hiBatman is 'Spitting Nails" about FY 2023?

So much wrong I don't even know where to begin.

I know I'm not the only one who giggles at some of the silliness that surrounds us. And Batman and the people he celebrates are often a good source to inspire giggles. Yet now it's to the point of complete and total absurdity.

A week of major job cuts, not only another round here but also the entire tech sector. Months of these people seeming to not grasp the seriousness of Avayas situation. And HE is Spitting Nails? Does he even know what that expression means?

It's as if he is the persecuted one. He was the one who was wronged. And he is spitting mad about it. Unreal.

Your employed. Your paid to drive growth. Your not paid to act like you are a victim
Sorry. I don't want to trust a sales team to drive growth for the survival of my company via being Spitting Nails Angry. Who is going to buy from such an attitude?
The market who was duped by false financial reporting. The investors who were caught off guard. The channel partners who don't trust a word that I say. The channel people who lost their jobs (odd after CEO declared growth was to come from channel) Those are the people who should be spitting nails.

Please, Avaya. I'm so tired of being embarrassed.
(And yes, I know. People have told me how marketing brags about getting posts removed. So I know my words are temporary as they will control this post too, sadly). I just pray to stay employed through the holidays. And that my skills will be valuable beyond Avaya, as God knows my marketability is not in Avayas name, only in my skill set.

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Agree on the whole "internal" vs "external". The volume of posts about activity are concerning. Its as if these people do not know the basics of business. Like they beleive they personally drive value by executing the basic internal daily tasks. Volumness self promotion and self celebration with little regarding for market percption or, in avaya's case, realities.

So, essentially it's like "out of the mouth of babes"? Like how my wife makes comments about my mother and my toddler will blurt it out to my mother with no regard for context or audience? Got it.

If Avaya could succeed simply based on marketing people boarding planes and attending events, we'd be the most valuable company in tech based on the volume of the posts.

No one external to Avaya needs to know that Sales Kick Offs even exist, let alone when and what was discussed. Ever. That's basic etiquette. They expect and demand that we just make it happen, they don't need to know the tactics.

Yet that leads the broader issue of what my colleagues believe are appropriate for social media. It's one thing to express yourself it's another to do it with Avaya tagged. What annoys me the absolute most is posts about travel. I don't need to know that you boarded a plane. No client or partner needs to know anything other than results. And, why the heck is this even an issue. If one doesn't know this, why are they in roles?

The quote you're referencing came from Alan during yesterday's SKO. I feel for you...hope you make it through the holidays.

Sit back and collect your pay check, what will be will be, not point stressing about this sh-t pile

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