Thread regarding CDW layoffs

@t8
Lawyer ruined her own marriage too!

Lawyers ruin everything they touch. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/economics_facpubs/70/

Chris Does Worse than any of her predecessors in everything. She’s a laughing stock in the industry.

It used to be a happy place.Hard work, good friends, some laughs and success. Now it’s watch your back, hidden agendas, and out of touch leaders who are bleeding the place. A culture leader could still turn it around but not likely to happen.

Another set of AI meetings and another set of technical issues and losing places on the script

@k6 I mean let's face it - their "strategy" is something almost anyone can come up with and these guys are getting paid a lot of money to come up with stuff like this garbage for a Town Hall. Think of all the money wasted in coworker time/salary attending this meeting too.

It's just a bunch of people in an ivory tower spouting platitudes with a little "rah, rah" thrown in while the rest of us are the ones who actually make it happen.

And if you're reading this Mukesh, blink3 times rapidly in your next presentation so we know you're OK and not being held hostage. :D

Wow. Not sure I have ever seen a thread with this many upvotes and virtually no down votes. Not one person saying "I think they did a nice job of presenting / speaking". Nobody coming in and saying "You missed it when they said X which was so impactful". I have yet to see a "I disagree, I thought that town hall was great".

@gh 1000% accurate!

@gh Buzzwords, fluff, and fake smiles - the hallmark of empty suit execs everywhere.

Remember when if we were going to roll out an initiative, we would have a contest, incentive, SPIF, or bonus ready to pair with it to drive Sales?

Remember when if we were going to speak to an initiative we had real world examples, customer success stories, seller testimonials, or anything that made it real and not just a bunch of lectures, read scripts, fancy world salad and theories from Executives.

Remember when our speakers actually took questions and/or clarified what they were talking about in case it was unclear?

Remember when at least one of the speakers on any call like this actually had sold something before at CDW?

Such a huge disconnect here. None of these Execs actually know how to speak with our Sellers, speak their language or connect with them. The scary part is that these Execs will drive ZERO new activity but they will find a way to take credit for the stuff we already sell and say something like "look, AI PowerPlays drove $100M in new business".

This sh-t was HILARIOUS. I was literally angry while listening to this sh-t yesterday. I know NO idea what any of this was that they were talking about.. what our “AI” plan is.. zero examples.. zero information geared toward my position at the company.. it was just buzzword bullsh-t.

What they don’t realize is AI is just the current prevailing paradigm in IT industry. They act like they just discovered electricity or something and that their training is extra enlightening. In reality, they are just simpletons who were rejected by their last employers.

@a1 - Would it be worse if you knew they did?

Liz actually stopped and had to start again and said "I lost my place " then started reading again.

When Mukesh popped in, it was actually startling! Big head, much bigger than the rest. And watching Liz looking down toward the bottom of her screen, eyes moving from right to left was hysterical. Hang was the best though. He looked so bored and so sorry that he ever came here. Well, go on back to HP, where all the d-mbest people in the industry try to sell the d-mbest products in the industry. Total joke.

I remember when most of our Senior Leaders were former Sales people and:
1) Felt comfortable speaking in public
2) Actually knew what they were talking about when telling a Seller how to sell something
3) Understood what an Account Manager actually did every day
4) Could just talk to an audience of Coworkers and feel personable

Yes, key roles like our CIO/CTO, head of legal, CMO, etc. should come from the outside and/or have actual experience from their area of expertise. But outside of that, why did we stop rotating great leaders to key roles? I think one thing that made CDW special was how many of our Leadership roles were filled by one-time Account Managers. It gave hope you could grow at / with CDW and it made sure everyone stayed grounded.
This townhall today was just a reminder of how disconnected the Ivory Tower has become from the front line people.

@a3 Prerecorded and very obviously reading from a script too.

@a9
But remember they just had a 2 day summit...

"The smartest 2 days in tech" 🤣

Glad I quit the dumpster fire. How these C level and SVP's are still employed is beyond me.

I guess the Board of Disaster are also fake unqualified id--ts as well.

CDW is faking Ai like they faked trying to be services 1st instead of maintaining what got the company to $20 billion.

Our CEO is trying so hard and just failing on everything except firing people and having people hate working for the company.

BUT when you look at LinkedIn...the fake people left are just gaslighting everyone with their posts.

Makes me 🤮

@a6 It came across like he was reading a note as a hostage.

Total circus

This whole call was a microcosm of the current state of affairs here.....our leaders can't even run a conference call without messing up, proceed to boringly read off a script and then just verbal salad buzzwords anyway.

Remember when our leaders could hold a call and actually speak for an hour without having to read a prompt the whole time? What a clown show.

A lot of jabbering to say nothing at all really. You can tell AI wrote their scripts because we got zero functional detail on what our AI strategy really is. What are those 70+ services we supposedly offer?

Mukesh must have been too busy to speak to us live. His segment was pre-recorded, if you didn't notice.

I would say not remembering to come off mute is excusable on a normal conference call. When you are presenting to an audience this large and you are one of 3 speakers, that seems like a really bad mistake.

My favorite part of these town halls are the abundant technical issues. Do they practice these beforehand?