Anything positive, anything at all to cling on for or should Avaya swing from a tree and die.
Everything is miserable.
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Bob
Where is the training org in this company. Without trained professional how it is expected to execute the new strategy.
Does the new CEO knows that once an employee is hired in Avaya he won't be trained to survive & left alone.to be used by breauracrats consisting 75% of the organisation. Hence beaurcrats test to outsource to partners and get under the table as required
Partners contribute 60% of the company & around 40% junk hired....
Perm have been reduced already & still in process of removal. Who is monitoring rest of 60% partner junk force for cost saving. Or it is a strategy to fool investors & board members. Where entire 60% junk is of partners with no value add
Ceo must be smart enough to not fooled by subordinates given false perceprion.
Wrong people in power are laying off right people. Avaya will only be left with perm beauracrats to earn money via outsourcing business to partners, to run business with out any Avaya control on market
Execution of plan is the major issue with Avaya since 25 yrs due to beauraucracy. Bottom line never get the hunch of strategy agreed on top, hence execution failures since 25 yrs..
Train your own people adequately to execute the strategy otherwise let partner drive this company.
What a joke beauraucrats being given power to execute layoff. Right & productive employees have been laid off.
Wrong employees are still in power & doing nothing
Organisations will end up in failed org with wrong people .
New CEO is being fooled & given wrong perception about org status. There won't be any execution on new plans & strategy all will go I vain
God bless this company .
After being moved onto a cloud project that no one understands and asked to build this and that with zero training, just confluence pages thrown together by people that have left or were not interested, it is finally time to start to look for something else.
Now, to redo a CV after a long time.
Any tips or advice please.
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He-l I'm still waiting to find out if the layoff rumors are happening in the U.S.
Isnt ironic that the same people who were pro Avaya before the leadership change are the ones claiming anyone who has a brain is off base and dramatic? Aren't these the people who missed the obvious before it became known to the world? Hard to listen to them. The past 6 mos (since May 10) should not have been a shock to anyone who had been internal to Avaya. If it was, then they are the wrong people for Avaya.
Also, the above is not accurate. It is not simply about the bankers making money. It is about layers of mis-reporting. Its not "bankers". It is high level lenders. Complicated lenders. Negotiating very complicated deals in a very tumultuous market with limited resources and the highest levels of interest rates. And then, there are the regulators.
Are you aware that the SEC has to accept Avaya's filings? The audit teams will be audited themselves. Each and every layer will be heavily scrutinized, and not just to get the deal deal finalized. This is moving forward. Avaya is currently in a "time out" period, where they requested extensions to gather the information and find the most honest, transparent and realistic starting point for IF they are able to give it a go.
Im perplexed by people believing that since Avaya still bills customers that it essentially pays for itself to stay in business. Avaya's money is not theirs. They are not private. They are not debt free. Every dollar costs several dollars. Does Avaya have potential? Certainly. Is it as simple as a new CEO and clients who remain. No way. Not even close. So beyond off base it is almost pathetic that an employee believes that spin above.
Melodrama? My goodness. Stop bullying anyone who doesn't drink your tainted Kool-Aid.
Great question. Fair question.
Yes. There is hope. Real hope. Yet the financials need to be approved and Avaya needs to be given the green light to begin a new.
I'm sorry for the condensending walking soundbytes. I do not know why they don't know how to eat crow.
It boils down to the following.
The Lenders like what Masarek has laid out and agree to support.
If they support, Masarek can finally have his Day 1. None of the noise or the positive mental attitude mean anything until Masarek can have his Day 1.
And Day 1 will look nothing like today. The entire playbook will be thrown out and he will reset Avaya.
That is Avayas Best, and frankly, only Hope.
That will mean no more teams of people who just have jobs. It will be keen leaders who knows how to surgically focus. Who knows how to optimize resources and drive results. There will be no Kumbuya My Avaya. It will be business. Results. Critical thinkers. Lean. Focused.
You know what, if you want to get all melodramatic, hop over to the Twitter area.
Yes there are issues, but there is now a leader who says something and does it. There is a good customer base, that want to stay and work with Avaya to move forward, we have a clear path for the future, and it looks like we are starting to get some cooler tech to play with.
The only thing left unresolved is the investors and the banks. If they are shown a clear way to get their money back and also make some they will back down.
Yes it's tough watching friends go, and also living with these issues, but we don't yet have the basket case mentally on display at Twitter.