It’s a rhetorical question, no need to answer. Leadership doesn’t see us as people, and they couldn’t care less about our families, debts, health, or the stress and uncertainty they’re putting us through. Many layoffs have gone underreported, and more are coming despite management’s attempts to convince us otherwise. What a way to treat the people who actually do the work and create the value and profits.
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@k2 Oh no. He worked from home and had a major impact instead of doing it from his office. What a terrible employee. Doesn't he understand that he's not allowed to be productive unless he's in the office? How dare he do work that pushes the industry as a whole forward from home!
@k2 people like you prove that TI doesn't care about productivity, but rather politics and presentation. This is the exact kind of mindset that is currently destroying TI. We need to do what is right and most efficient, now what "looks right" and makes my boss happy temporarily.
Thanks for showing us your dirty t-shirts. I’m sure you stepped up your game after he left? Your group is running better than ever, I bet. No?
Lesson learned: performance from one is not equivalent to performance from the other. No one is irreplaceable, but some are much more than others.
GD worked from home all the time thinking he was untouchable. Dude never showed up in person and was in every meeting via Webex for one excuse or another. Take this word of advice, you’re not untouchable and you have to justify your salary through performance in these down times. Lesson learned?
@jc they've been getting rid of people on high rungs of the tech ladder who get voted into it based on their high performance and substantial contributions to the company and industry. We literally got rid of people who make regular, industry-wide, contributions because they cost too much. Gene Davis, the highest ranking member of the tech ladder at RFAB and someone with 40 years of experience, got laid off in the previous round and his role was given to an NCG with 0 experience a few weeks ago. Someone in HR probably saw "process engineer" and a high salary on a spreadsheet and decided that he was replaceable because and NCG is also a "process engineer." Also an aside, don't understand why we don't differentiate roles in their titles like every other company on earth does.
@gj - experience and skilled yes, but let’s also remember high performer 3 5 or even 10 years ago doesnt translate to now. Many are talking about how they can’t believe certain people were let go that were so great but we see one another through different glasses than the corporation does. Everyone has to take what theyre given and do something with it. The easiest thing to do is complain or be negative and lots of ppl do that these days instead of act. Even so called top people. Find a way to be indispensable otherwise we are all on the proverbial chopping block.
@a8 a lot of companies skim down the top paid sadly. That’s a universal technique. This last round though the particular fab was warned they’d eventually be shutting down. Then there were quite a few in PIPs. Am I saying corporate etc level was not hit, no I know they were but I am addressing directly the fabs
@c4 less than 2% of the recent layoffs were on PIPs. Moat of those folks got laid off a couple months ago. A LOT of the people let go in this most recent round were experienced, skilled, high performers. The companies been replacing people with decades of experience with NCGs and having marginally more experienced NCGs train them over the past year if you haven't noticed.
@c6 Colorado design center? Which one. Longmont? Longmont did not shut down. You mean Cary?
@c4 "a few" were Manchester, Federal Way and the CO design center. Not to mention non factory TMG RIFs in July. We had Ops support people who were busy let go such that their functions were taken over by others who are overwhelmed. One of our support people was sick of it and got a better job elsewhere.
Half not all the people let off were either warned about the fabs closing a long while ago. Then the other half were on PIPS for attendance or not doing their jobs. Now, not saying there was not a few that fell between the cracks but this was the majority. So, when budget said slim down naturally those were the ones targeted (minus a few of course that did not fall in that category).
Private equity!!! Elliot Group is pushing TI to become more lean and ruining the company!!!
@a6 bad take while our competitors all pay higher wages and offer better benefits and work perks. Leadership at TI has been awful lately and have no long-term plans for the company. They're not laying off people based on what's good for the company. They're laying off people based on how much they cost. Doing that over the past year and a half has led to significant problems for the company. We're the only semi company that has lost billions in revenue (including a significant revenue loss the year before the overall market went to sh-t), while also somehow increasing our costs to generate that revenue, which is a huge reason why our bonuses are likely to drop. Not because the employees aren't working hard and don't deserve it, but because leadership has been making poor decisions that have caused long-term negative consequences for the company.
Ok, here is a rhetorical perspective. A purely logical one, not the correct one or a justification,
Just a couple of years ago, employees were abandoning their employers for bigger raises and bigger titles. They were demanding to match whatever they can get at other places. At that time, we again blamed the companies for not being fair or paying competitive salaries. We left in hordes and dumped the companies that hired us fresh from the school and paid us to get trained and develop. There were cases where a fresh undergrad from school was demanding ridiculous six figures starting pay. Employees were squeezing the companies.
Now, that the tide has turned, companies have to do what is good for them. If they do not do that, they could fail and 100% of the employees will be hurt, instead of 5% or 10%. That is just the capitalism in action.
While they have to do what they have to, the difference is in how they do it. Management and HR can be more respectful and accommodating and approachable. That sure is becoming a thing of the past.
Loyalties are not there from either side. At the end, we can not be fully depended on any others, nor can blame others!