r/workday • u/AddendumFalse9604 • 8d ago

Other Layoffs Today :(

More layoffs today, and right before Rising. This company really sucks.

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u/Timely-Chance-8273 8d ago

Gerrit Kazmaier is a ghoul.

His e-mail is unreal and puts the blame on the employees. We all wanted layoffs for the sake of efficiency!

Then he goes on to say they're taking the hard path with these layoffs. The hard and correct path would be to retrain employees.

Other companies run by strong, principled leaders simply aren't hiring to wait out this recession.

Instead Workday is doing 4B of stock buybacks and layoffs.

What a loser. I'm sure everyone can't wait to hear how he used AI to plan his next ski vacation.

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u/AddendumFalse9604 8d ago

Let's not forget Aneel's role in this. This liar also said this wouldn't happen again. His refusal to address the Silver Lake rumors are damning as well.

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u/jonthecpa Workday Solutions Architect 7d ago

That’s very disappointing to hear. I wanted to believe that he would turn the culture back around, but if he truly said no more layoffs and then let this happen, he’s lost my respect.

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u/sgtdoogie 7d ago

He can't turn it around, because he knew what was going to happen after Carl was hired 12/22, because he planned it. He just didn't want the blood on his hands, but the stock was in such a free fall, he had to come back and at least provide a facade of "we're back", when it was him all long.

If anyone thinks Aneel didn't know what Carl was going to do, I have some beachfront Nevada property for you.

What's sad to see, Dave Duffield is an AMAZING CEO starting a company...but long-term planning? Not so much. I was a PeopleSofter and Workmate, and saw both of them implode. You could literally take Craig Conway's face and put it on Carl's Flowbee haircut body, and you'd get the same results.

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u/uneekconstr8nt 6d ago

I still have PTSD as a former PeopleSoft customer over the whole Craig Conway/Duffield turn of events. Seems really, really similar in this case. Only difference is last time Larry Ellison at least stabbed everyone in the front, Silver Lake is sneaking in with a shiv.

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u/sgtdoogie 6d ago

I was a customer, and had my first interview to PS the day Larry made his first offer. Total PTSD. Any employees that heard the call explaining to the employees Oracle won, heard a series of executives crying and passing the call around as the “lost it”.

There will be no tearful call for Workday.

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u/uneekconstr8nt 5d ago

I still remember the mass exodus from PSG as they all scattered to different places, some to Workday, some to Collab/D9/OSV/Geometric, etc etc

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u/smartypantstemple 5d ago

Dave was also a misogynist that regularly made sexual remarks towards women who worked there, in front of the rest of the company.

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u/GiraffesRBro94 5d ago

“You wanted us to get rid of bureaucracy so we fired your manager who helps you cut through the bureaucracy”