Hackney Hired by Avaya

Seems official now. Went to Avaya's website, under "Corporate Overview" they have a pdf dated 18 December with the fruitcake Stranglers name and title right there in b & w.
Let me see if I can copy the link here before I go overdose on Alka-Seltzer as my stomach is turning. Page two, dare I say it:Senior "Leadership".

http://www.avaya.com/rt/master-usa/en-us/corpor...

I have to add that I just went to Jobvent.com and read the reviews about Avaya. Take a peek. The employees over there could have written the posts below. It's Nortel all over again. It will give you a new understanding of how a guy like Hackkneed can continue to thrive. Pity the poor slobs at Avaya.

Wow, scary stuff there..

I remember when the Hatchet man first came aboard. I was managing a team of support engineers and my manager had been in a meeting with the SOB. I asked him what he thought of his new boss. He told me "Joel really knows how to CONTROL a meeting." It was clear from the first day that he was boss and he would prove it by crushing anyone who attempted to offer a different point of view. My own experiences afterward confirmed the boorish, arrogant, contemptible nature of the bastard. As I read the prior posts it's clear that he was disliked by virtually everyone. I wonder why, with the kind of money they pay these guys, they don't hire someone with some character. Are we all wrong? Management isn't a popularity contest but my God is this the best Nortel and now Avaya can come up with?

Avaya should give Hackney a LOA on day one - give him his bonus and whatever else he has coming to him and then let the employees run the show - he can stay home and dream of beating up young ladies. At least you would not have to worry about the decisions being made based on selfishness...plus there may be a chance to succeed at that point.

Anyone know where The Strangler will be stationed? It would be so decent of all of the ex-employees and (deliberately) sold-out shareholders to do a meet and greet with cookies and hot cocoa to welcome him in the parking lot of his brand new shiny head-quarters...maybe we can invite the young woman who had her face grabbed to join us.. you know, for old-times sake.

Big mistake. But perhaps this is a clue that Avaya is just as clueless?

Or maybe it went a little like this?

Hackman: "Hey, Kevin, who do I gotta strangle around here to get a job?"

Its no wonder a lot of corporate giants in America are going to h&ll with people like this floating around at the top. Chinese companies do not tolerate people with no redeeming qualities. Joel messed up operations, bullied his employees, did nothing with enterprise, could not relate to customers, had a road rage incident, and was not respected by the majority of employees - why does Avaya want him?

They should also put his laptop on a chain leash... to make sure he doesn't leave it behind in some overseas airport. And, please hire him someone who can iron his rumpled khaki's.. oh, isn't that the style you're used to, Avaya???

I USED to have some small kernel of hope and respect for Avaya.. that has now been extinguished...

Hope they have beefed up their "Parking Lot Surveillance" Contracts...

Disgusting, abhorrent, stomach-turning, Despicable...

Nice going, Kevin Kennedy, et al... remember, who you hire, is a representation of YOU and YOUR COMPANY.

Peace Out.

Hey Avaya..Have your employees get ready for ethnics training twice a year. Since Joel has no ethics he feels everyone beneath him needs ethics. I hope you have a bunch of yes men working for your company Joel doesn't like anyone that questions his authority. I think Zafirovski needs a job too if you need another good exec to rob your employees of their jobs/benefits. See you at the game Joel! Honk..Honk..
Be careful whose face you grab out there Big Man.
Corporate America ain't it great!

Quite a surprise this. Strange that Avaya haven't heard of this guys "style" and "achievements". I think others have pointed out his arrogance, and his intolerance of anyone and anything that didn't say "yes" without question. I saw this when dealing with those who dealt with him directly, setting up a distribution center.
But we got more freight hops, multiple shipments, a new warehouse cost (outsourced of course). Where we used to have one whole shipment straight to the customer. Lead time didn't change - in fact it got worse. Logically, when it was first described, that's most with any experience knew would happen - logically it simply had to. It was both funny and dammed frustrating, knowing Nortel was losing money and that sort of thing could go on.

OH... don't ever forget, he was THE chief initial implementer of six sigma into Nortel. Most of that we saw, was generally recognized by most folks as ordinary to simply wrong in claimed achievements. Many have stories on how ineffective six sigma usually was all over the world. But when anyone questioned or complained (no matter how obvious the cause), - and some did try - execs got cranky and started kicking. They could only have been passing on the attitude from up top.

This is the same guy that smacked the women in the parking lot over a year ago. Great character traits, maybe everyone should smack someone today…it seems to be the way to move to the CEO level of the company.

Ahhhhhhh

After receiving an offer myself from Avaya, what a disappointment it was to hear that Hackney is going to be there. I hope it is true that he is interim. I am ashamed of the contempt I have for him but he has earned it for sure.

I am with you. I have never hated someone as much as I do him.

What a f'in joke! Both the man, and the hire.

" Well we all knew that slimy POS went over on Nortel's dime and negotiated himself a sweetheart deal before he came back and announced the Avaya deal. So I don't know why his announcement yesterday was a surprise. .."

Of course no surprise... First, *I* will lay off 1000 Non-NGS enterprise employees, so *You*, Avaya, does not have to, then *You* will hire me, and after a short period (y'know, until I get everything 'straightened out') let me go with a nice handsome golden parachute. ..then I can complete my community service requirement - maybe teach/sell them Lean Six Sigma

Unrelated topic: Is it now too close to the holidays to announce a stalking horse for CVAS? Do people think they will wait until January?

Looks like a demotion for Hackney, he used to tend 6000 sheep, now he's down to 1500. I think this is a polite way of saying "Mr. Hackney, there's the door, don't let it hit you in the ass as you go through". I'm going to light a candle today hoping Avaya figures out who the other management losers are as quickly as possible.

Hackney can't lead his family, his own children or household, much less engineering and technology professionals.

If Avaya does not have a "CoE" at the moment, they will very soon since Hack Attack is the mastermind of Nortel's.

I knew Hack-A-Hoe rigged the bidding to keep his job!

I knew Hack-a-hoe rigged the bidding!

If Avaya were a public company, I'd suggest shorting their stock. Too bad they are private, since now there will only be losers. (Unless you count Avaya's competitors)

If there is one person who embodies everything wrong with the whole Ch.11 situation (other than Mike Z) it would have to be the Hacker.

His outrageous management style is only outdone by his arrogance.

Avaya's competitors, particularly those sales directors and VPs targeting government solutions, must be tickled pink -- gleeful -- to see Hackney in there.

What a joke, a telecom executive poseur. Avaya shouldn't have lowered the bar to bring on a person like Hackney, an adult man guilty of assault against a young woman. What does this say about Avaya?

It wasn't enough the rape and pillage Hackney perpetuated against Nortel and its employees and creditors, he had to go so far as to show his kids how much of a tough guy he was against a young woman by hitting her in the face and grabbing her neck - LOSER! POSEUR!

Every woman at Avaya should be royally pissed off. They should start a petition to curtail his activities, citing prior evidence of convicted wrong-doing. There should be flyers posted in the halls and restrooms, male and female, warning of this already known perpetrator.

DISGUSTING!!!

Women of Avaya, speak up and do something!!!!

At NGS we're being told Hackney is only an interim, and a permanent replacement for Chuck Saffell is being sought.

Please be true!

I hear the permanent replacement's name is "Zafirovski"

Good to know ... Hackney knows nothing about the government, has no contacts inside, has never led sales, much less to governments, and in a position of leadership will be a disgrace to Avaya. I'm surprised Avaya's even putting him in as a placeholder ... Hackney is done for professionally.

What is Avaya thinking? Nortel enterprise (formerly Bay Networks) was a forerunner in the data markets until this scumbag came along. Not only does he have no clue on how to lead, he wont have anything to do with anyone who doesnt agree with him...just as many of the top managers that were let go (or walked away) because of this butthead.

I would imagine that some of the people that are going to Avaya are now shuddering. Things were starting to look up, but now we can see that the lifeline has been cut and the Hack-head has a chance to ruin another company.

Maybe next time this dummy attacks a little girl, she will get some pepper spray in his face - Guarantee that all enterprise employees will get a good chuckle from that....99% of them want to do this to him themselves.

Sorry - hard to have respect for someone that is so self-centered, egotistical, and a downright bully - What a mistake Avaya has made!

I wanted to throw a punch when within a few feet of him at sales conference in 2008. He's such a fake ... he won't last, don't worry.

I'm not sure what they are thinking. His management style is so outdated; the bully boy surrounds himself with yes-men, everyone's afraid of upsetting him, his decisions are final and he listens to no one. Unless they are brilliant, arrogant managers like that generally destroy businesses....oh....wait.....

Does Hackney even have management skills ?

As you said, he surrounded himself with many yes-men who are just as bullied as Hack..all the way down to the command chain mostly in Global Ops...As soon as Nortel splitted up into units ready for sale, many of these guys lined up and moved in to Enterprise to follow their wonderful leader..The scary part is, guess what, at least 90% if not more of these yes-men are transferring to Avaya too. The 10% is perhaps the Chuck Safell and the old guards that have been weeded out....

I hope this is an interim move until the Avaya people figure out the fox in sheep clothing. Better soon before HMS_Avaya starts to sink also.

Maybe scumbag Hackney can re pay the favor and hire his GE/Nortel buddy
Mike Z

What a bunch of asswipes Nortel had in management

Hole Acne.

Sounds like Z-man negotiated some sweet deals for his green pals he brought in to risk careers.

Why else would anyone in their right mind take the misogynist Hack who bullied on a 21 year old little girl in front of his family out of mere road rage to a honking horn, claiming hew can do whatever he wants, and in dire straights of anger management let alone with his tanking track record with BS hype and lack of telecom experience. He even refused to acknowledge the episode with dispassion. Who trusts all ears and smiles with his temper and abilities?

I would think beating up on little girls is more unethical than Tiger Woods cheating, at least he never assaulted them and remains proven in his field than proven to tank whatever he touches with a totalitarian twist.

We should have known from Avaya's BS propaganda in there is no better time to buy Nortel ot how 90% of top 500's buy Nortel, when we witness them tank 30% per quarter.


Everything is tanking now after Hack leading the way.
Even LG is in meltdown mode for the large anticipated cash locked up offshore

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id...

"Nortel's 50-percent-plus-one-share stake in Korean joint venture LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. has been on the table since May. But no offers have been forthcoming and the business is in meltdown, with revenues down 51 percent year-on-year to $103 million in the third quarter."

Taking Hack is hysterical, as the punch lines continue with Avaya now. If they pick up the management with BS hype and stigma as they appear to be doing, it may be their downfall.

Tiger woods is tobacco chew.

What happened to Chuck Saffell who used to run Fed Sys? An actual military guy....

I expect that Chuck is out....as are a number of the other folks from NGS. I guess they never took SixSigma traiing.

What does this mean "market post-closing"? After the project has closed? An Ops guy? Probably a position where he's not customer facing and can be kept busy doing metrics, identify cost reduction, and internal-looking busy work.

"Post-closing" refers to the closing of the sale of Enterprise and NGS to Avaya.

Well we all knew that slimy POS went over on Nortel's dime and negotiated himself a sweetheart deal before he came back and announced the Avaya deal. So I don't know why his announcement yesterday was a surprise.

One sure fire way to ensure failure for Avaya is for them to keep the same crappy management team that was running Nortel in to the ground. Too bad they don't realize this.

Wonder how long it is going to be before Hacker finds a way to get Zero hired in. Maybe they can make him CTO or something since he was so in tune with the industry.............NOT.

Oh no, bring MIke Z in as a "market consultent" and "SixSIgma" enabler.

Government Solutions must be a small, unimportant market for Avaya?!

I expect that with their spin off from ALU they lost access to most of that market.

It will be.