During discussion with retired SECU CEO & CIO, Sougata Mukherjee confirms misstatements were not his - nor TBJ's.
Well, the brouhaha continues over that Triangle Business Journal article (3/6/2023) which quoted current SECU leadership as stating that SECU hadn't updated its technology since 1983! Former CEO Mike Lord and former CIO Chris Ayer took great offense - as one might suspect. Both called for a meeting today (3/10/2023) with TBJ Editor-in-Chief Sougata Mukherjee to demand a retraction.
Evidently it was a fairly contentious meeting lasting 2 hours! Lord and Ayer presented a lengthy and extensive list of major technology changes which have occurred at SECU over recent years. Mr. Mukherjee listened closely and agreed it would be pretty hard to end up with internet service, mobile apps, ATMS, call centers, voice recognition, remote deposit capture, etc. - technologies which didn't even exist in 1983! - without having made "at least a few" technology changes. Everybody agreed it was difficult to argue with those facts! Just some more Fonz "jumping the shark"- type statements from SECU.
But, Mr. Mukherjee adamantly refused to retract the article stating the quotes were provided to TBJ's reporter directly by SECU. The misstatements were not made by Triangle Business Journal - period.
Well, let's see then...who does that leave?
Hayes believes himself to always be the smartest guy in the room - pretty common for narcissists. Unfortunately for him, he rarely is and his smokescreen is easy to see through. This is just another example of the arrogance and ignorance of Hayes and the current executive leadership team. They would be a lot better off to just keep their mouths shut and save themselves the embarrassment.
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I can only think of a few reasons why the current administration would misstate that SECU hasn't updated its technology since 1983. None of the reasons are good.
ReplyDeleteI expected SOME changes with a new CEO, but he has literally changed EVERYTHING, splitting departments up...making up unnecessary VP positions for people that know NOTHING about SECU or North Carolina. It makes no sense, we are an organization that only serves North Carolians but we hire these random people from all over the country, oh and of course SECU is paying to fly them all over. I'm sorry but the amount of money that is being wasted and we are STILL waiting to hear something about compensation, oh he did let us know it's not going to be an "across the board" increase. This has just been a disaster and this ship is sinking....FAST!!!
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