Thread regarding CDK Global Inc. layoffs

Just to be clear, SOME of sales went to Switzerland for an award trip we work all year for. However, sales reps got a 25% increase in our quotas, a $40k pay cut, some bonuses totally eliminated and Directors got a $50k pay cut. I am very sorry non-sales people got SCREWED by Big Mac on your bonuses but sales was not except from him going b@!!s deep on us either. Good news is September 14th will be the end of the MacD era at CDK. Write it down.

Mass layoffs happened a few weeks ago. Many employees were called for a Webex video conference and they played a video to all at the same time telling them they were laid off. This was there last day. A video!

So ONE CDK means that the entire company gets paid only 68% of their bonus because we didn’t hit the profit numbers and at the same time sales is being rewarded for an outstanding job with two week trips for “presidents club” to Switzerland. Employee will be praying in kind with only 68% of their work effort. Installs are being scheduled KNOWING there are no people to install the products. Stores that are going live are making so with a single trainer where there would normally be several. Management is being forced to install to try to make up for shortfall. Many executives sold high quantities of company stocks on the same day. Shady.

Some people were actually terminated a week before the layoffs for performance reasons so they would not qualify for severance. That is shameful on its own. Also--what would be really interesting is how many people were over the age of 40 that were let go? In my humble opinion this would be a prima facie case of age discrimination. Sad but true. Amazing was the fact who got wrapped up on the layoff. I never thought I would see LR get the boot. I really feel bad for the ones who are staying. I'm sure performance will be zero because employees are not engaged in their work. Crazy---but isn't this the way the company has always been run?

Hearing as well that some laid off people are being given pay raises and allowed to keep severance. Helpsbdrive morale of people left even lower!

To the 'manager with the glazed eyes,' aside from the line of bull I have heard from a leader or two about how this was a reorg that resulted in a layoff, I feel sympathetic to many managers here they were thrust into this sh--storm. Talking to one new 'new' manager, they had no clue what plans were for reorg post layoff, and admitted they were not even sure they had a place at CDK moving forward. This was nearly a month after the layoff. As a 'survivor', the optimistic part of me hopes there are opportunities here moving forward for me, but I am looking elsewhere too. Now people are scrambling around trying to get work done with little to no support from management, especially the ELT.

One or two people with relationships at some big dealer groups have told me they are exploring ways to clue them in, not because they want to destroy CDK, but out of respect for our customers who deal with us, and rely on us to help them run their business. I was told they feel customers need to know why they are paying for substandard products and support. Whether or not they will, or have I do not know.

A few years ago, if you would have told me that ADP/CDK was in danger of being run into the ground, I would have been skeptical. We are the big player in our space. Now, with the brain drain and destruction of customer support, I genuinely feel that under these executives, there is a better than average chance CDK will go under.

As one of those managers with a “glazed look” in my eye I’ll admit: I am totally checked out. You see, our compensation is much more weighted on the stock and bonus side- which makes it difficult to just quit when things get this bad. I, like almost ever other person in management is waiting for our bonus along with stock vestment in sept to resign. S---s that the company went this way, but it had little to do with managers or directors.

All you read is correct. Managers left are running around with glazed looks, trying to figure out how to piece it all back together. Profitable products are having their product owners cut and the work done on the projects is grinding down, since nobody qualified is left to do some of the work. Customers are unable to get help from support because - wait for it - they cut support. The stock price after the big layoff in mid July to the start of August plummeted quickly from $67 to $61. Innovation no longer exists, they buy other companies instead of innovating. Management must either be cashing out what's left or they really are the dumbest most incompetent managers in the world.

All you read is correct. Managers left are running around with glazed looks, trying to figure out how to piece it all back together. Profitable products are having their product owners cut and the work done on the projects is grinding down, since nobody qualified is left to do some of the work. Customers are unable to get help from support because - wait for it - they cut support. The stock price after the big layoff in mid July to the start of August plummeted quickly from $67 to $61. Innovation no longer exists, they buy other companies instead of innovating. Management must either be cashing out what's left or they really are the dumbest most incompetent managers in the world.

It must already be sold. If not then they are shooting themselves in the foot and will get a much lower offer for this wounded (probably terminally) company.

I believe in karma and I really hope Ronald MacDonald and his Cronies get hit by the karma bus before they are able to run off with millions. What has happened to this company is shameful. There is absolutely zero morale left. Everyone is looking for a new job.

The “something else” that’s going on is a sale- everything points to it being announced before the end of sept. You don’t cut this deep, have execs that vacations the week after and not define go forward org structures of the cut was done because “they are listening”

Don’t work here!

One of the best posts yet. If they don’t bring people back, CDK won’t have any value to the market. Good luck selling a ship with no working bilge pumps.