Thread regarding Avaya layoffs

The Company expects to report a significant decline in revenue as well as significant impairment

To all you arseholes who Gaslit anyone who spoke up....this is your day to be shamed. To the brave person(s) who ignhted this Layoff board with honest posts, which encouraged open and transparent dialogue, Bravo. You were spot on!

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The Company expects to report a significant decline in revenue as well as significant impairment charges related to its intangible assets, and consequently, will report a significant decrease in operating income and a significant increase in net loss, for the year ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the year ended September 30, 2021. However, the Company is unable to provide reasonable estimates of revenues, gross profit, operating income and net loss or the amount of the impairment charges at this time as the Company continues to focus on completing the Audit Committee investigations and assessments noted above and has not completed its financial close process and controls for the applicable period.
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As previously disclosed in the Company’s NT 10-Q (the “12b-25”) filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 9, 2022, Part III of which is incorporated herein by reference, the audit committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Company’s board of directors commenced internal investigations to review, among other things, the circumstances surrounding the Company’s financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 and items related to a whistleblower claim. The Audit Committee investigations remain on-going. The investigations may also result in the conclusion by the Company that one or more material weaknesses exist in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting in addition to those disclosed in the Company’s Form 8-K filed on November 30, 2022. The Company is also continuing to complete its assessment of the previously disclosed impairment charges related to the Company’s long-lived assets as well as its intangible assets, including the Avaya Trade Name and the goodwill related to the Company’s Services reporting unit. As a result of the foregoing and other closing activities, the Company requires additional time to complete its review of its financial statements and other disclosures as of June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022, and to complete its annual closing processes and controls, and is unable to file its Annual Report on Form 10-K on or prior to the prescribed due date of November 29, 2022.

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Post ID: @OP+1jX5D9g6

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SPOT. ON. 12/13/22

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Post ID: @dxzd+1jX5D9g6

the past was full of fraud, remember Carli Fiorina and the vendor financing to Sprint and Winstar

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Post ID: @1rmr+1jX5D9g6

Per the post below re: Lucent shareholder class action:

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Portnoy Law Firm advises Avaya Holdings Corp ("Avaya" or "the Company") (NYSE: AVYA) investors that the firm has initiated an investigation into possible securities fraud and may file a class action on behalf of investors. Avaya investors that lost money on their investment are encouraged to contact Lesley Portnoy, Esq.

They won't be, but Avaya leadeers should be ashamed. It's appalling those Avaya leaders/managers/VP's responsible for this messand have run Avaya and its reputation into the ground, are the ones keeping their jobs and laying off the workforce to pay for their total incompetence.

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Post ID: @1rxb+1jX5D9g6

Poor accounting is in Avaya's roots. How can we forget the deceitful CEO,Rich McGinn who deliberately over-stated Lucent's revenues to over-inflate the share price (and ensuing shareholder class-action)?
'...In November 2000, the company disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had a $125 million accounting error for the third quarter of 2000, and by December 2000 it reported it had overstated its revenues for its latest quarter by nearly $700 million.'

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Post ID: @1jgp+1jX5D9g6

"They have now successfully destroyed two of the greatest telecommunication brands in a matter of 2 decades." - You can blame Silverlake TPG for that - We had $1.6B in the bank and no debt at the time we were bought, and they leveraged the firm with $6.9B in debt to buy us. Did not use a cent of their own money. The company has been playing whack-a-mole with the debt since.

Sad where greed got us.

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Post ID: @lqy+1jX5D9g6

It's OK though Batman and Bimbo are up for the fight. AEP (not the experience Portal) but the other one will save the day.
I have never heard so much sh--e being talked about. Alan came in with a great story of how will save everyone and now looks to be from the same mould as previous managers.
If we were in a horse race we would of been shot a long time ago to put us out of our misery.

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Post ID: @cdy+1jX5D9g6

I can not believe this, yet another lie from senior leadership. They said we are going to file a clean report in few weeks (wrong), they said be prepared to win (report now of significant revenue loss again), we had to do layoffs but was told "I think we did it with respect to our workers and equitably" (do you call you will lose access at end of day respectable and 4 weeks of severance equitable?) I wonder what will be said in the next town hall.

I am just so disappointed that we invested not only our careers but lives in this company and we have had senior leadership time and time again that are unable drive the boat and lead us to decline, from all the Avaya leaders to the ones at Nortel.

They have now successfully destroyed two of the greatest telecommunication brands in a matter of 2 decades.

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Post ID: @pbu+1jX5D9g6

Any of us (who don't work under the bizarro world marketing B S) have known this for at least 18-24 mos. If Avaya had a proper HR or Ethics process, we would have filed concerns. Yet we all know Avaya does not have a proper avenue to follow NYSE and SEC rules for reporting concerns. This is no shock.
Alan Masarek can't Harvard his way through the mess that was made.

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Post ID: @okq+1jX5D9g6

@blackrock.....No FUD, this is taken from Avaya SEC filing.

https://investors.avaya.com/financial-info/sec-filings/default.aspx

I am one of the lucky few that is taking a settlement payout. Just waiting for everything to be agreed and can then move on. After 20+ years working for AT&T, Lucent and Avaya I am so upset the way the so called Leadership team and finished one of the greatest brands in telecommunications.

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Post ID: @lls+1jX5D9g6

As of right now, Avaya is below the one dollar per share magic number. The pop we got when Alan was hired didn't last very long.

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