Thread regarding VMware layoffs

When is the office is Sudan opening? It aligns with Hock’s moral compass so well, should be a cost savings that will boost the stock to new highs.

My áss hurts so much from HT scréwing with me. But I need those RSUs for àss surgery and retirement. Any àssvice from other disposable assets in the empire?

BTW: What is wrong in doing sh---y job for money? There are people who need to do far worse things for their living.

Yes. But what makes a shïtty job 10x shîttǐer is a shĩtty boss. We have Hock, king of the shït. At least he is old and will die before I retire.

Anyone else noticed that all reactions net to zero. Seems HT had sone spare cash to hire a bot to level out all critique on his money machine.

BTW: What is wrong in doing sh---y job for money? There are people who need to do far worse things for their living.

Stock price since vcf layoffs, +$10

Wall street wants to ki-l the golden goose of the stock market. A couple of generations have been fed this constant narrative that stocks will always go up and the best bet for inflation. Now everyone and their mother is up to their eye ba--s in stocks and in the retirement accounts. The pigs are ripe to be eaten. The buy the faaking dip masses won't relent easily. But all bubbles pop eventually. It just appears that the good times will last forever. But the cycle of life has both good and bad times. Don't fall for this pigs fattening scheme of Wall Street. Save some for a rainy day. Don't roll the dice with all your savings.

Globalization is failing. All countries are heavily indebted. The wealth of the western nations has been stripped and stashed away in the tax havens. It is that time again to do a reset. Chaos. Order out of chaos will come in a long time from now. If you don't enough money to build a bunker like Zuck then at least build a strong room under your house. Best of luck.

Every day, every week, every month and every quarter that the fat cats survive, they are adding millions in net worth. They will keep this show going on a day to day basis and keep doing random things. Everyone else can roll the dice and deal with the consequences. Too bad if you can't afford your mortgage and car payments without a job. You will get some sevaaraance, but not much.

Not sure they this is a surprise to people over 3 years since Broadcom announced the intention to acquire VMware.

Don’t you all remember the ‘levers’ of the investor presentation where reducing operational expenses was one of those levers (in other words RIFs).

If you stayed you must would have known you were rolling the dice, that’s the trade off with taking the RSU handcuffs. As HT himself has said, VMware is dead, you’re now employed by a different beast and you need to adopt a different mindset.

Ride it out if you’re fortunate enough, play the game, cash in the RSUs as long as you can and don’t put a minutes more work in than you have to as it won’t make any difference.

Best of luck to the survivors and for those who’ve had the bad luck of being RIF’d hope you all find better employment very soon and thrive in less toxic environments.

Employees are nothing more than a disposable asset

So what? If you don't like it, you can have your own business.

Lindsey Graham. Game on. What is HT going to do about it? Too bad the market is closed for the day.

AI will replace your job and the stock will go up. This is the way.

Stock was 261 on June 3rd. What is your point? It was 154 on April 6.

Stock price since vcf layoffs, +$10

HT is rewarded for it all of course.

It’s just biz, nothing personal.

Now STFU and get back to work, mgmt’s second LearJet isn’t going to pay for itself.

The 9.0 layoffs will ripple through like the pig in the python. The first to go are the engineers who worked on it before the release. Then marketing. Then sales. Then support. 9.1 rinse and repeat. We just need management and program managers (deep state).

Correction @OP

Employees are nothing more than expendable livestock

Keep the lights on operations can be run from Bangalore and Sofia.

Too expensive!

Decades of tribal knowledge flushed down the toilet. In VMware there is no real documentation. That was always the culture. A large chaotic startup culture. You don't need too much knowledge to keep the lights on and do incremental changes. You don't need fancy engineers working in Palo Alto. HQ is for a few Product Managers and Program Managers (deep state). Keep the lights on operations can be run from Bangalore and Sofia.

Who is working on 9.1? Line up. Blind folded. Ready. Aim.

Someone has to pay the price for the 9.0 disaster. Blame it on the senior engineers.

I don't mind that employees are disposable asset, that's part of the business. My problem is that the decision makers take decisions about layoffs and who gets to stay who is fired etc. on personal whims, benefits and prejudices instead of actual business reasons. We have managers firing good employees so that they could save a couple of other poor performers who are from same faith as the manager, or manager letting someone go simply coz they were a female and so on. And hardly any management folks fired although they were the ones taking poor decisions.

If decision makers were rational, logical and objective, then it would have been ok. But we have many aholes in management now, esp in network related teams.

HT and the line of doom!

Coming to a theatre near you!!!

Rated FU