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Buffalos are bold and strategic and would charge bravely with focus and determination into the approaching Elliott Management storm even though they probably won't survive it ! Be proactive like the Buffalo and face the challenge head on !

I hate stock buybacks. I think they are a sign that management has no idea what to do with their hard earned cash flow. In Chevron's case, cash flow created by prior leadership. I get the argument that if you can get a higher return from stock appreciation than the investment options, they make sense. However, when you have been buying back millions - may billions of dollars worth of stock and the stock price is middling, at best, what gives? Legacy projects create legacy cash flow - some, not all. Stock buybacks, by my read, have destroyed value because they have kept us from investing in, and worse, pursuing, legacy opportunities. What say you?

Is it worth learning a new skill that will get outdated in just for a year or two- certainly not worth the time,money, and health.
Shareholders are prospering while staff are ending in hospitals.

You only get one life. And when the realization hits—that you spent most of it working for a company with no real purpose, serving a cause that added no value—the regret can be overwhelming.

Most people will not wake up until it’s too late. You may not realize the cost of wasting your time, talent, and spirit in a manufactured corporate illusion until you are staring at the ceiling in your final days.

And in that silence, you might remember the beautiful world around you that you completely missed living in shadows of fake company culture:

the adventures you never took, the passions you silenced, the time you traded for titles, meetings, and made-up metrics that meant nothing.

EM sells you a culture—but it’s not real. It’s a carefully constructed façade of progress wrapped in ad-hoc slogans and shallow incentives.

Beneath it is a hollow system, where human potential is sacrificed daily for shareholder returns and surface-level prestige.

You may think you're winning—climbing the ladder, getting promotions, fitting into the mold. But the mold is the trap. And by the time you realize it, the real you will be long gone.

Choose carefully. Because no title, no paycheck, and no pension will ever give you back a life unlived.

All that matters in corporate America is shareholder value.

Employees are out!

Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ:PSKY) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share for both its Class A and Class B shares. The dividend will be paid on October 1, 2025, to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2025.

Just a friendly notification. UHG has spent over $11B in the last year on Stock buy backs. The prior period was $9.1B. Instead of giving us living wage raises, or a reasonable bonus. These a--hats see fit to spend company resources to prop up the stock price through repurchasing. This behavior only helps the investor class, and it ain't you with your 23 shares of UHN. It helps Hemsley, Rex, Witty, etc. This is done at your expense. At the expense of your benefits, wages and sanity.

AT the end of the month another buyback will be disclosed. I'm guessing one of the largest ever (buy the dip with your billions). Think of this when they fire your coworkers, your friends, and they stick you with a 1.5% raise and send an email expressing "gratitude" for your hard work and take away bonuses. They don't give two craps about you, they only exist to siphon your labor, sacrifice your sanity and profit off your sweat while they sit in their fancy estates diving all scrooge mcduck into their $60M compensation package.

Exxon Mobil Corp XOM recently reported in its 10-K filing that its global workforce decreased by 1,000 to 62,000 personnel in 2022. This was due to cost-cutting measures intended to increase shareholder returns. It was Exxon's third consecutive year of staff reduction, down from 75,000.

The company also forewarned of potential risks for its operations in Kazakhstan, a nation in central Asia that borders Russia by a distance of 7,644 kilometers (4,750 miles). ExxonMobil’s combined oil and gas output in Kazakhstan was 246,000 barrels last year, which were exported via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). According to the filing, Exxon may face an undeterminable loss in cash flow from its businesses in Kazakhstan if Russia interferes with the pipeline's functioning.

The U.S. oil giant, ExxonMobil, holds a 25% stake in the Tengizchevroil (TCO) oil production joint venture that manages the Tengiz and Korolev oil fields in Kazakhstan. The company also holds a 16.8% working interest in the Kashagan field. Per the filing, ExxonMobil's assets in Kazakhstan generated after-tax earnings of $2.5 billion in 2022.

I demand that all US taxpayers get steep discounts on all Intel products!

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/us-taxpayers-stake-intel-what-it-means-now-future-rcna226956

Same playbook happening this coming earnings report. New revitalisation exercises (cost cuttting actually) to reward shareholders, drive innovations (long dead decades ago). 10% cost cutting expected, mainly in the Print space. PC is undergoing massive challenges as well from lack of excitement in the "AI PC" space. Print is embarking into AI Print space as well (actually all BS, trying to stoke and ride the AI wave).

None, because they don't have a compromised CEO who gave up 10% of the company to keep his job.

Not that there is any direct correlation, but the last time Canon Global pulled this cr-p was the end of Q2, 2024. 8 days before the mass layoffs in Canon USA.

"On August 22, Canon announced the completion of a significant share repurchase: approximately 9.8 million shares were bought back for 42.95 billion yen through the Tokyo Stock Exchange's off-auction system (ToSTNeT-3) 1. While share buybacks are generally seen as a positive move to return value to shareholders, they can also raise concerns if investors interpret them as a signal that the company lacks better growth opportunities or if the buyback is perceived as poorly timed.

Additionally, sentiment analysis from MarketBeat shows that news coverage around Canon has been slightly negative over the past week, with a sentiment score of -0.35, below the average for manufacturing companies 2. This could be contributing to the downward pressure on the stock."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4814798-chevron-q2-berkshire-hathaway-added-more-so-did-i

"It's not clear what an activist might be looking to do with PepsiCo (PEP), though they may want the company to split up or maybe the board may need an overhaul, Bilson speculated."

This is what lots of bad management gets you...I think it's pretty obvious to everyone what needs to be done with PEP...

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4486225-pepsico-under-spotlight-as-activist-target-after-13f-filings

Massive layoffs in November to pay for their $1 Billion share repurchase program? Or will it be your raise is so small it won't even get you a hamburger at the local restaurant. Would you like fries with that?

News article titled, 'Thomson Reuters Announces $1.0 Billion Share Repurchase Program.'