Hock has made the decision to drop Slack for all of broadcom moving forward.
"This is the end of Slack, no exceptions"
Classy, Hock. Classy.
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He doesn't need feedback from employees because his will is law anyway.
He can declassify documents just by thinking about it!
Slack su-ks. Just get a room. Y'all are back in the office anyway, right?
Hock is a giant choade
Going through emails also indicates a bad political climate.
Political? WTF?
Yep. If you have an issue tracking system and you log everything there, that should be enough. Or a Slack channel, as in VMware. Or any internal public place where you have to think about before posting something. If you're going through emails to find out what's going on, you likely have the culture where you think in terms of "what did this guy say last time? Let me find that email and get back at him."
Going through emails also indicates a bad political climate.
Political? WTF?
It isn’t an explicit tracking system, just like email isn’t an explicit tracking system but has value.
And the wiki, yep, no more confluence, who needs that kind of cr-p in the new world order.
Let’s also shift off our current tracking system by deleting it and moving to something else and start from scratch.
Same for our internal git, just take a fresh copy of the code base and forget about the history.
Hey, it’s Hock’s world, we just suffer in it.
Message received sir!
F the customers and F the employees from doing their jobs effectively to save money and provide “order”
I was not aware of all the techniques to make you contemplate leaving Broadcom every day. Now I know. I should have left but wanted to see how it played out.
This is like the work equivalent of your partner abusing you. Some days it doesn’t happen, but shít happens often enough to make you wonder just what the he-l you are doing in this situation. You can’t point to one single event in isolation as being over the top, but it adds up and it’s been less than a month.
I don’t need your RSUs, the folks saying “take the money and shut up” should realize there is more to life than money. And don’t “snowflake” me, I’ve been in the army and seen real combat in Afghanistan. This guy is a total A hole.
Email should not be used for solving and discuss issues. Hock should delete all emails as well.
Again, painfully evident just how much you’re struggling to understand what’s being talked about here and how Slack is used...
I do not how VMware functions internally, so perhaps VMware has a strong case for using Slack for tracking issues. However, my experience in working at companies that used email to track issues has been they weren't both organized and operationally efficient. Going through emails also indicates a bad political climate.
Whatever happens let’s make sure to argue with each other!
l “VMware using slack as a substitute for an external KB and internal defect/bug/case management tool has been miserable.”
Again, painfully evident just how much you’re struggling to understand what’s being talked about here and how Slack is used. I’ll give you a hint(at this point it’s just embarrassing), it’s not a substitute for what you keep parroting back or for those systems.
I thought you were actually serious until I got to "This is going to be souch better for customers."
KB articles exist for a reason. Issue tracking systems exist for a reason. Case management with accountability metrics also exists.
VMware using slack as a substitute for an external KB and internal defect/bug/case management tool has been miserable.
I am thrilled BCOM has a partner, internal employee, and customer accessible toolset to replace Slack for serious work. KBs and incident tracking in Wolken will replace repeatedly begging engineers or people on the Internet for help, and there's finally a process to publish answers where they can be seen again by other customers and metrics tracked to size the impacts. VMware has ignored basic principles of tech support and product improvement for far too long. This is going to be souch better for customers.
Slack should not be used for tracking defects and issues and using it indicates an operational problem.
Email should not be used for solving and discuss issues. Hock should delete all emails as well.
|“Slack should not be used for tracking defects and issues and using it indicates an operational problem.”
It’s clearly going over your head what Slack being used for here and what its loss means.
He believes people will line up to eat it as long as you add enough money into cr-p.
Slack should not be used for tracking defects and issues and using it indicates an operational problem.
| Do you also use punch cards?
That’s probably a bit too advanced, maybe a speak n spell is more up their alley
He probably couldn’t handle a jitterbug
Whatever Hock does is wrong to you losers. Then just leave.
Yep! Bye bye.
Enjoy the prison s-x.
We have tracking systems for this.
Do you also use punch cards?
This is the d-mbest idea by far. I've looked up product-specific errors on slack
countless times to find someone has faced a similar issue months or years ago. We're
really just going to lose that ability?
Entirely disagreee. The d-mbest idea was to use slack as a issue / defect tracking system at all. Full stop. We have tracking systems for this.
We're really just going to lose that ability?
Yes. This is the first step in screwing the customers and outsourcing all support.
After sending the logs 3x to a clueless dimwit who is paid about 10% of your current salary, customers will give up but yet will keep paying. In fact they will pay even more.
In Hock’s world, the only thing worse than customers demanding something are employees demanding something.
Classic playbook in action.
This is the d-mbest idea by far. I've looked up product-specific errors on slack countless times to find someone has faced a similar issue months or years ago. We're really just going to lose that ability?
The company that owns Slack (Salesforce) is probably trying to raise prices and gouge Broadcom on price negotiations for thousands of new Slack users coming from VMware.
Google chat is good enough.
Remember Broadcom’s business model is reduced costs and increased margins.
We have a large body of knowledge stored in slack. It’s like saying switch email providers but now you have finally achieved inbox zero!
Way to go - just like communism - you all must use google chat because you all must Google chat.
cultural difference. corporate america is very different from the rest of the world, with the exception of much of the EU and UK who are much softer than everyone else.
You forgot… “Don’t make me say it twice!”
What an àsshole
You'll use the Google Suite and like it!
He doesn't need feedback from employees because his will is law anyway.
He’s scared of it most likely.