I have heard that senior leadership is now acutely aware of the talent that has been shown the door (or found it themselves) and is taking a very hard look at the Pepsi/offshore ratio compared to the increase in MIM/outage hours. Supposedly new waves of cuts have been put on hold for now and all eyes are turning to JD as she struggles to keep her job.
Anyone heard similar?
I highly doubt they have had a sudden epiphany, and everything will return to the good old PBG days. You can have a highly skilled, highly motivated, experienced internal team. Or, you can have the incompetent script reading drones that is HCL. Either way, somehow the sugary poison garbage will make it to the store shelves and the cheapest labor route there wins
They don't care. My replacents could not do a single thing right. It took 5 people to do my work. I walked out as what ik and her sidekick DJ has done to enrich their brethren is beyond corruption. They sold the company inside out hariki style.
A huge shame overall.
How jd got to where she did was to play with her handlers to make business for them. She have below average IQ to make the decisions we are seeing. She is fed the decisions by the Indian companies and well rewarded too.
Here is my experience with off-shoring: As I was training my replacement, I could tell they were nervous. The people I was training made it clear that they thought they were overwhelmed already. They would constantly tell me this is not in their job description, and not part of their job. I would correct them, and tell them, if they are going to replace my team, then this is part of their job.
I could see the high stress, and anxiety. I used to tell them, "this is nothing.Wait until your on your own, and have to engineer a new solution for every problem." In fact all of the people I trained, took off for better jobs/less stress after completing my training. When they let me go, another team had just started training. I got the feeling that senior management didn't get the big picture. Many of my co-workers were doing much more work than their job description.
When I was about ready to leave, I was asked to stay longer and train new replacement for the other team that just left. I told my manager, that it didn't make a difference, if I stayed, this team would probably leave first chance they had, and the pattern would just repeat itself. Wouldn't you leave? I got the feeling most of these folks were just looking for something to put on their resumes, get some free training, and move on. They were more interested in working on their resume, than learning. This is typical of contractors/temps. Who doesn't want to work as a FTE, as opposed to a temp? I've seen this at other companies, and it didn't end well at those companies.
I really hope for the best for everyone. I've always felt, that if we ALL had all worked together, we could have accomplished big things. Everyone would have won, and prospered, but a few individuals just got greedy, and ruined everything. Good luck to all of you.
Is it possible responses to 'The PepsiCo Way' survey calling out multiple IT issues and failures under JD's tenure, i.e. the move toward a shared services approach, the last couple years are now just starting to be acknowledged? The dysfunction we've seen is only the tip of the iceberg if her approach continues. Sure, she can sway metrics to make it look like the changes are contributing to the bottom line but when you ask the masses about their experiences, it's a completely different story. It takes time to turn a large vessel as it approaches a storm. Is it possible PepsiCo's captain sees what lies beyond the horizon and is considering an alternate direction?
totally untrue , there is absolutely no turning point , restructurations will go on , it s as simple as that.
All difficulties are very good researched and calculated years upfront. All scenario s were calculated.
It's almost criminal to give people eventually false hope .
By the way : feedback is maybey listened but never taken into account at Pepsico.
As much as I want this to be true, surely they wouldn't let her organise another town hall if she was about to get the boot?
Had the great proclaimers of giving feedback actually listened to it, they could have saved all this heartache years ago. Self destruction was only a matter of time. When the situation gets critical, IT will enter a rebuilding phase that will take years and literally billions of dollars to recover while the company erodes internally. It was an extremely stupid leadership move that absolutely nobody agreed with. This lady did not have a clue and seemed to change the game at every town hall. The joy for ex employees will be flooding social media with "I told you so" feedback. One of the hallmarks of excellent leadership is listening to feedback and standing firm on an unwavering commitment to employee integrity and loyalty, this company did neither. It will go down as one of the biggest leadership screw ups for a large corporation in recent memory.