Thread regarding Open Text Corp. layoffs

The bots are back in force - you know what that means, layoffs time!

You pesky workers! We had a good thing going! All you had to do is go back to your dreadful office every day for the rest of your miserable life, get berated by management, enjoy whatever snacks we stole from the food bank down the road once a blue moon, hit your unrealistic goals and be happy with your current salary and position until the heat death of the universe!! Dont you see!? Most of you arent making us MONEY. Ah yes some of you are selling those pretty little products nicely, but not ALL of you! The Microfocus product hostage- I MEAN CLIENTS have began singing "dont fear the reaper" and "we ain't gonna take it" on renewal meetings! The ONE set of products we had people tied down for life with environments so complex they needed priests on a 24/7 rota to perform exorcisms just for them to work normally and Moses himself to return for a second time to lead a migration away from the products that will take fourty years of what feels like a trek in the Sahara desert and you pushed them away too?! What do you want ?! Was the shifty treatment, silencing and threats and lack of any sort of improvement of your day to day life under the rule of the great leader not enough for you ?! DO YOU STILL DESIRE MORE ?!

Now all joking aside, it seems someone from leadership got told on a meeting "by the way guys, there's this website, not sure if you know it, and the things they write about you there, ooooh boy.." and they remembered about this page's existence again. The last time the bots were pushing the 1984 agenda with its all peaches and daisies and flowers and roses and everyone loves us was right before the last layoffs. We already had a bunch of rumors here for the layoffs coming in October, but in my opinion the bots more or less confirm it. Not sure how it is in your office (and I haven't been to mine yet today) but the previous days the mood can only be explained as a disaster. Even colleagues that are typically positive are cursing the products they're working on.

If your reply contains the words "markets love us" and something equivalent to "absolutely agree, no layoffs confirmed by all powerful glorious leader" you hereby declare you are a bot.


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Post ID: @OP+1m2jzvavs

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@kk That was my take on Cohere. They have the approvals and the "in" and OT wants a piece of that action. Tried to do it on their own, failed, decided to partner instead.

Not a bad idea. He-l, probably the only marginally good decision I've seen in years from OT. Aside from kicking Mark to the curb, but that was the board.

So, partnership ain't bad in theory, provides access to important and valuable market segments. Prediction: the execution will fall apart in a mess of infighting and finger pointing among the ELT's egos.

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Post ID: @t4+1m2jzvavs

@j0 , no difference, company bots are as bad as the trolls.

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Post ID: @n5+1m2jzvavs

I'm not sure I'm buying this because I've not seen layoffs take a break yet in 4 years. Even when they arent in masses, people are being wfr'd in small groups constantly. It is the OT way.

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Post ID: @mn+1m2jzvavs

@js All companies are trying to milk the government on fear of recession and tariff. OT is not any exception. You go to Ottawa, govt office, and you will find n number of Opentext solutions been sold to them, and all are just picking dust. Now you know, why OT skill is under paid every where.

The Cohere partnership, last years Teranet and CGI partnerships are all focused on finding the right person who can milk govt on name of security, AI and tax payers charged without really getting any benefit.

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Post ID: @kk+1m2jzvavs

Cowho?
https://x.com/edzitron/status/2059781111207940372

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Post ID: @js+1m2jzvavs

You have to be kidding me. Those posts are trolls, not bots.

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Post ID: @j0+1m2jzvavs

If there's one constant in the universe, it's that on this site when the bot posts start happening, it's a harbinger of another "Day of the Long Knives". In this case, the firings (I won't call them layoffs) that were hinted on this site for October-November.

Every time, so far.

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Post ID: @e6+1m2jzvavs

And it's going to get worse. OT is not going to join the push for an AI slowdown, instead it just announced a partnership with Cohere for AI.

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Post ID: @de+1m2jzvavs

@OP, you are right. The kool-aid bots always turn up before a layoff. Nice spotting.

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Post ID: @bw+1m2jzvavs

Our leaders don't really know where the priorities are. CEO says margin isn't a problem, its the revenue thata the problem. CDO says, we need to improve margin and is driving teams to focus on costs while wanting to invest in sovereign and AI , which won't really see the ROI they think it would. CHRO says everything will become better if we implement RTO and layoff a couple of hundred more people and will throw McKinsey under the bus for even making that reco. CRO wants to chase every tiny deal. CPO - not sure what he does but definitely isn't driving product strategy or vision given how fragmented and disparate our product portfolio is ( blame the former CEO).

Everybody agrees on one thing. Do something with AI. Something ...even if it means drafting the damn email. Good luck everyone!

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Post ID: @bn+1m2jzvavs

AI;DR

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Post ID: @ag+1m2jzvavs

The markets love us

The energy in the office is incredible. We are hiring so many that HR can't keep up

Our stock price is heading up due to all the new customers

There are zero layoffs on the horizon as our CEO said on the town hall

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