Comments on: Poll: Rating Mike Z.’s Leadership Skills

By: exnortel2

exnortel2 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:53:58 +0000

i'd be up for that

By: exnortel2

exnortel2 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:53:58 +0000

i'd be up for that

By: slumdog

slumdog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:04:53 +0000

Like the severance decision, the pay-cut proposal should have come from the leadership as it did at Western Digital and many others. It is evident from the month's events that the only thing Zero man and his cronies wanted is for their paychecks to keep coming; that too dug out of hapless employee severance and shareholder monies (which of course is history now).

These crooks talk about ethics but in reality they have always owed fiduciary duties only to themselves. From what I have heard, Zero even took the corporate jet for his son's basketball game the day before the bankruptcy filing!! ..In the face of this, the ethics certification he mandated the employees pales into insignificance!

Also, as I recall, at every town hall, they always affirmed the following statements
1 There is no plan to make any changes to salary structure at this time
2 There is no plan to change severance packages at this time.

See where we are now !!

I, a JCI3 would have been willing to take a pay cut if the leadership had even proposed it. I want to mention though that employees did toy with this idea on internal blogs but Z never cared enough to even read them.

To add insult to injury we are being spammed by his Zmails every week now, trying to explain the decision to stop severance etc and how he understands what our families are going through. Save it Mr. Z !!

By: forgive

forgive — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:19:35 +0000

Regarding pay cut, I am very surprised to see so many ex-employees or current employees object it.

AMD is one of the only 2 players in CPU market, it recently announced big pay cut from top management team way down to normal employees. Remember there are only 2 players in big CPU market. With such move, I believe AMD will come out of economic downturn very soon. Many local high tech companies also use pay cut, compensation cut to survive.

Why not Nortel do this earlier? Look at Telecom equipment market, please count how many competitors there are? Could any JCI/4/56 guy standing out now to justify whether your pay check matches with what you contributed? Zero Man actualy had chance to lead a dramatic change 3 to 4 years ago. But he has no clue what the real Nortel problem is, and how to use the momentum of new leadership to break outdated HR and reward structure, and failed to let innovation rule.

By: ExNtrl

ExNtrl — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:08:18 +0000

I hear about how people here can do a better job of running the company then the GE boys (probably true). Here is a suggestion: how about putting together an employee buyout of the business total or business unit and then turn the situation/business around?

By: NTdown

NTdown — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:34:33 +0000

I just want to say,Six Sigma means only 3-4 mistakes are allowed in 1 MILLION opportunities, how many mistakes did Mike Z make? Thousands of… If we don't own the factory, 6 sigma is nothing but really garbage.

Just ask our customers, how do they think the current product qaulity and COE technical capabilty, they will tell u , DISASTER

By: broadbandbill

broadbandbill — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:23:36 +0000

80% of the voters agree with you; TERRIBLE!!!!..-bb

By: Another_Nortel_Watcher

Another_Nortel_Watcher — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:07:52 +0000

Funny. And just like Blago, Mike Z is probably encouraging Hackney with words like “Don't despair, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and Mandella had to face these challenges too.”

By: exnt2

exnt2 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:46:53 +0000

er this is NT so the less you know and the less you do the higher you go. if you are found out then you are moved to a less-er job still knowing less and doing less. the only thing is salary which is in direct reverse proportion to how much you know and do.

no NT CEO has had the guts or brains to get this culture out of NT. prior to leaving 3 JCI6's were moved into our team reporting to a JCI6 and having JCI5 peers who also got moved in earlier, JCI4 and JCI3 peers. I know of others who had JCI5s moved into teams managed by a JCI4 with JCI3 peers.

By: MyHeadHurts

MyHeadHurts — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:35 +0000

In other real high-tech companies, if you change jobs to a lower pay grade, or are forced down (due to a number of issues) your pay gets cut to the classification of the job.

It's called “at risk” pay. Meaning, the higher you move up the chain, more is expected of you, you need to take more smart risk and you should be rewarded accordingly. You fail or get moved down, it's your loss. It's the motivation to keep your job and perform better. It rewards the guys who have ambition and talent, and punishes those hanger-on-ers to go elsewhere or improve.