In the corporate center lots of rumblings about another round of layoffs. Anyone got any solid info?
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Everyone IS laying off but Bose has been laying off consistently since 2013, it's never ending.
Some of the frequent visitors to these pages seem to have vendettas against South Asians (even though the founder's father was Bengali), and also against women. So you're likely to get some criticism that you can ignore.
Can anybody provide some reference about Priya Komanduri?
She just joined Ford as a senior director in my organization, and it seems she was out from Bose at the same time of this layoffs.
"I’ve been at Bose through the best and worst of times. But I must set the record straight on a few things:
if you think the company is in a terrible place today, you are wildly off.
if you think the pre-Lila days were great and things have gone down hill since, you have zero clue.
if you think ‘DEI’ hires (whatever that means) have damaged the company, I feel sorry at how insecure you are
if you think the products were amazing 5-10 years ago and have gone downhill since, I’m seriously questioning that you have actually used and compared the current products to those older ones.
if you left the company years ago but still come back to this page regularly looking for misery stories, I think you need to move on."
Your remarks prove simply that you don't know and were not a part of the company's history and PAST successes. You are right about one thing, though. The products 5 to 10 years ago were not great. The ship has been sinking slowly and steadily all that time, and the current CEO is only riding the ship lower into the water. She took over a disaster, but has done nothing to right the ship. Nor did her predecessor. The company has been without a visionary leader for AT LEAST a decade. Longer, actually. They ceased being industry innovators and leaders eons ago and have been "led" by incapable and incompetent, if well-intentioned, corporate cultists propping themselves up on the glory of past successes of a previous generations of leadership that most of them had nothing to do with. They stood on the shoulders of past giants without achieving any comparable successes of their own. The list of failures, embarrassments, and debacles that cost the company mountains of money, market share, respect, prestige, opportunities for future businesses, and irreplaceable brand equity with the consumer is miles longer than the periodic successes that they've enjoyed.
Were Bose a healthy company it wouldn't be in the position that it is. Were it a healthy organization it wouldn't have the ten to twenty year history that it does. And, were its current crop of "leaders" in any way competent at anything other than throwing the deck chairs overboard to keep the ship afloat a little longer, they wouldn't HAVE to be throwing the deck chairs overboard. Bose was built by great men. Men of vision and determined ambition to pursue the realization of that vision. Sadly, it long ago fell into the hands of lesser stewards before passing into the hands of the current crop of visionless incompetents. Bose used to make great products. They used to make progress. Now, all they make is excuses, which are the prime currency of those who can't match the successes of those who came before them and built the actual company they are sinking like a stone, now. But it is fun watching them dig their own graves without even acknowledging that they're standing in a hole with a shovel in their hands.
I’ve been at Bose through the best and worst of times. But I must set the record straight on a few things:
- if you think the company is in a terrible place today, you are wildly off.
- if you think the pre-Lila days were great and things have gone down hill since, you have zero clue.
- if you think ‘DEI’ hires (whatever that means) have damaged the company, I feel sorry at how insecure you are
- if you think the products were amazing 5-10 years ago and have gone downhill since, I’m seriously questioning that you have actually used and compared the current products to those older ones.
- if you left the company years ago but still come back to this page regularly looking for misery stories, I think you need to move on.
I heard a small layoff, mostly due to the 5-day work week model coming soon. This will cause some folks to leave on their own. Remote work is dead around country (look at Amazon), layoffs loom again and DEI hires will be safe.
"I'm betting they keep the useless DEI hires."
They need all that dead weight to sink the ship to the bottom.
Many years ago (2001) I worked as a contractor at Park Place supporting the manufacturing floor. The toxicity from management was the worst I ever encountered. I was like you needed an exorcism before you returned to your home life on a daily basis. It was that bad. After a short time I quit because I knew I deserved better. I see nothing has changed.
I heard it’s gonna be the rest of supply chain. We’ll see it go to Atlanta over the next year. 2024 was IT and 2025 will be supply chain.
I'm betting they keep the useless DEI hires.
there was something on a tiktok thread a couple days ago...
I am not a member, nor plan to be, so cannot read it...
Unfortunately,at this time, layoffs don't seem to be just a Bose thing this time