Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@fd Connelly. It's Jennifer Connelly from Requiem for a Dream he's referring to.

GentleFur?
At a loss - who is it?

Who's Jennifer? Jennifer Love Hewitt?

@e7 it is because Intel notifies everyone when they start planning the layoffs. This means people have to wait for months to find out if they still have a job. The companies you mentioned don't announce anything until they execute the layoff. This has always been Intel's model for layoffs.

@bb Well you're just dripping with compassion aren't you.

I don't believe OP, that this is the worst layoff..ever.

@e7
My guess - other companies layoffs are largely program driven.
Intel has such a bad rep for doing this action indiscriminately that it has destroyed company morale.

Does anyone have a theory on why other Silicon Valley companies (GOOG, AMZN, MSFT et al) are able to pull off clean cut layoffs (literally done on one Friday morning when logins don't work) and more importantly, with no impact to morale or drama on the surviving employees who go on to power the company to greater success.

Why does Intel get stuck with this Game of Thrones like political mud fest every time? This happened under the previous CEO too. Months and months of uncertainty, destroyed morale and plummeting productivity.

I dunno, seems like a pretty awesome layoff to me.

If you are gonna go, then go big.

Ya Shoulda Taken The Package!

Announced on April and dragging on for three months. Mid level managers that should be laid off are the ones deciding who should be cut...what's joke

@am It has always astounded me how employees think they are owed so much information from the company. They owe you NOTHING. No company behaves the way you think intel should in your little fantasy. Get over it.

@ac I’ve worked here for almost 15 years and it’s always the most worthless old guys that invoke the name of Andy Grove or other Intel founders. The reality is that you su-k at your job but you’re still here because you sit in the cafe all day bullsh-tting all day with management so they keep you around.

If Andy Grove was still alive all the worthless old dudes that take up valuable headcount on every shift would have been fired a long time ago. Instead they stick around because they’re good at opening their throat for management.

LBT is a part-time CEO. Look at his contract. He's required to work at Intel as needed. So he is allowed to handle his other business interests. Pat's contract was to work full-time at Intel only.

LBT has nothing to say to those who are no longer going to be with Intel, except buh-bye.

You're comparing Lip Boo to Andy Grove? What a clown. It's not channeling anything. This, hey we are going to do layoffs let's grind everyone down for two or three months, is what I am talking about.

There are layoffs that are managed well, with decency. This has not been that layoff. The packages are secret. The timeline has changed. First it was there will be voluntary, then it was no voluntary. It is as if Democrats are running Intel.

Say what you want about Pat, at least he communicated to the employee base and ran the company with transparency. Nobody knows what is going on with LBT and Zinsner.

Thank the retirees and leaders of your teams! They got us here!

LBT is channeling Andy Grove and OP did not expect that.

Andy would not hesitate to fire your a-s.

OP, you are probably right about this being a horrible layoff. This is the start of a course correction. Entire business units no longer deemed relevant will be removed. When these big changes have been announced and implemented we will likely hear more communication on priorities and new direction. May be good news, maybe not.

and yet so many on this board, usually who are not afraid to say or imply that other genuine posters acting in good faith are trolls, adore them.

Apparently lackeys love fetching water