A serious question: I'm not excited about joining HPE. Does anyone else have the same feeling?
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@a6 meh 67
Like most jobs, the quality of your experience will depend upon your manager and leadership chain. There are people who hate it here and will probably love HPE. Others will find Juniper better than HPE. The day to day disconnect -- or brilliance -- of senior leadership will have little impact on your day to day. I'm going to think some of the change it stupid and other things will make more sense than here. It isn't our first job and likely won't be our last, so just have no expectations and roll with it until you can make a personally informed assessment.
from the offer letter and my so-far communication with HPE HRs i can tell we are are not valued as much as og hpe workers and disposable at anytime.
@qf No one is asking an HPE slave to bark here.
Join and then collect the juniper bonus payment. In the mean time work hard on your job search because HPE will lay you off as soon as they can. Check the offer letter you received from HPE. What look like vagueries and funny ways of writing are deliberate scripts to allow them to lay you off in the future with no benefits or force you into a job you don’t want - making you quit and then not paying you severance. Stay. Search. Collect $$. Leave. Or stay collect get laid off and start searching too late. Your choice.
HPE is the worst run company in the industry. It's poorly managed by incompetent leadership that couldn't make a good decision about breakfast. You shouldn't be excited. The best part of HPE is nobody cares how hard you work, because nobody works hard there. It's a train wreck. Want to get paid? Best of luck with that. Why do you think Elliot wants to replace the CEO with someone that knows what they're doing? Toxic culture. The Juniper folks left are in for a surprise. You can't imagine how bad HPE is.
You’re not excited because this is a thing that is happening to you instead of something you initiated (like finding a new job). You’ll get over it once you realize the job isn’t really changing all that much.
I know you aren't excited, but this is a wonderful opportunity to slack. Do as little as possible while keeping the paychecks comin. Slack hard - take FMLA for a made up medical conditions. Schedule work travel, cancel it, and then use flights for personal travel. Report to an office? Steal everything - office supplies, toilet paper, valuable stuff off coworkers desks' - whatever it takes! This place su-ks - make it work for you / not you work for them! Get after it!
Hilarious that anyone would be excited to join any corporation. Excitement is not the point. Getting paid and hopefully not being abused are the only goals.
I asked a serious question, and except for the first one who suggested taking the offer over unemployment, which made sense, I don’t understand why the others' responses are so bitter.
Well, do you have F*CK you money? If so, quit
what difference does it make?
@ar Lol at you, You weren’t worried when the C-suite, under RR’s leadership, kicked Juniper as the company to the curb, but worried about my attitude?
lol, you should be grateful. Given your attitude they will kick you to the curb
Nobody cares what excites you.
Better to be with HPE than unemployment line