Thread regarding Cengage layoffs

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@2b0 how do those boots taste?

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Post ID: @2bh+1kn3x05m6

@2b0 got another what?

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Post ID: @2b1+1kn3x05m6

@29f Good to know they got another one! Bye

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Post ID: @2b0+1kn3x05m6

@29f and if you tell people? I assume they made it part of your severance agreement, which is BS. Shady business practices.

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Post ID: @2a9+1kn3x05m6

Didn’t get the invite, probably because I’ve been made redundant - have been told not to tell anyone, which means I can’t reach out to industry contacts to find work. This ridiculous ship is sinking fast

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Post ID: @29f+1kn3x05m6

Don’t forget to attend #Adulting - Surviving to Thriving this Wednesday.

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Post ID: @28b+1kn3x05m6

Eerily quiet.

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Post ID: @28a+1kn3x05m6

@1fh you knew? And did nothing? Send out the alarm. This ship is going down, bail as soon as you can. The whole place is going under.

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Post ID: @1qf+1kn3x05m6

I knew April-May would be a bloodbath. That's what happened last year when the Fiscal Year started.

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Post ID: @1fh+1kn3x05m6

@1ek all of who???

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Post ID: @1fb+1kn3x05m6

@1cn all of them. They are all gone! The whole company is shutting down. It’s dire - get out while you can.

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Post ID: @1ek+1kn3x05m6

@1c6 how many did they boot?

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Post ID: @1cn+1kn3x05m6

@1ac bloodbath
True to form they smoked the high achiever from Gale. Keeping all the dregs

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Post ID: @1c6+1kn3x05m6

@1af

'New roles'

'Less roles'

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Post ID: @1ax+1kn3x05m6

@1ac what's going on?

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Post ID: @1af+1kn3x05m6

And now they come for EMEA sales...

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Post ID: @1ac+1kn3x05m6

Making existing employees apply to their current jobs sounds a lot like what that ginger woman in CA made a bunch of employees do once. I am not shocked that they fired the guy in Asia. That is Cengage's loss.

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Post ID: @132+1kn3x05m6

@q0 interesting
This comment appears when Apollo is mentioned. The chairman of Apollo is a bit uncomfortable at the moment.
Do your own research as i don’t have a death wish
Just google it or “claude it “ or better yet “Gemini it”

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Post ID: @q4+1kn3x05m6

@pz this looks like a scam
The rest of it I buy but this, no

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Post ID: @q0+1kn3x05m6

@OP Interesting. This site is rather varied.Lots of anger an resignation. The Cengae management probably has no idea that it exists. We are. A uk labour relations think tank lioking at Apollo and what they have down with their aquisitions. Wenare trying ro understand this end stage exit phase.
. The Asia stuff on this thread is rather shocking as it seems a bit of a cartoon in regard to complete disregard to people who create value. The number of posts seem to indicate there is a measure of real substance. Thanks to everyone for posting!

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Post ID: @pz+1kn3x05m6

Are you sure he wasn’t told to deeply discount / pull up the sale to this fiscal year so the head of Asia sales… up to NK could show that they made their number and therefore bonus?… and possible IPO? Something smells fishy on management. Taking a playbook from the US HED!!

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Post ID: @nw+1kn3x05m6

The Asia guy story is true. I checked because it sounded unbelievable ! What a mess.

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Post ID: @nn+1kn3x05m6

The hunger games of people applying for jobs they already have due to the restructuring feels reminiscent of project horizon again. So stressful for those involved.

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Post ID: @mz+1kn3x05m6

Apparently in asia the gale guy brought $5 million in on the last day saving the Cengage Asia’s number ( ELT and HE Asia had missed by millions) . What do you think happened to him on April 1st? They fired him and promoted the people who had tanked the year. You cant make this sh*t up. Shameful even by Cengage’s usual shoddy behaviour. Moral to the story: new executives who don’t know a market claim credit for people delivering and promote toadying underlings

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Post ID: @mv+1kn3x05m6

First Friday Slack channel seems awfully quiet.

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Post ID: @mc+1kn3x05m6

Last week of March, they fired some CMs and the Research director. That's all I know of. Some reorg happened in the global content production and research team at that time.

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Post ID: @mb+1kn3x05m6

What positions are being eliminated?

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Post ID: @m9+1kn3x05m6

@kx employees are told to apply for jobs? yikes. Some of my colleagues are becoming bolder in expressing their frustrations, even to leadership. I think they're ready to leave and already applying, so they're not scared anymore.

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Post ID: @ky+1kn3x05m6

@j0 people positions are being eliminated and now people are being told to apply for jobs that they already do which are now between two business units that have been amalgamated which means people have to fight people to keep their jobs

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Post ID: @kx+1kn3x05m6

What’s the context to this? Let us know what you’ve been hearing.

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Post ID: @j0+1kn3x05m6

Anyone seen Squid Game on Netflix? Definitely feels like that...expect there's no massive cash price at the end.

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