Horrendous CEO - Avis employé Manager OpenText

Horrible CEO for so many reasons. Here are some highlights: -"I never saw OpenText as a place people go to retire." [When asked why the 401K match was only 1% and doesn't even fully vest until 4 years] Because sure, nobody thinks about saving for retirement throughout their entire career. -"I could spend 25 grand tomorrow and pay a click farm to get those numbers up." [When asked what he thought about the poor reviews on glassdoor] Why embrace criticism and try to be better when you can simply cheat the system? -"Some people rely on those dividend payments as their source of income." [When asked why employees were being forced into 5-10% pay cuts at the start of COVID, while the dividend was not touched.] The CEO works for the shareholders, not the employees. That is not up for debate. But to put the entire burden on employees last year was disgusting. Full disclosure, employees were eventually "made whole" from the wage cut, but not for over a year. When you consider that they froze merit increases and we experienced heavy inflation while the stock market boomed, the money that came back to us was nowhere near enough to truly make us whole. -Mark loves to spend company money on high profile people to chat with him on company calls. Al Gore and Neil deGrasse Tyson are two recent examples. He is so desperate to be one of the cool kids and rub elbows with the rich and famous. Much respect to Neil dGT for recently calling Mark out on having an enormous ego when asked for his thoughts on freezing and thawing people 300 years into the future. "The future doesn't need you. In 300 years you'd be the dumbest person on the planet. You'd have to start over at kindergarten to learn about the world at that time." Not all heroes wear capes. -Benefits are relatively weak. Compensation is not competitive for the tech space and annual merit is nowhere near enough to keep up with inflation. -For most people, there is zero discussion about a career path.