Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@f2 of course you work in Arizona lol, explains everything. Engineer for a fab that su-ked a-s at supporting and producing the sh-tshow 10nm and has no current mfg process to support.

Checks out

I don't believe OP is such a Quitter Troll.

@f2 you clearly have no idea how TSMC operates. It’s a meat grinder with full onsite presence everyday. We get it though, you’d rather lay in bed and look at a few SPC charts looking for OOCs and call that developing a process

@ch TSMC engineers/techs only go into the fab for specific purposes if they're truly needed to fix a hardware issue or to run a manual test, not just to hang out randomly for the sake of in-fab presence. You don't know this industry, why are you here? If you're in Arizona let's meet up and I could teach you a thing or two :)

Speak for yourself. I'm Mr. Terrific

@aw "going into the fab causes more particles/defects"... lol that has to be the weakest excuse I've ever head to justify not going to the fab. You know what else causes particles/defects? A sh-t process being troubleshot by a bunch of engineers laying in bed.

@bc being laid off does

@bb Because someone getting a big raise just screams "low performer." (eye roll)

@b4 or maybe you’re being delusional and you weren’t actually that good of a performer, or weren’t efficient and spent 3x as long doing tasks than others

Food for thought

@b4 had his head so far up his own @ss that he forgot the most important aspects of his job

@OP Honestly you sound like a terrible employee...aka the perfect Intel employee. Work as little as possible, produce as little as possible, su-k up to your manager, manipulate people & play the game to keep your job.

My experience working remotely was much different. It meant being available most of the time. Early mornings? check. Late evenings? check. Weekends? checkaroo. Did I manage to run an errand or two during the day? Sure. But overall Intel was getting about 60-70 hours a week out of me. And not slacking off hours like you mention. I'm talking putting out fires time. I was highly productive, successful, and respected. My last review was glowing, with an EE and a nice raise. But what I wasn't good at is what you talk about; su-king up, playing the game. I was too focused on getting things done worry about stuff like that. And for my trouble I got laid off. But you know what, me getting laid off says a lot more about the low character of my manager than it does about me.

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@av Hello, I appreciate your sp---y attitude but no fab employees hired during COVID were 100% remote as far as I'm aware. I and all of my cohort hired in late 2021 were trained in the fab for months and have always been expected to visit periodically. Remote work is great for days where we focus on process issues, data analysis, and basically anything that doesn't require actual hardware work.

Going into the fab for the sake of it just adds more particles/defects. You clearly don't work here or are a salty low performer who got laid off. Please go outside and touch grass.

Additionally, much of this company is focused on chip design which can be done entirely remote much like many of the engineers at NVIDIA (the most valuable semi company). Even if fab employees were forced to obey the cult of RTO, for what reason should they return?

You're not thinking clearly. Again, go touch grass and meet new friends. There's more to life than getting on your knees for LBT. He's not going to let you hit, unfortunately.

@a9 maybe for established employees that’s true, but Intel massively hired tons of engineers during COVID… do you really think these people were being trained effectively? How many engineers worked at Intel during this years-long era and never even went into the fab to see how their tools run? You’re delusional to think that being 100% remote (for new employees especially) had no impact or that their productivity was the same as someone who was trained onsite and in the fab.

We get it though, you don’t want to lose your WFH perk so you keep parroting The Studies(TM) that show people are even more productive at home! Maybe rhat was true for the first year of COVID lockdown, but it’s definitely not the case across the board

...as in TD Ameritrade?

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Nice fanfic LARP, if you mentioned basketball somewhere I'd assume this was LBT himself coping over his outdated onsite fetish. Grow up, most high end tech companies support remote work nowadays to attract high end talent.

Speaking as somebody who remained on site during covid, we absolutely saw many people clearly slacking off during WFH. Not everyone, maybe half. Some slowed way down (on tasks not impacted by being at home), but some fell off the planet, getting just enough done to not be obvious. Always mysteriously blocked, answering IM’s and emails twice a day, etc. Their favorite trick was to fire off an email to on of us asking for urgent help, then turning on a mouse jiggler for the next 4 hours. Green in teams, but never replies to an IM. Always the same people.

@a4 I think he's in TD because I see his points glaringly obvious there. WTH are they doing because they sure aren't executing on time

this is a troll, why are you bothering to write this

Studies don't show any evidence of significant productivity differences between remote vs onsite work, you're just making this up.

Additionally you're literally lying about our competitors all doing RTO. NVIDIA is well known for being remote friendly and I know several folks there who can attest to this.

Be smarter, it's not that hard.

I mentored a new hire who, on 5th day said he wanted to work independently. Never wanted to come to office even once a week and chose to be 100% remote. His productivity was 50% of what would have been expected.

Looks like the Quitter Troll is having second thoughts about quitting and instead is just gonna troll about it some more.

I learned it very early that the way to get recognition is to work on a task force. No one will care about how it got messed up to the point where it requires a task force. If you do a good job and be diligent that your component has no critical bugs that needs firefighting, you would never get recognized. You just met the expectation. If you mess up and worked day and night to ungate some product milestone, you were a hero ! It was an inverted reward system.

I was so frustrated with this reward system that I even questioned with my manager with examples at that time who I according to me was a good manager. He agreed with me, but there was nothing he could do about it. He is no longer at Intel though.

I don't believe OP ever worked for Intel.