Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Don't stay or work at ShitTel. You are an id--t if You Do.
Only trade stock for profits.

Work ur hardest. Give company ur best. Why would anyone put energy into slacking when easier to do what ur paid for. Attitude is everything.

It's old, self-centered, crooked codgers like @OP that have put Intel into the garbage can.

I'm the OP.

I've been with the company for a few decades now.

At one time, I used to take things personally and gave the company 100%. It took a toll on my family.

A senior manager saw this and took me for a drink many years ago. Asked me to stop taking things personally and putting so much heart into the company. Told me that at the end of the day, I'm really just a number to the company. The company has now changed and no longer rewards like the old days. By caring so much, I've now become the troublemaker. I could no longer speak up like the old days, as it's now no longer the polite thing to do. Asked me to let things fall over and fail. Pointed out a few people to me as examples of having a good life at work and can't be touched with a 10-foot pole, as they get along with everyone. They weren't good engineers or people who excelled at their job; they didn't even put in close to a 40-hour work week. It was their showmanship that made them excel. The decision was mine of how to move forward. Reminded me the company had long changed and wasn't family.

Your education, your race, and your age don't matter; DEI does matter. It's not how well you engineer, nor is it the risks you take for the company. It's really how your personal skills play out with your coworkers and fit into the good employee profile that HR wants.

Care less, do less, and collect the paychecks!

OP is uneducated American worker that don't have any degree.

OP and everyone here sounds like an immigrant from a low GDP per capita country. Go home please. This attitude is why your home country is a failed nation

@OP
We can only hope that those AI management agents don't take the Intel management class and hallucinate nepotism and the good old boys network. 😂

@cj
I guarantee AI can more easily replace a manager. I'm fairly certain sometime in the near future the workers will actually report to AI agents. It'll be a while before autonomous robots can replace hands-on workforce doing repair upgrade and PMs. And some of those hands on techs and engineers will be repairing and maintaining the robots after that.

It doesn't matter how hard you work on a sinking ship. The stock price doesn't tell the truth story. It will take all your cash to pay government and Intel debts while you owe more tax to pay with high interest every year until you die.

As of 2026 Intel is primarily owned by corporate and institutional investors including Vangard and BlackRock with a significant equity stake held by the US government. You can work as hard as you want to turn the ship around but the ship is No longer Intel. Didn’t you get the memo?

ShitTel is the great place to sh-t 😀 Don't work harder or you get laid off.

Do not share critical technical information with colleagues or managers. Otherwise, 100% someone will steal your knowledge, and back stab you to push you out of the train.

@OP Wow, this has to be post of the year! The pay is decent, and it pays the bills.

@bx You're 100% correct. One can't care, and if you do, you'll be the one suffering. I stopped caring after the departure of Pat, and now I'm a much happier person at work.

Why are you still working at ShitTel ?

@ca
Most managers at Intel contribute little of actual value. Their main activities are (a) attending meetings and putting roadblocks or additional work or questions for the people actually doing the work, rather then providing any assistance resources (b) asking what is the status of this or that and when is this or that going to get completed (c) doing performance reviews which is basically recycling your self-evaluation.
How come employees are at risk from AI and not managers?

@ab
This mode of being employed won't change until managers jump into the hard projects and start contributing brain power and skills and operating there group like a self directed work team. I always had the most respect for a manager when they were willing to participate and get their hands dirty like a team member. Truthfully the only way to weed these individuals out is to have people filtering throughout the company observing what management is actually doing. And I don't mean work on their laptop or in meetings I mean what have they contributed to solving the problems that need to be solved.

Very true post. Treat Intel as it treats you: a cost benefit calculation and nothing more. Do not go above and beyond or donate your personal time to compensate for poor management, poor planning, understaffing, etc.

Yo forget to beg for more layoffs every year so we can take longer vacations out of towns.

@ab .. Besides the astronomically bad corporate road mapping from top 'management', the worst of Intel's internal problems came from slackers in middle 'management'. The people who I wondered "What do they do for a living?" were most always there, and often slowing down the employees under them. A big part of the rot is right there. But if top management can't deliver a winning road map, it pretty much doesn't matter anyway.

After I left Intel (for what I thought was good) I ended up returning for a year (expecting that return that to be longer). The project I hired on for was so dysfunctional and non-managed, it got the better of me a few times and caused a wee bit of conflict in a manner I had never experienced in my prior 20+ years with the company. So I took RSVP and retired for good. In retrospect my main takeaway from that year was (and this is not like me at all) is that I HAD CARED TOO MUCH. I should have been like a duck letting water roll off its back. Actually, I didn't really need the money and should have vacationed, but that's a different matter.

It's only fair. Treat Intel like it has treated its employees in recent years.

Childish and not relevant.

Yeah don't forget to put your bull sh-t on the street on good days. Save the bear sh-t to put on street on bad days. The most important things not to forget is to sh-t a lot in the toilets for hours if RTO is required or mandated.

This sounds like so many I work with. I see lots of notices of absence and shockingly little performance. This mode of operation is between quiet quitting and mediocrity. For everyone around you that has to pick up the slack, if you lack real talent and potential, I would hope the system would get rid of you but as the building is full, of people like this, it appears to be a very prevalent and successful strategy. This is the cultural rot of the hardest kind to get rid of.

Changing hiring practice towards merit and away from DEI quotas will help, but for the many courteous parasitical low performers already in house, will need more mass layoffs to reduce the total. Converting these individuals to actual performers may be impossible and perhaps we are back to a business strategy where we can tolerate their organization drag on performance? Surely cutting down on non-innovating VP would be a better place to put effort but both are roadblocks to an Intel fighting for survival.