Can someone from IT please provide details of what was discussed at Saul’s(Head of IT) netting today? Will be out of office.
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He is not qualified to be the Head of IT. Not sure how long it will take for the BOD and Charlie and Top Share Holders to realize that.
he does not know know to mute a cell phone, rather unprofessional?
he went to a conference and his biggest takeaway is that e-commerce is here to stay. the.head.of.IT.said.this
sadly pathetic
It would be a rather "pleasant" environment, the Technologies department, except for all of the layoffs that are occurring, or are planned to occur in the future.
An hour of my life that I will never get back.
Personally I do like Saul's meetings. I think he tries to add in a little humor to keep it from being too boring. His meeting today was somewhat encouraging to those left in Technology. The technology college for free learning! That is a really good thing. Not paying to take training courses in IT.
New applications developed should be able to be transferred to the CLOUD right away, that will take some new training to accomplish. Agile is in high demand now for jobs at other companies, to have Agile experience. People are leaving because they find a better job at other companies, he did say. Snow in NY, calls about severe storm warning, with lot's of snow and potential for power outage and bad driving conditions, etc. guess I would not want to turn off my phone either as the emergency information is a need to know. It is good he plans for even more Technology employees to be full time internal employees and not contract employees!!!! He is rather funny, with the cricket and the coffee sipping. Seems to be a very down to Earth type of person. No acting. Just who he is and what he is really like.
Where does Saul and WF get all the gibberish/buzzwords? He seems pretty enthused about all sorts of random nonsense and magical thinking. I think we are seeing the peak of this guy's career.
now, I am not sure, but I saw a guy that looked like Saul doing that tik tok shuffle on the tik toc app
From looks looked the same but not sure on this.
Saul is a glorified scrum master/project manager playing a part of the Head of IT. Not exactly sure how he got to the top here in WF. He must be really good friends with Charlie and or someone from BOD. He tries so hard to appear like he is just a regular guy who understands us. Him announcing every time that he is about to take a sip of coffee to appear that he is just a regular JO who drinks coffee just like you and me looks so fake that I really want to puke. All the hand gestures and making faces, he is really not a good actor.
lmao – nice summation from OP. I wasn't on this call. But apparently he gets a call from somebody all the time, but it's not for him and he doesn't know why they keep calling him. I mean come on Saul, turn off the ringer before the call.
Interesting tid bits on architecture. It must be on radar for now given he was on an architecture call last week.
@kjh, Priceless! Thank you for that. :-)
come on! all this talk an no action , mean nothing!
did he say if all the jobs are moving to India or more than 80%
You would also think he would know being in technology a public cloud isn’t such a great idea either.
So.... basically nothing new? Ok, thanks for the update. That was an hour saved of my life.
See, he did mention the cricket!
For someone in technology you would think he would know that he can turn the ringer off on his phone. . .
Phone call from police
Minutes:
Coffee and a snow storm
Toughest year ever
IT did a lot
Wifi everywhere
Service Now
Cloud and Data Center, product launches etc.
More 2020 accomplishments
2020 worst year ever, but we are thankful
Natural disasters, politics, covid and he is sorry
Take time when you need it
Stay strong for 2021
Return to the office out until at least March 1
Has no clue about vaccine program
Deep breath
Performance review question: Managers are in the process until December 16, shaking numbers, meetings in January
Compensation meetings in last weeks of January
February effective date for bonus, Comp etc
He personally prefers quarterly feedback rather than yearly
Tech tools question: retiring in January
No clue on rationale for decision
Service now on schedule for Q3 2021
More coffee with Margie
Agile communication question: Buzzwords and platitides (sorry)
A wierd description of architecture
A ringing phone happens
Decision making processes on architecture
Product domain super buzzwords
The history of architects
Hand gestures
Need to work on it
Charlie's loud speaker or suggestion box
Charlie cares
We are listening and care
Hand gestures
Buzzword salad
Suggestion box coming Q1 in pilot
We try to respond to questions and concerns
Future of banking question: Chin scratching and a description of the innovation team
Here is what the customer needs. R&D are listening
Digital cash used as an example
Distributed ledger explanation
15 year outlook on core banking
AIML space description
Lots of buzzword and acronym salad
AI talk
Quantum discussion
A lot of words
Hand gestures
Loves quantum
Figuring out where to invest
C-sino analogies
Scale hand gestures
Laughing at his incredibly long and winding answer
And......I'm spent. Lost interest.
Ai can be biased but there is ai to run against the ai to remove bias
there are plans, they may change
moved from 64% employees to 70 something....should be 80% soonish
Can someone provide an update on his yoga?
It’s gonna snow in NY
Saul got a phone call from Amazon
No return to the office before March 1st, 2021.
A big rah rah pat himself on the back session so far.
Netting is a good way of putting it.
It just started
Crickets