https://www.wral.com/business/sas-promotes-gavin-day-coo-may-2025/
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OK, here’s a side note. Some of you folks need to brush up on your idioms. “Sour grapes” refers to disparaging what you couldn’t obtain; to assert that it’s in fact not really worth having. It’s not disparaging the one who got what you didn’t get.
hope
There's that word again. At this point, I think it's pretty clear that hope is lost. I understand wanting to remain at SAS if you're close to retirement. I understand not wanting to lose your job and have to search for a new one in this economy, as an older worker, etc. I understand retiring in place. I understand adjusting your productivity to your level of comfort with SAS as a company, or your compensation.
But I don't understand the perpetual pull people at SAS feel toward this idea that whatever hasn't worked in the past and isn't working now will work in the future, if we just stick it out, give it enough time, make it work. That's a delusion. I don't know that the company has ever been here before, so maybe hope is all there is left, but to me it seems that there is no hope as long as SAS keeps making its problems worse. Decoupling compensation from performance is one of the worst things a company can do, and even the appearance that the performance review process is not fair is a massive drain on morale and toxic to the "work like a startup" mentality that SAS leadership tries to get the rank and file to embrace.
I wouldn't expect anything else. At this point, if you want to help SAS you have to recruit from outside. Not another mediocre SAS veteran whose reason for getting the job has more to do with the ability to stroke JG's ego than actual talent.
@d0+1jt7d6hvf Then please explain what you mean by tech bro since you clearly lumped GD into that category and credited that for why he has the job.
I honestly don’t know what you mean. Maybe just that he is a man and shouldn’t have the job because of that?
Teach me your ways…
I just found a new R package that has the functionality of the product I supported. You can't beat free!
@cv+1jt7d6hvf woah. Who said anything about race or color? I consider the CEOs of Microsoft, Tik Tok, and Nvidia to be Tech Bros. To my knowledge, and last I checked, they are not white men.
“ Another "Tech Bro" got another C-suite position. How groundbreaking.”
What does that even mean? That he shouldn’t get it because he is a white male?
“ Being a sycophant at SAS gets you far.”
being a sour grape on thelayoff.com gets you nowhere.
If you feel like you can do better then do better.
Another "Tech Bro" got another C-suite position. How groundbreaking.
I think this is a good move for SAS. Before I retired I worked with GD often. Thoughtful, down to earth, approachable.
Being a sycophant at SAS gets you far.
Isn't this old news? It feels like musical chairs with these C level folks.
Who cares? Another figurehead. Nothing will change.
Hopefully Gavin does a better job than the previous COO with respect to listening to customers. That is largely what got us into this mess and addressing that deficiency key to get us out of the current mess. I just hope it is not too late.
Promotion means he got a raise. Almost no one else got a raise because 'Merica but SAS give the already wealthy C team members raises. Nice.