Does anyone know where Sandy went? Fired or resigned? (may have been covered here but) Brian Sweeny is gone as of last month. Any more expected executive departures from the old guard? Paul, James, Shannon .... I'm looking at you.
The Hunger Games
Besides the people that were let go, the impact on their families and this ever changing landscape, where it is difficult to find a new job, there are other casualties as well: Work that will fall on the decimated teams, survivors guilt, and... — read more
Let go yesterday
How many people got let go yesterday
Textbook case in how NOT to run a company
How do you get to be an executive and not understand the golden rule of always tell the truth. People respect you when you are truthful and explain why painful things have to be done. Guess who has z e r o respect? The coward who cannot even... — read more
Besides eDocs, anything else?
NetDocuments acquired eDocs from Opentext. Does anyone know of any other noncore solution being sold off? https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/opentext-sells-non-core-business-120629553.html
Layoff after a divestiture
What happens when an employee is laid off after a divestiture? Like when a severance is paid how many years of service is taken into account: is it the number of years at OT or at the new company? or do employees get a severance during divestiture?... — read more
Could CEO pivot
With the plan of divesture and consolidation and rationalisation etc, will the new CEO just continue along this path ? Could the CEO change course again ?
The reorg that solved nothing
Can somebody name one thing that improved since the last reorg that cost so many people their jobs?
job descriptions apply equally to humans and enterprise AI agents—a truly blended workforce
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Just joined opentext
And I regret it, i can see it's a dumpster fire already. Will it improve ?
Layoffs before Xmas ?
When are next layoffs ?
Should OpenText change it’s name?
Something to sound like an AI start up? OpenText as a brand sounds old and not sure how many companies associate us with successful AI.
More reorgs
Will there be more execs to leave in engineering and ops?
Layoffs next seek
Are there layoffs next week ? If so what geo and groups
Interesting Developments today
Rumor has it there is a significant Marketing "reorganization"
It's the Demoralizing Time of the Year ... Again!
That's right, when you worked hard all year and you find out the execs made great bonuses and you got less that the cost of living increase. And that's IF you got anything at all. So nice to work for a company where every year you stay with them... — read more
Layoffs happening
Several of my colleagues have been laid off in finance and customer management
Getting of VMware
With the move to the cloud for all customers, will they get rid of all the VMware people ?
Marketing leadership change
Joe IBM and his gang have pushed the outsiders fully out the way of the leaders team so he can continue his takeover of marketing. Sandy Oh-No is either helping plot his succession to CMO or is too busy with her AI characters to even notice the... — read more
We need better managers
My manager shows flashes of competence but mostly lives in reaction mode. When things go south he's more likely to add pressure than solutions. I wish leadership training came with the job. Imagine where we would be if we had management that was... — read more
When will layoffs continue?
Nothing before next year, right?
25% of the business is non-core
"That 25% of non-core business, including SMB and consumer cybersecurity, DevOps, and analytics, is going to be a hole worth almost $1.3 billion to fill however, so the shrink to grow strategy better work, and the new CEO may need some patience given... — read more
In The Future We’ll All Be Bosses And Have 100 Artificial Assistants
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/11/24/in-the-future-well-all-be-bosses-and-have-100-artificial-assistants/ In the very near future, we’ll all be bosses, and we’ll have our own customized teams of AI agents automating processes that we... — read more
Over 40 and laid off?
OWBPA requirements (EEOC): https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/age-discrimination-older-workers-benefit-protection-act OWBPA explanation (U.S. Department of... — read more
How was everyone’s raise this year?
Got a whopping 0%. Canada. Thx ot
"Forever layoffs" and other ways to dodge the WARN act
Corporate America back to its old tricks. The obfuscating language is always telling. Just like calling a janitor a sanitation engineer is a fiction meant to obscure the job, "forever layoffs, micro firings" and such are meant to hide the real... — read more
Fire the id--ts that should be interfacing systems together
How fuc_ing stupid is a company that knowingly wastes 20% of its employees time do to having to log in to disparate systems many many times a day. Fire these incompetant people and get real engineers that know how to make this all seamless!
Broomfield CO office has been sold
Old Webroot office in Broomfield has been sold. Not sure what will happen to staff in the office, maybe RIF or be made virtual
IT hotline wait times???
took 45 minutes to get through the other day, what gives?
I'm exhausted
Job hunting after work feels like having two full time jobs. I shut one laptop just to open another and hope the next application is the one that finally clicks. And none of them do. Are others having more luck than I?
Are the new scripts crashing the site for anyone else?
To read anything, I have to hit the stop button before the page finishes its task. It's turned to absolute garbage.
Layoffs today
It seems some folks got laid off today. Anyone can share any info?
No wonder the stock price change
When you listen to leaders that sound disjointed and are so rattled they can't even hold a train of thought. Jeez.
Share price
Share price down after results? What’s going on? More layoff ahead ?
Performance Reviews
Has anyone had performance reviews this year? Any raises?
Earnings Call - 1 Divestiture Per Quarter through next year
So CIBC analyst asked around the pace: "How should we kind of think about the cadence of divestitures over the next several quarters here as you look to divest 15%-20% of the overall revenue? Yeah, that's a great question. We've been grappling with... — read more
Women leaders
Earlier this week, my post was removed from here. Hours later, HR quietly pinned a “Team Player” award on my profile, one I never applied for and don’t want. What I actually asked for was a clear growth path. Instead, my manager (who still calls... — read more