Is anybody still missing the old VMware?
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The amount of attention DEI got in the old VMware was highly unhealthy. It came to a point where people planned AND made career moves, just because of DEI and not because they actually qualified. That was sick. And what about the whole language check, to the point that someone actually created a DEI language checker plugin for your email program. Seriously? I’m all for inclusion but this was abuse!
Let’s also mention the insane amount of middle management that got hired in the last 4 years. So many managers and directors without direct reports, all consuming 200K/year easily and not adding any value. The amazing fact is that the company still made a profit! At the same time, general staff in Europe gets told that VMware isn’t compensating for 13% inflation because “we don’t want to contribute to the vicious circle of inflation”. What the f***? Who do you think you are?
When people say they miss the old VMware, I think they say they miss the VMware of Pat Gelsinger. When EPIC2 values were an actual thing. When there weren’t 7 or more layers of BS management between the people doing the actual work and the CEO. When the company was facing outward and carrying a vision that made sense to everyone in the company. When community also meant we got together with the whole company and you really felt part of it and proud of it. That all deteriorated quickly after he left. EPIC2 is now nothing more than hollow phrases, only believed in by a few long timers and certainly not lived by management on almost any level.
I for one miss that old Gelsinger VMware but I realize it will never come back. No reason to dwell in the past. BC is certainly not going to bring back anything valuable. You better go and look for salvation elsewhere. Hock Tan is only interested in money, nothing else. He said so himself on multiple occasions. If you expect anything else, you can get the f*** out.
No one cares about your TC.
That is an abnormal amount of training on the topic. Ever wonder if there was a reason you were enrolled in so many?
“LOL that did not happen. “
Yes, it did happen. Five different training sessions each year. Two different teams. Same training sessions highly encouraged (required). Unconscious bias, micro aggression, some test training program, some little breakout session training on DEI, etc.
And btw. P6, cleared $600k last year. Yeah, pi-s off.
LOL that did not happen. I'm a manager and the training was a single 30-min session per year that you could click through. DEI was there alongside s-xual harassment, workplace abuse, etc.
It's hard to believe that you were so triggered over such an inconsequential thing that has zero impact on you. Or, actually, maybe not so hard to believe at all.
Sure, I miss working for VMware, where I didn’t have to work very hard and got paid handsomely. However, I don’t mess all of the diversity, equity and inclusion bullsh-t that made me switch from having empathy to fatigue after no less than 10 different training sessions on why I’m a piece of sh-t for being a tall, white, straight male.
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Well, the vast majority of tech companies are US.
Our jobs were shipped away for no other reason than they can find underpaid coolies overseas - despite the fact that while paying US workers 10x the rate these companies still became the most profitable and richest entities on earth, stockholders profited immensely, and the founders the wealthiest men ever to live.
Yet it wasn't enough. So, cue the underpaid geographies who take short cuts, have huge teams with less productivity, seem to despise testing of any sort, and quite frankly haven't really brought any observable innovations to the table after over a decade of offshoring.
Honestly - where is the really big, cool Indian "thing?" Where is the amazing Eastern European platform? China at least produced Tik Tok... but that was simply a clone of Vine.
Should we care?
The topic starter is typically US based ... could not care less about anything non-us, zero empathy on what is still to come for non-us employees ... typical but very disturbing.
"But it does employ cünts like you."
Simply proving the posters point - childish name calling.
BCom doesnt employ children,
But it does employ cünts like you.
You guys are ridiculous...
"I hate working for Bcom.
Zero training, zero rapport, zero vision, zero synergy.
VMware was an absolute pleasure to work for.
It's a shambles now."
You realise you are just now part of BCom - if there is lack of training, blame VMware, lack of vision, blame our own management, no synergy, look at the whitespace opportunities - I know I am.
BCom doesnt employ children, maybe you need to go look for someone who does.
"I hate working for Bcom.
Zero training, zero rapport, zero vision, zero synergy.
VMware was an absolute pleasure to work for.
It's a shambles now."
LEAVE THEN and stop your childish bi--hing. Your life is yours to determine
how BC will keep up with development and improvement of the products
They don’t need to. They will just cut the product with more fentanyl and the customers will keep consuming their vDrug.
I am wondering, how BC will keep up with development and improvement of the products, while lots of highly skilled developers are jumping ship?
Shít show...
I don’t miss the vmware culture which was a celebration of mediocrity with a guarantee that any and all behavior will not result in getting fired.
Now we have the extreme opposite, doing your job is like working in a sweat shop run by a psycho cult leader. There are still many incompetent VMware employees that survived, at least in the US. The incompetence is so deeply rooted even the cult leader can’t clean house.
Eventually there will be complete turnover with Hock’s drones running around parroting his every word and proudly telling customers to take it up the àss.
BC the most innovative company in the world? ROFL.
BC does not do innovation, they let others take risks and if it looks promising they buy it. Innovation costs money and includes risk, two things Kim Jong Tan does not like.
And the transition, it's not over, far from that. European countries have just started and there will be cuts until November.
With regards to missing the old VMware, people are massively jumping ship. Declining welcome offers, people who accepted the welcome offer who few weeks later want to bail because BC s*cks, people cheering because they to a severance offer. So YES, people are missing the old VMware.
@1rcu+1ra0J3PC
Enjoying your crystal me-h I see.
People were happy in VMware. I have been told by Bcom staff to get out while I still can. I have yet to meet anyone who likes it there. They're like zombies.
No. VMware was a deeply corrupt and fraudulent company hiding behind EPIC2. It deserved Broadcom and all that has happened to it.
You are working for the most innovative company in world
https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/who-is-broadcom
Yes, BC is a-s
Damn right I am. Working for the PE group that decided to assume Broadcom’s name after buying them su-ks.
Transition is not over until the country with the best labour laws is done.
Customer Transition to other platforms is commencing, those co--y loudmouth CIO's who threatened to leave on heated calls now might have to!
November just decided which ba--s to throw into the air.
They're still in the air, waiting to see who will catch them, if at all.
The transition is not over by a longshot.
I hate working for Bcom.
Zero training, zero rapport, zero vision, zero synergy.
VMware was an absolute pleasure to work for.
It's a shambles now.
'I would say pretty much every VMware customer is. Also, the transition isn't over, it is just getting started. '
^^This^^
Still have the EUC spinoff to complete and a bunch of transition employees aren't done yet. Still plenty of time to pi-s off more customers..
Europe is still in transition!
I would say pretty much every VMware customer is. Also, the transition isn't over, it is just getting started.