Can Meg count on your support?

Dear Colleagues:

HPE needs your help.

2016 was a year of unprecedented change – for the nation, for HPE, and for your political action committee. We find ourselves in the midst of a perfect storm: a looming and significant decrease in the pool of eligible PAC donors (due to the separations of our businesses) combined with a massive increase in the number of public policy issues which threaten our company. In other words, there will be dramatically fewer HPE employees who can contribute to our PAC at a time when the PAC is more important to us than ever.

Let me be more specific. There are a number of troubling ideas coming out of our nation’s capital these days. But one in particular, the “border adjustable tax,” is extremely worrisome. A well-regarded industry analyst recently wrote that, if this tax is enacted, it could profoundly degrade the financial performance of our company. Such a development could threaten HPE’s ability to sustain existing jobs in the US and around the world. We need your help to educate Washington policy makers about reforms that make sense and create an environment for companies like HPE to thrive and produce jobs.

How can you help? In two ways:

First, we need you to make a contribution to HPE PAC at whatever level makes sense for you. I’m giving the maximum amount allowed ($5,000) and many of our most senior leaders are doing the same.100% of our eligible board members and every member of the executive council are supporting the PAC by writing a check or permitting regular payroll deductions.

Make no mistake about it, the ability to contribute to the political campaigns of elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, that support our positions must be a critical part of our ongoing advocacy efforts. This is the reality of our system of government. Without your financial commitment, HPE will struggle to be heard in Washington.

To make a contribution, visit www.HPEPAC.com or contact our Senior PAC Manager, Kelly Eaton, at kelly.eaton@hpe.com. Kelly can arrange for your contribution to be made by regular payroll deduction or a one-time online process.

The second way you can help is with your voice. While HPE management will be meeting with elected officials to express the company’s point of view on critical issues, there is no substitute for the passion of constituents speaking directly to their elected representatives. In the coming months, we are going to ask you to reach out to you your Congressman and Senators about the issues that matter to HPE.

I hope you will agree to contribute to our PAC and that we can count on you to help us take a stand on important issues. In the months to come, the future of HPE may well depend on how well our voices are heard in Washington.

Best,

Meg

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I'll keep my money, thank you!

So, here are some stats on HPEPAC:

http://us-campaign-committees.insidegov.com/l/49020/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-Company-PAC-Hpe-PAC

Only $1m gathered for the 2016 election period. No wonder Meg's reaching out for the deep pockets of her well compensated employees. I wonder what the ROI for the PAC is? There are funds for both Dumb Democrats and Repulsive Repubicans.

It is a shame that Meg couldn't pull a Bean and contribute more than $5k.

This woman has taken a brand and massaged her ego, until the point she has no clue what to do and how to do it!

Company moral is an unbelievable low, and customers do not trust HPE.

What a mess!

My response to Turd when asked to take a pay cut was a strong, "No" within seconds of receiving the mail. Unlike the US we in the UK at least got a choice.

US workers already get a raw deal. Being asked to pay the lobbiests to make it worse is just taking the piss.

Meg's letter should be passed on to Fox News and somehow make it's way to the desk of Donald Trump.

Her "interaction" with employees may be despicable, but more importantly, she is shipping 1,000's upon 1,000's of jobs OVERSEAS.

Slowing down/stopping that is exactly what he was elected to do.

She was just another back-stabbing RINO who hitched herself to another monster-liar (Hillary) and now she wants what's left of a US workforce to support her efforts to sh--can everybody!

Blast it out!! Come down hard on HPE for abandoning the American Worker!!

Meg and her PAC want our donations,

In exchange for her selfish bloviations!

She’s got absolutely no clues,

Yet she asks for our dues!

She’s have us donate our own rope,

For hanging ourselves, what a dope!

She thinks that we’re self-destructible,

But PAC money’s not tax-deductible!

All is for the top Queen Bee of HPE,

She’s quite gree-dee, can’t ye see?!?

A couple months ago, after browsing around the HPE PAC web sites trying to figure out what policies they were trying to push, I gave up as their site was non-transparent, unsubscribed from the HPE PAC email list and didn't get that disingenuous memo. Not sure how I got on there in the first place. I'm sure the policies were probably pro business and anti employees. There's no way I'd donate money to causes I do not understand and work against me.

Let us not forget the Carly days when she requested employees donate vacation hours and salary cuts to avoid layoffs. And after we locked-in those donations, she laid people off anyways. That was the day I scrutinized donating anything to any company.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

What a greedy witch she is, along with all her executives. If the company is not healthy, take a look in the mirror - it was YOUR job to run the company and you failed miserably. Your solution is to collect your bonuses and deprive loyal hard working employees of a decent raise, or even worse, their jobs. Now you ask them to contribute to your cause? HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?

We’ll pay for her PAC, is her hope,

She’s thinking we’re smokin’ dope!

Bring me lawyers, meds, and money,

Well get through somehow, Honey!

Also, we need more shrinks and meds,

To fend off the voices in our heads!

Free us from the voices, we beg!

Hark! The voices, they are Meg!

Meg Meg Meg. Shame on you and your cronies

Yes lets take non existent raises and pay for offshore to be given Americans jobs. You haven't seen anything yet. Wait until April 3 when Mike Lawrie gets ahold of stuff. Meg will look like an angel

She needs to leave soon. She has not done anything good but be a awful witch!

Wow, this is brutal. Funny, but brutal...

This is Hilarious, No Bonus, Substandard Wages compared to other Tech Companies, Degradation of all of our Benefits for 3rd year in a Row, Meg takes how 25 million and she wants money from me. I am almost working for Free Now.

LOL what a Joke

I'm in! As a long time Hewlett-Packard Company / Hewlett Packard Enterprise employee. I'm going to pledge my last raise & bonus. As a matter of fact I'm going to double it with my own funds. So let's see...$0.00 plus $0.00 times two ...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said that "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."… That is how self-destructively greedy Lenin thought that “the capitalists” would be. But now Meg thinks that HPE employees are THAT self-destructively devoted to the welfare of Her and Her minions, that we will DONATE the money to buy the figurative rope by which we will be hung! Does She REALLY think that we are that stupidly self-destructive?

When we have self-defeating and even self-destructive urges, “voices in our heads”… Whatever the source(s) may be, our genes, biochemicals, upbringing, karma, or even evil spirits… To the credit of Meg and Her minions, they will help us to pay for counseling and/or meds, to arm us against such self-defeating “voices”. Say what you will about Meg; at least She is apparently opposed enough, to the evils of literal self-destruction, that She will support subsidies to combat such self-defeat… When it is in Her own interests! For that, I am very grateful… But not infinitely grateful, because I always recall, in the back of my head, that suicide is not only against my own interests (obviously!); it is also against the interests of Meg and Her minions… A productivity unit would be wasted!

Will Meg and Her minions ALSO help us to pay for counseling and/or meds, to arm us against the “voices in our heads” that urge us on towards specifically named self-defeating behaviors such as donating to HPE’s political PAC? When the source of these self-defeating “urgings” is clearly Meg Herself? And our interests are NOT aligned? Just askin’…

Meg went too far on mixing her corporate role and her political interest.

Meg should retire before ALL current and former HPI/HPE employees hate her. She received the fat compensation while laying off a lot of us in 2016. Such a greedy and attention seeking woman!

Wow is right. Shame on them what losers!!!!

This is pathetic...funny though. Maybe make meg pay for it with some of her bonus dollars instead of asking people who barely get a raise or treated like a person.

Meg’s email to the present employees is just appalling and unprofessional. It is proof she has no direction and plan to increase revenue, other than FIRE experienced, productive workers to reduce cost. She also just broke my ethics, with mixing politics in business. Just like discussing religion. Frankly, she is clueless.

News flash Meg; no one trusts and believes in you…

I was WFR'd recently, in my late 50's (like many of you). There are no words to express how thoroughly, disgustingly loathsome this woman is.

Unbelievable. Meg Whitman is living proof that money can't buy self awareness.

Now that this feeling of disgust is passing, the question I am asking now is how many of the HPE'rs will actually turn over their hard earned money and contribute to the PAC.

It is like contributing to a pool of money used to buy the rope that will be used to hang you.

Wow, just wow.

An Open Letter to Meg

Hi Meg,

You lay people off, and announce policies that make it impossible or very, very nearly impossible to be re-hired at HPE. You or your top management have at times broadcast this policy, as if you were that proud of it! Then you whine and cry to Congress, that you need more H-1B immigrants, because you just can NOT find ANY qualified American workers, anywhere!

You make us take ethics training, and tell us that (nearly word for word) “If it would look bad in the newspaper, don’t do it.” Then (as above) you willfully thwart the will of Congress, as declared by Congress when Congress passed the H-1B laws. And you force ALL of your management to LIE about “forced distribution performance reviews”, which all the managers MUST say, do NOT exist… And which reward employees for making other employees look bad, so that they can look good, killing teamwork. We have told HP / HPE management (via VOW and other channels), for more than a decade, that this is a lousy, teamwork-killing policy… Those with better office-politics back-stabbing “skills” keep their jobs, and the “losers” do not. Year after year, then, the office politics get worse and worse. Yet per HPE policy, management is NOT allowed to acknowledge the existence of the root cause (“rank and yank” performance reviews)… The ONLY managers who will tell anyone the truth, are those who have been laid off!

Many of us strongly suspect that HPE discriminates against older employees; we believe what we see. Need I remind you of http://hpagediscriminationinvestigation.com/ ? You were pre-warned several years ago of highly-suspect HP behaviors by “Fortune”; See http://fortune.com/2014/06/19/tech-job-ads-discrimination/ … Yet you did NOT fix it, as a diligent CEO would! We suspect that you waste HPE’s money paying off all those who sue, or threaten to sue. But you don’t care; you’re getting your tens of millions of dollars… Paying off those who are discriminated against, then, is just another “trivial” cost of doing business.

In the 2005-2010 timeframe (or so), HP laid off the youngsters, so that the older folks (with broader skills) could do the works of 2, 3, or 4 employees… So HP developed your so-called “inverted pyramid”… Which you are now “fixing”, by laying off the oldsters, and replacing them with youngsters! Your management chain will NOT “tell the Empress that she has no clothes”, and let you know that this is a FAILURE, because the youngsters can NOT handle the load, and/or, they have the smarts to FLEE after a few years! And you are doing this because the oldsters cost a mere 25% more in salaries! Have you NO visibility to how badly you are burning the candle at both ends? Or do your bonuses make you not care?

Your policies promise bonus payments for those whose patent applications are selected for official submission. The inventors do all of the work, to include helping translate the patent write-ups from engineer-speak to lawyer-speak… But then in the 1 or 2 weeks after that, during which the final reward checks are supposed to be getting processed… THAT is when the inventors get laid off, and never get paid! You get the IP rights; inventors get shorted the benefits that they were promised. “Legal” per your fine print, probably… Ethical? You tell me, please! Do you even have the slightest clue, what it means, to treat others the way that you’d like to be treated?

Then, finally, to add insult to injury, you ask us to help PAY to lobby for the policies by which you cheat us, the stockholders, and the public, and enrich yourself!

WOW, just WOW !

As if Citizens United was not bad enough for the American people and for American democracy now this. The sheer gall of this BILLIONAIRE to ask what is left of the workforce she has gutted to handover what little of their pay they have after years of zero wage growth in HP/HPE beggars belief. It was the actions of corporate elitists and their bought and paid for political buddies (in this case Clinton) that opened the door to that bad joke Trump and now they want their poor indentured workforce to pay to correct it. Nothing about my former boss surprises me.

Kiss my %ss

Go ahead and match per % wise. Say you make 100k, she makes 35mil. She gave 5k, cough up your 15 bucks slackers.

Good grief! Some nerve. Laying off thousands of folks, then ask for donations to a political action that will push policy to allow more layoffs/H1-B workers. I wish I could say what I'm really thinking.

first products need to be made in US for the US people which has very high standard compared to other countries. companies top level executives make more money by employing overseas and cut US employees pension, benefits, wages, etc. HP/HPE companies always laying off people and cutting peoples job and not focusing on what's best for long term employees and customers. They want to off shore most of the workers to Latin America or Asia/ India for cheap labor and all the millionaires who own the stock get to be on the board and enjoy our hard earned labor in US. The employees/ workers need to have more control of the decisions than just the stock owner. Its sad that now no one really want to vouch for job in USA they just want money, and more money. million is not enough they want billions. All these big companies employ people overseas and they want to trade their stock in USA, its just wrong. agree #like: Post ID: @LQ0PfPp-1zpy, Post ID: @LQ0PfPp-iun, Post ID: @LQ0PfPp-ofi

It's amazing that Meg wants American workers to help fight a law that would place a punitive taxation on companies who seek to offshore.

It's beyond despicable. It's downright evil.

The law doesn't have a chance to pass, anyway. Too many of Trump's friends wouldn't like that.

"A well-regarded industry analyst recently wrote that, if this tax is enacted, it could profoundly degrade the financial performance of our company. Such a development could threaten HPE’s ability to sustain existing jobs in the US and around the world. We need your help to educate Washington policy makers about reforms that make sense and create an environment for companies like HPE to thrive and produce jobs."

or to translate the heart of this: "We are such incompetent and arrogant managers that we can only make profit (or at least fool investors that we are making profit) in this company if we can coerce people into working for us for far sub-standard wages and conditions. We're hoping the company lasts long enough for us to all retire in style and the rest of you ....."

Change is good. Liberals and Dems got us in this freeking situation now its going to take an act of Trump to get us out. Sure hope he keeps on track and has the energy to finish what he has started. Trump is deeply driven by the Left and Liberalism and Dems. You don't know it you are feeding his frenzy. Thank you. Its about time someone is doing something good for this country. As for Meg Whitman she is ONE BIG ugly failure. Like the Duke Bros she will be driven into the ground when things cave. Screw PACs what have they really done for the common man. Keep on trucking Trump you are doing the people work.

Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett- founders of an iconic American company. Can't imagine in their day they would have the nerve to ask employees for lobbyist money. It's like telling folks how to vote. Even on those issues we might agree upon, something feels slimy about that. Not all "well regarded industry experts" agree with Meg's assessment but of course there was no mention of that.

By my calculations your $5000 is about the same percentage of your $35M salary this year as $15 would be for mine. Not even going to send that much though. When you gave Hillary that big hug at the end of the third debate you screwed up and now you'll take down a once great company. Don't expect that the folks that you've been kicking thus far will come to your aid.

Meg can kiss my @$$, she is one nervy, greedy piece of work. I have never donated to a PAC, and if I ever started it certainly wouldn't be to benefit a company that thinks so little of it's employees in America!

On it, Meg. I will call my representative right now and demand H1-B reform! And then demand he do something to penalize employers who keep "bestshoring" American jobs!

With the courage of anonymity, although a career ending company wide email in the tradition of Delta House is almost worth it, I'd rather have the CEO and board of directors replaced with inspiring engineers that can create success without blaming or crediting Washington, D C.

I never gave to the PAC. It seemed ridiculous since they weren't very transparent about what they were lobbying for, just "HP/HPE values."

Are you kidding me? Fired me after 10+ years so I could do the same job as a contractor. If HPE can't make with same country workers, bye bye HPE

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