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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

1747.0. "Upcoming Field Business Meetings" by HUMANE::MODERATOR () Thu Jan 30 1992 22:06

    
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    Recently, I received a memo stating that the U.S. Team is sponsoring an
    important FY92 Midyear Business Meeting for all Digital employees, in
    early February. According to the memo, company executives from the U.S.
    Team will be visiting over 250 locations across the United States to
    discuss the state of the business, the recovery plan, and the role of
    the employees in growing the U.S. business. It said this set of
    distributed U.S. meetings is expressly designed to bring real-time
    information and to address questions. 

    I have heard that the meeting is mandatory for everyone who reports up
    to the US Team. I know that there are people who have been told by
    their managers to cancel their training and vacation plans to attend. I
    have also heard that a personnel representative will be there to take
    minutes. Does anyone know more than this about the upcoming meetings?

    This note is entered anonymously, because I'm not comfortable calling
    attention to myself right now. Please forgive the paranoia.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1747.1	Speak up. Sometimes it works	HAAG::HAAG	Dreamin' on WY high country	`Thu Jan 30 1992 22:32`	29
	>I have heard that the meeting is mandatory for everyone who reports up >to the US Team. Yes. We have "mandatory" meetings of all kinds on a regular basis. Nothing new. >I know that there are people who have been told by their managers to >cancel their training and vacation plans to attend. Definitely not here in Minneapolis. I am scheduled for training when the US Team is here next week and my manager ask me to contact the training people to see if I can get the messages during my training sessions. No Problem. >I have also heard that a personnel representative will be there to take >minutes. Personnel are always at meetings like this. Do they take minutes? If they do, are they for other than informational purposes? Who knows? Who cares? I don't blame anyone for being a little paranoid these days. It's hurting us because people are afraid to speak up. If the US Team wants to hear from the front lines, then, be a bit professional, factual, and a bit tactful, but get your message to them. Just my opinion. Gene.
1747.2	judgement call?	POBOX::RILEY	I am the D.J.	`Fri Jan 31 1992 05:54`	13
	RE: >>to the US Team. I know that there are people who have been told by >>their managers to cancel their training and vacation plans to attend. I The US_TEAM memo says, in part... "We look forward to your participation in these meetings and we hope you make every effort to join us. However, we would not expect you to cancel out of any critical customer meeting or training that you had previously scheduled." "jackin' the house", Bob
1747.3	nothing to be worried about	DYPSS1::DYSERT	Barry - Custom Software Development	`Fri Jan 31 1992 09:34`	10
	I know of a unit that was supposed to attend the upcoming meeting but after it was calculated how much revenue would be lost the unit manager (and his manager, and his manager) exempted them from attending. From what little I know of the meeting, it doesn't appear to be a meeting to announce any earthquake. My impression is that it's a "state of the company/let's all redouble our efforts/keep a stiff upper lip" message from Don Zereski & co. to the troops. Nothing to worry about. BD�
1747.4	Not a problem	MAIL::ALLER		`Fri Jan 31 1992 09:54`	7
	We were told that training during the meeting wouldn't be an issue. The training facilities would be conducting the meeting for the staff and students for the 3 hours. JWA
1747.5	IN the words of George Wendt	ACOSTA::MIANO	John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr	`Fri Jan 31 1992 11:33`	4
	When I got the memo about the meeting I read it and said to myself "Who are these people?" Then deleted it. John
1747.6	Looking forward to the meeting	SWAM1::WEYER_JI	The Right to Write	`Fri Jan 31 1992 11:57`	14
	Our Account Group Manager emphasized the importance of "100% attendance" at the meeting. Personally, I'm looking forward to hearing any important messages directly from the U.S. Team representatives, instead of having it filtered 3 or 4 times by local management. I did not get the impression that the message being delivered would be negative, rather that it would be to discuss ideas to help us get back on track. Our attendance is limited to 100 people per session so more interaction/feedback can be achieved. There are enough sessions scheduled to cover CWO, OJO, IVO and TUS, with specific groups named for each and headcount numbers which include everyone at these sites. I'm not sure when LAO and LAO and the greater Los Angeles area is scheduling their meetings. I'll be attending on Feb. 5, 8:30am.
1747.7	(LEFT OUT IN THE DARK AGAIN)	PDMONT::DESROSIERS		`Fri Jan 31 1992 14:01`	2
	the admin group was left out on the memo in huntsville al. just the field service and sales rep. and sec was listed.
1747.8	A hose by any other name...	QBUS::M_PARISE	Network Partner Excited...	`Fri Jan 31 1992 17:20`	8
	Another hose-job as far as I'm concerned. And a rather expensive one at that! (Flying teams around to 250 locations?????) What they should be doing is reading these notes files (if they were sincerely interested in candid and honest input). /mike
1747.9	" egt wellness"	EJOVAX::JFARLEY		`Sun Feb 02 1992 11:04`	9
	Ken really wants to know what's going on in his company and the only way to find out is to solicit input from "the grunts" not saying he will do anything about it though. The latest acronym "get wellness" for DEC. We were told to attend and be vocal with a certain amount of tactfulness, it is a shame some of "blood bath" recipients of previous "right sizings" will be excluded. I am sure they would have some input to gladly pass on to certain individuals. Reminds me of age cowboy mentality " well Clem we better shut the corall gate now all them
1747.10	Who's going to be there to listen?	ACOSTA::MIANO	John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr	`Sun Feb 02 1992 21:18`	8
	RE: <<< Note 1747.9 by EJOVAX::JFARLEY >>> If that's the case unless the big boys themselves come out to here what's going on the this will be a complete waste of time. It hate to be too negative but the last time I participated in a "Let's-find-out-what's- really-happening" project for a big VP the results were so watered down it was meaningless. If the information filters are running the meetings then they are useless.