Thread regarding CA Technologies (CA Inc.) layoffs

Life at CA was too easy

I’m in support. I really wasn’t challenged technically ( just a lot of b---s--- busy work ). I know once I go somewhere else, there is no cruise control. I will actually have to know my sh--. I’m looking forward to it.

I always ran circles around mgmt because they had no idea what I was talking about.

I taught myself to code and dba and a lot of other stuff over the years. But my job didn’t push me to learn anything technical, except for sh--ty product difference training. Mgmt always had us focus on some horseshit pet project from some clueless director or manager .. someone’s “bright idea”. Managers should be highly technical in support. There are way too many useless people in support that will be in hot water trying to perform at a new job.

Original poster is @VKuapDG-1tue.

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Comment! It's anonymous!

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@VNp8ZqJ-1qin, keep telling yourself that. This was before Bikeboy arrived and I was getting a 8-10% increase year on top of a already above market salary, with a 1000 or more shares of stock. That will help tolerate a lot. I would never put up with it now and I was fortunate to move to another team. We still work hard, but it is not the grind that my old group was. I think Bikeboy did so much to destroy moral. I remember he said one time at a town hall that he wanted developers to be ranked according to sales of their product. As if code monkeys are the primary driver of sales. We wouldn't get an bonus for sales increasing, but swift punishment if sales lagged. Way to go Mike, you really deserve that 50 million your about to get, showing such leadership and business acumen.

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I work in support. When i started we were very very busy. Overwhelmed with cases.

Unfortunately the product quality has gotten worse and worse and we lost a lot of customers as a result... so now there's nothing to do.

by Anonymous
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Hey SGT scumbag is that what management tells you when youre gargling the D?

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@VNp8ZqJ-1xmj

Then you are a id--t if you let your job take you to the brink of a nervous breakdown, especially for CA. Did you not notice the rest of the company barely doing their contracted hours, going home to their families and probably still earning more then you? What exactly was so important in CA that made you stay so long everyday? Nothing else to do perhaps?

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When I see these posts I wonder about what departments or jobs these people have. I've worked at CA over 20 years and for the most part it has been brutal. I work in R&D and when we switched to Agile it actually got worse. Instead of a year long dev cycle with maybe 3-6 months of chaos, it turned in to 2-4 sprints of constant chaos. It got so bad a few years ago I almost had a nervous break down. Working 90-100 a week, 6-7 day a week with no end in sight. PMs and management took Agile to mean endless crunch time,while endless layoffs made teams smaller and smaller. I'm not sure if Broadcom could possibly be worse.

by Anonymous
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Sgt slaughter here...

You like nuts....

How about deez ...

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1lmg+VNp8ZqJ

SGT slaughter back at it...neck-deep in it

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Post ID: @wgy+VNp8ZqJ

Sounds like Sgt slaughter, we all know he never worked, just useless posts on yammer.

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#admin This is blatant spam, please remove it.

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Post ID: @ggt+VNp8ZqJ

What's the point of reposting someone else's post? Why do this?

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