fend off any potential muggers and contact with the KLT.
I hope Keyloop hasn't parted ways with all the people in France and Germany. The EU is looking at new legislation to protect European languages. This means that if you e.g. want to cooperate with Stellantis or MB, it requires all certifications to be done, for example, in French and German. Implementation is expected to start in 2025.
Did you like your bathrobe?
"Wellbeing Wednesday: The power of empathy in the workplace" ...... That just takes the biscuit. Not sure if it's irony or whether they're just trolling us now.
I really like the transparent Keyloop travel rules. Bringing multiple HR people from Europe to India instead of bringing one HR person from India to Europe makes so much sense, especially comparing to my £50 trip expenses to visit a customer onsite to resolve issues where declined.
@Newcomer - I've been with the company for nearly 30 years (Kerridge -> ADP -> CDK -> Keyloop) and the current levels of disruption/dissatisfaction are unprecedented. Maybe it's all part of the plan to shake up the company. Maybe it's all for the best. I'll leave smarter people than me to decide on that, but the likes of Tekion and Pinewood must be looking on with interest.
Keyloop is loosing OEM certifications across all brands and all markets. Alliances and Sales leaders + KLT are hiding this fact for employees and customers. Why do you think FP is trying to sell of Keyloop with BIG discounts? To avoid a zero value company when cancellations hit within the next two years, where certifications and contracts run out.
I’m new to Keyloop, so I hope to get some insights. In my whole career, which includes other FP owned companies, I’ve never experienced so many escalations as I have in Keyloop. Did you previously also have this amount of escalations?
F%&k it Friday........................... why do we see no posts for this day of the week
After more than two years of management, is there a customer who can be satisfied with at least one change to the product? Or at least in his business. Is there even one reason why customers say thank you? Because from meetings and parties around the world it emerges that everything and everyone is amazing.....it's been over two years, does anyone have any ideas on what two years means in the world of technology and software?
Correct, at Pinewood we are expanding rapidly both locally and globally. Interested in joining? Reach out to us on hr@pinewood.co.uk
New positions opens faster than we can get them online :)
The keyloop leadership belief that they can treat their customers so badly as there is nowhere to go is really going to sm--k them in teeth with this announcement. If you don’t look after your customers someone else will. I know of several major groups wanting out as quickly as possible.
https://www.am-online.com/news/technology/2023/09/18/dms-firm-pinewood-to-target-uk-and-us-dealerships-after-pendragon-acquisition
Open goal!!
https://www.am-online.com/news/acquisitions-and-deals/2023/09/18/usa-s-lithia-motors-to-buy-pendragon-in-250m-deal
Beginning of the end?
That comment has so much empathy and caring it must of come from HR or C Suite. Loop the Loop wellness September. 🤣🤣
No, it’s called business. Plus, if you only got 2.7% increase you can’t be doing very well given the pot per manager was effectively 4% of all salaries within the team. Sounds like your spending too much time moaning, and not enough working.
So we put customer prices up by 10%, but we're only getting a 2.7% payrise ........ UK customers might want to talk to the Competitions and Markets Authority as given Keyloop's near monopolistic position in the market this is blatant profiteering.
Totally agree with the Chief People Officer comments - clueless - would be better off deployed down the nags head.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaef3827-fc57-4e3b-a1d8-f20e422b6c66
Wonder when/if Keyloop friends at am-online will run the story on the high profiled CPO leaving Keyloop and how it will look. Tom’s explaination sounds like BS to be honest.
Chief Product Officer that failed to release a single successful product over their term will be the reason. Impotent product and engineering capability continues. Another death nail towards the fire sale.
Be nice
Makes you wonder what the Chief People Officer has got to do to get the boot. JAF 1 was a total disaster. JAF 2 is shaping up to be not much better. She can barely string a coherent sentence together. She's got all the empathy and compassion of a Na-i gas chamber guard. Her judgement is, at best, questionable. Surely she can't stay much longer??????
Shame Elena's leaving - at least she made an effort to try and understand the business instead of just assuming she knew best.
Watts ? Or someone as well?
Who's gone now?????
Another One Bites the Dust
Today I attended a meeting with the highest director in my area. The person tried to be funny, laughing all the time, but people were not laughing. The person also tried to explain different things, but the lack of knowledge in the area was really showing, so combine that with the laughing and you get a really Big jerk/clown that in that meeting threw the last confidence from the team over board. My own manager mentioned that it was not the best performance he had seen of that director.
If all of the responsible persons for all of Keyloops disasters should stand up for it, then all ELT, KLT, SLT and what ever they are called be gone. Yes, that might not be that bad an idea.
Will the person responsible for the decision to move to Netsuite please stand up and take responsibility for the absolute disaster of an implementation process that we are now seeing. Was there any actual diligence done before the decision was made to move to Netsuite, if so please publish this, or was it all down to underhand dealings and untested assumptions?
I can't really see FP funding another round of redundancies (business wide). Surely it would make more sense to sell the business as is and leave it to any future investor to make cuts or pick up a redundancy tab.
Wonder if FP signed the manifest and whether TK would do it if he was presented to it….????
https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans
Prepping up for sale next year
When will these layoffs be announced?
Next round of layoffs being planned to be effectuated in Q4 to ensure numbers such as margin look at year end/start next year. All to make FP happy and Empoyees and Customers unhappy.
All departments seems to be in danger.
I'm sure they developed something a few years ago that reliably converted KCML to Java or something. Nothing ever came of it being put to doing anything useful afterwards.
Retrain? Yeah, right! Given the track record of this company they’ll just be thrown on the scrap heap.
Wow, talk about being negative! How about emphasising the fact that those KCML devs might get the opportunity of getting retrained in those more modern technologies.
They're looking at using generative AI to convert all the KCML code into a more mainstream language/toolset. All the KCML devs might want to start brushing up their CVs!