Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

The top performers always leave first. The low performers hold on to the bitter end because they know it will be difficult to find a job. This has been happening for years, so there are few 30 and 40 year old top performers left. Additionally, many senior top performers took the early retirement package last fall. The remaining top performers I know are starting to look.

The collaboration that RTO is supposed to bring won't happen because Intel gets an "F" for co-location. At it's peak our team of ~40 members was spread across Hillsboro OR, Chandler AZ, Santa Clara CA, Seattle WA, Austin TX, Guadalajara Mexico, Bangalore India, and Ganesh Poland. We spent all day on the phone before covid. Nothing has changed.

RTO is my last straw. I scheduled my sabbatical in Sept., and I'll retire when my vacation runs out in Oct.

I can hold down a part time job at home.

If they pay me more, then I would give it up and RTO.

“Hurrr durrrr, meet me outside I’m gonna beat you up for (correctly) calling out that I’m a useless fraud”

Lmao dork

I agree that RTO should have stopped at the end of the plandemic, but also realize that LBT will correct this (and many other) errors in judgement made by ELT.

It will not be settled by roboposting about it, so maybe find some more interesting topic to obsess over.

Suggestion: obsess over how to add value, because that will keep you employed over time. If your manager doesn't know how to perceive value-added, then find a new manager.

Is there any source to this? Or just made up?

@e0, you’re not doing that anyways

I’m not working 5am to 10pm from the office

Let the people who can't drive 30 mins to earn a paycheck go. You aren't finding a job elsewhere in this market anytime soon

Your coworkers are not your family or friends. Right now st intel all would fu-k you over in a heart beat

d5, that’s true. But with no evidence either way why force RTO and lose more good people? If the goal is to drive out employees indiscriminately then, by all means, demand RTO.

Maybe OP Shoulda Taken The Package!

@cw there is no evidence quality will drop either

OP is right. RTO will cause many key employees to leave and there’s no evidence that work quality will improve.

OP and @by might be some of the softest people at Intel.

Enjoy your new office view (either from Ronler or from the comfort of your home after you’re axed).

Bye! 👋

Given you are a manager and think this way, you are part of the problem, and not the solution. Thankfully, LBT will have you chopped soon... and hopefully save Intel.

They're collecting fat checks and making the workers eat chicken noodle soup with toothpicks. That is an analogy for not having the proper tools and resources to do their job. Their job that the higher ups could never do - due to their incompetance and general lack of skills, knowledge, and understanding.

@c9, you are a total wasted space and not worth my time so go cry to your boyfriend, bye-bye.

@c8 Stop trying to string coherent sentences together. It’s not working.

Where and when do you feel like getting your @ss handed to you?

@c7, if you are the same person? You have a such a big threat from such a little guy, that’s what your wife said to me or maybe it was your boyfriend I can’t remember.

@c5 Is that a yes? Lfg

Since OP was never a manager, who cares?

Posters on this site are so gullible.

Sheeple please.

@by, wow big threat from such a little bi--h who cries about working in the office, maybe you need to get out of your moms basement and come to work. You would be the first person taking someone to HR over something because that’s who you are, just a little pa--y.

@bx, some things are funny and that’s not one of them, we know who you are.

@bb If you love the office so much, let’s you and I meet up on campus. I’ll stay after hours so we can “talk”. I’d say you should wear a mouthpiece, but that won’t make much difference. Pu-s @ss bi---h.

What we need is to lock the entire Board in a closed room with Derek Simmons.

total agree. compensation and benefit is now lesser and now want to take away WFH benefit. LBT probably the last ceo of intel. lol

RTO and RTT is a way to diversify the layoff process. The headcount is too much and it is not possible to put it all in one bucket. Forcing RTO and RTT will weed out a certain percentage. HR has this data.

If RTO is the direction to take, consider Fab—where people are working 100% on-site and it's resulting in billions of losses. The real question is: can you perform your job effectively from home? If the answer is yes, then do it and deliver. In DCAI, for the past two years, I've been hearing that AI is the future, and they've downsized investments in Xeon, claiming all resources will go towards AI development. However, to this day, I haven't seen a compelling roadmap. If I’m in the office, what should I do when the leadership team can't come up with a clear plan? Justin's leadership has effectively derailed DCAI—under his watch, all the architects and chip designers have left due to the environment he fostered. Pallavi manages over 2,000 people in SW, and look at what she’s delivering. The real issue lies within the middle management and executive leadership layers. If Intel is to survive, these layers need fixing first. People at the bottom have little say in what’s going on.

@ae, then he come on here and tell us how that went.

@b0, if working in the office is causing you constant discomfort, what a weak little pa--y you are.

It's all about getting the job done, whether from on-site, home, the moon wherever. And if upper management doesn't know if the job is or isn't getting done, then they don't know the actual job at hand. If they had led the company with successful planning, we wouldn't be having these discussions. In lieu of that, they pretend to manage by squealing out about RTO.

@OP: as an employee I see some benefits to collocated teams if you have the desks. We don’t. I’m glad someone here understands thay we’ve already had layoffs past the tipping point of doing thd job right so more layoffs will simply result in more dropped ba--s.

You can safely ignore the other poastings. Someone who is not an employee who wants to goose the stock is brigading us. EG we both know that being in constant discomfort all day long doesn’t result in a job well done and that an employee vote would resoundingly support WFH but this site that is open to non employees has LOUD RTO LOVERS.

Why does the decision has to come from outside? If the majority of the company feel it is better to go one way then go with that. The important thing is to find the real opinions of the majority.

OP's comment is typical of the attitude inside Intel - "Productivity & performance don't matter. My comfort matters first"

@OP+1jqaxzjnw

Please send an email directly to LBT and schedule a followup meeting with him.

If tidbits is how you run your staff meetings then good luck to your staff OP

The pain for OP seems to be he/she has to leave the cozy environs of home and go to office.

So you say you are a manager? It’s interesting that you get on this site and make the statements that you do. You state “our people are not easily replaceable” well some sure are and if RTO causes some people to leave then so be it, perhaps they weren’t worth keeping.

The environment has already reached toxic levels.

There are thousands of people replaceable and not worth backfilling for either

Make the decisions or live with incompetent people for another 3 years