Clearly, everyone is so anxious to tell the executives to their face how they really feel. The job market is so great no one will be intimidated or anything.
Why are they buttering us up before the next employee check-out?
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It would have been good if managers did this kind of "check-in" on a regular basis instead of through a one time corporate roll out. Who is going to benefit from this? The employees that are too scared to ask questions or the managers who are forced to sit through this and give pre-determined vague answers?
What should employees be doing to survive? Go.....
What a godsend!
Do they really think they can tell us something new about this company, where we are, and where we are going? How stupid do they think we are? Please, stay on floor 40-41, you got work to do (not that you know how)
Let me answer your number one and number two questions, so you all can stick with uncomfortable chatter about the weather and the Super Bowl at this "check-in":
Q) "Are layoffs coming after the earnings call?"
A) "Rest assured that while we intend to pull some levers, one of them possibly being the elimination of excess capacity to deliver human capital, we don't actually know which lever does what."
Q) "Will this be the last of the layoffs?"
A) "We have taken a comprehensive look at our varying business needs -- business needs and structures that have changed weekly over the past 18 months, and determined that we need to remain nimble in this challenged commodities environment. We need to continue investing in our people to drive quality and material resource capture and rigorously manage my...er...our portfolio."
Another blue jeans moment. The consultant that sold them this...saw him peddling fake Rolexes on Westheimer.