#allhands

Get your popcorn ready!

What are your thoughts on today's webcast?

Is the dilemma and misery coming to an end?

Thoughts? Any ideas?

Wonder what the agenda items will be?

If anyone knows later today, please share.

the ai is failing and the sales team is getting the blame. Can’t sell a sh-t product bottom line

• how do we feel on the q4 all hands
• the first lady that spoke.. felt vague at strange on employee things to come?
• who is this lisa lady
• how are folks on legacy inmarsat side holding up?

First time in many many years where the ALL HANDS WEB CAST was not posted on Bridge .... From what employees are saying the CEO was crying during the webcast and the company has disclosed any infomration stating that there is no recording for such . Can anyone confirm and or comment on this?

An all hands invitation was sent out this morning for April 1
GP and WP leaders on it and I hope that they have some information to share instead of an hour of word salad slop.

Here is the rundown:

Moving to a 'open contribution' model. Near 100% adoption of AI across the company.
Moving to an 'AI first' mindset. Ty Thorsen (SVP) announcing new 'AI transformation' team to force the use of AI across the board for all engineers.

Still have no growth strategy, just directions and empty promises, AI is taking over increasing burnout, you know what that means...

Moving fast fast fast and faster, more speed more acceleration more efficiency, aiming higher doing better bigger goals yap yap yap typical corporate jargin bla bla bla be excited about company growth (dont ask for more pay)

Karlheinz wurm could not pronounce 'cost', kept saying 'co-k'

Overwhelming negative feedback in the Q&A about RTO.
The anonymous questions are funnily brutal, the top voted one:
"As an office-first organization, shouldn’t all the leaders on this call be present at their main collaboration sites?"

Ty Thorson (SVP) """"answers"""" RTO concerns:
'While individuals might be more productive at home, teams are more productive working together in person" holy cope

"we are not the only ones doing this..." slap to the face

"Were leading this with a carrot, not with a stick. We are hoping the people will appreciate coming into the office for their team" trying to blame YOU for their bad decisions

Then they start blatently deleting all of the tough-to-answer RTO questions. Absolutely comical as more and more people ask "Why are you deleting RTO questions". So much for being a transparent company.

The rest of the questions are sidestepped and doesnt really answer anything, typical corporate vetted PR talk around the use of AI and how its going to change the world.
Constantly reciting the absolutes, like "all", "most of", "best", "must", "fully", "completely" etc.

People are asking some really brutal questions now, example:
"Someone deleted the question??? Please have all leaders show who is currently in the office if we are to believe you are leading by example"

They keep deleting questions rapid-fire.
Atmosphere gets tense.
No actual questions answered.

"I see concerns about topics like RTO, please message xyz if you feel this way"

"Will we compensate people for gas and time lost coming into the office? Thats not part of Cisco's policy its your responsability to take care of that" lol thanks lets create a problem and expect you to pay for it

The questions in Slido get REALLY heated now, moderation is working overtime deleting messages. More and more questions on compensation not increasing with inflation.

Out of all the leadership speakers, only 4 were in the office.
Everyone couldnt even come into the office to give a talk about returning to the office.
Great lead by example.

The rest of the meeting was a big nothingburger.

It cannot be any clearer how dogshit current leadership is.
If you havent quiet quit by now, this is your signal.

This townhall stood out from the usual scripted updates—it felt more real, direct, and intentional. Instead of just showcasing achievements or high-level strategy, this one leaned into transparency, addressing ground realities. The tone was more candid and less corporate, which made the message land better. It didn’t feel like a one-way presentation; it felt like a reset—aligning everyone on priorities, expectations and the need to execute better. Overall, it felt like a signal that leadership is aware, engaged, and possibly gearing up for change.

Looks like another 90 minutes of time waste is upon us... Here is what is going to be said:

1) We are awesome (according to our own selves of course).
2) We are winning against Microsoft and Citrix (again according to our selves).
3) Our customers love us (that's why they are leaving us, you see...).
4) Our technology is so futuristic (hence why we brought the 70s back in our SKO).

BTW %73.67 of you clicked on the phishing email that was sent the other day so you now have to take the wrath of big man DD and explain to him why you did not fight harder against the temptation to click on the URL.

Could someone share what’s on the agenda or what main topics we’ll be covered during Wednesday’s mandatory all‑hands call? I’d like to know what to expect so I can be prepared ahead of time.

Do not waste employees time if you have nothing new to share!
Heard the same ideas again with AI in every sentence in Nancy’s org All Hands.
Did not dare to answer most liked questions on the slido.. trying to paint rosy picture when in reality, nothing is rosy.

The first TPG All Hands question was straight up ballsy. Too bad, Shanky gave a non-answer "EQ-IQ-EQ-IQ".

Is there a US based layoff coming in the next month? Wondering because we have all hands scheduled in the next two weeks so seems like it might be weird to have an all hands during layoffs

Alfonso just done an All hands. What a confusing All hands and a load of cr-p.

I’m listening to the AI session and the BOAs and FAs are absolutely unhinged 😂 It’s honestly hilarious and kind of refreshing how funny everyone is. At one point someone asked, “Can Copilot tell people to mute their phones?” and I lost it.

Here we go again!

I heard this was a sign for layoffs. I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I hope it's me this time

If you could ask any question what would it be?

It’s midweek. All Hands. The higher ups are ranting and raving about how great of a year we had. How well the company performed. How it’s all “due to our hard work and our commitment to ensuring a great client experience”. Then… the Q&A starts

The inevitable, quarterly question about pay comes up. Management scoffs and gives the same tired answers they always do, smiling because that “hard work” benefits them way more than it does us. “If you want better pay, get promoted”, they say. Work harder, get better reviews each year. Go above and beyond, that’ll make things better.

The kicker is: that’s all bullsh-t.

I’ve been here 8 years. Tried my very best for 6 of those. Got exceeds, got promoted, got licensed, dragged my a-s to the office almost every single day during RTO to sit on VIRTUAL teams meetings, and guess what… it’s always 2-4% merit increases. I half assed it last year, still did pretty well, but basically stopped working myself to the bone for self preservation. Guess what? 2-4%.

Bonus? Pretty much the same as last year accounting for the slight increase in base pay.

Promotions don’t seem to be available now. New hires get paid more than I do. The job market su-ks, I keep looking. I keep my job because I need stability to take care of my family.

My boss plays favorites and low performing ‘personalities’ get better raises because they make people laugh and pick up food during work hours.

This isn’t just a Schwab issue, but an endemic struggle for all who shoulder the palanquins of corporate America. Prices keep going up. Wages barely increase and the rich get richer.

I want to find that spark again. I want to love what I do and strive to perform at my best, but it’s so damned hard when either way… it’s 2 to fu--ing 4%…

There’s really no point

Someone asked in the all hands, could they expect any changes to operational activities etc and Shannon said no

Looks like we are good

As a shareholder, I was incensed that we are paying this je-k to waste our time.
As an employee, I am just embarrassed to see yet another incompetent buddy of the CEO ramble on with no clue and no actionable plan.
He had 45 minutes to inspire. Instead, he went long and ran out of time while he scrawled 10 unbelievably simple and dated management claptrap slogans on a whiteboard as if they were the 10 commandments.
Please wrestle the red marker from his hands and have Dan give him a big hug as he sends him off with a $4M check, just like the last guy.

The All Team invite is for early March. Usually it's around 4/20. Is this a planned morale band-aid after more layoffs 2/26, are they preparing to announce something, or am I reading too much into everything for JE signs...

Funny how a DEI question was asked about female execs and all the male execs on the stage struggled to answer 😄

Anyone else is disappointed by All- Hands..
I have started feeling like that there is actually no real plan.. it’s all smoke and mirrors..

Dan did not talk about any solid plan and Now Alfanso did not talk any real plan or strategy to execute his grand vision.

What did we just witness?

Even senior leaders appear unable to credibly defend the current direction. All-hands meetings lack conviction, and there is a widespread belief that employees are being financially and professionally constrained with little effort to soften the message.

This company isn't even capable of running an all hands

If we hadn’t wasted so much time talking about AI, he could have actually covered the important points he ran out of time for.

And another thing , why are people in here celebrating someone getting fired? Sampath! That says a lot about your character.

Paying 100% STI was the bare minimum. Anything less would have been flat out disrespectful after laying off 15,000 people.

At this point, just let AI write my year end performance review.

Why is he beating around the bush and wasting time?

Same old? Or will there be some major news? Maybe RTO requirements will be more lax?

Will tomorrow's webcast be some type of announcement, or just the usual All Hands kickoff for the year?

Confirmed layoff next week before the All-Hands. Have now heard it from multiple sources in my organization. Don’t know the scale but know 2 members on my team that are impacted.

Very disappointing, I hope I get selected honestly. I’ve been meaning to leave for a while and it would force change in my career.

Ya'll lapped up the pink Kool-Aid like it was champagne. Ya'll believed Legere when he said TMO would "be job-positive from Day 1" after they gobbled up Sprint. Truth is they started laying off on Day 1.

Mmmm, that pink Kool-Aid seems to be going sour. But, go on to the next all hands meeting and rah rah.

No pigeonhole this All Hands call she wants us to email questions directly to a mailbox so she doesn’t get harsh questions.

i dont know bout you all we looking forward to
Tomorrows clendenim all hands meeting

love that these id--ts send out all hands meetings with no agenda and also ask for fools to give feedback on communication

hard to believe any of these ppl graduated college

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