Another one of PJs old college buddies screws up and fails another business venture. 85% of staff is gone and a few are left to attempt a last project that will fail again. How more failures until this guy is given the pink slip. All the people under... — read more
Do not let SM get away with this. Let's all make this layoff blow up in his face by walking off the job
Deliver some payback instead of bending over for him
Walkout will not work because too many are debt slaves
Vast majority are shackled to debt, so they do not have the luxury of standing up for what's right. Unfortunately this means that management's practices will not be exppsed and they can perpetuate these behaviors at the expense of future generations... — read more
What would you say? (to someone that got affected with Right Sizing)
Folks, we are almost there. In about 72 hours people will know, who is out and who will survive. Like it or not, some of those reading this will be affected or some of our known ones will be affected. Please answer two questions: What would you tell... — read more
MST Performance Review Process
Can't speak for other departments but in MST the entire review process is unfair. Each title on each team is directly compared head to head. This makes no sense since there it little overlap between tasks and responsibilities. The engineers with more... — read more
Samsung S6 Drops Qualcomm LTE Modem on AT&T phones?
So I guess some of us were right afterall. Samsung not only dropped the app processor from the S6 completely, but also dropped Qualcomm's LTE modem chip for AT&T S6/S6 edge, using their own 333 modem. Wow. This is a big deal. Because it means Samsung... — read more
SPREAD THE NEWS USE PERSONAL EMAIL WALK OUT MONDAY, CALL THE PRESS, FRIENDS, POLITICIANS, FAMILIES!
Put up a fight!
If you are in Engineering, you are a life long student.
You have to moon light 2 hours a day with coursera courses & work 12 hours a day in QC waiting for API or dabbling with some build. Those coming from foreign countries have their homelands as back up but what do Americans have? A ponzi scheme called... — read more
WALKOUT MONDAY AT 11 am ALL HANDS
Spread the news! Call TV iinLA AND SD let's fight this injustice! WALK OUT EVERYBODY!
Some observasions about past survivers
Syed Choudhury a survivor from Wind River Systems who smooth talked his way to the top will continue to smooth talk his way at Qualcomm & give some ball talk in some wireless conf without knowing anything. He will survive.
Healthcare is going to be $$$$$$$
I was just over at UCSD...they starting d to have weekend and overtime imaging.....I guess with covered California, there are so many patients now, that they have to run a second and third shift over weekends
I am not worried about the layoff. I am not worried about losing my la jolla home. If I run into financial problems I can always count on...
The Bank of My Parents...Heck, they paid for the house anyway.... I am not spoiled I am just well taken care of....
N auditorium AV question: does the PA system use Sennheiser gear? If so does anyone know the channel settings?
I am thinking about adding commentary during the next all hands😀
Qualcomm rewards execs for non performance
Stock is down 20%, profits down 46%, Snakedragon issues, China market shandy. Layoff employees to give back more to investors. Good move Mellonhead and company. DA says it better positions the company. For what? Your next bonus?
Qualcomm tested positive for Jellyfish DNA
Confirmed! They have no back bone and could care less about the working class and families.
Qualcomm used to be a good company. Now the MBAs and Lawyers running the company will make it non player in the years to come.
Most companies with integrity operate with employees in mind. They cut salaries, reduce 401k matching etc but keep the employee employeed. Qualcomm is paving the way to ignore the employees and support the greed of investors and their own bank... — read more
Bernie Sanders campaign to help thwart what Greedy Qualcomm is doing
Sanders campaign is to prevent corporate greed from laying off the employees that make a company and reward the few execs in charge from banking on that move. I wish him luck since that is pretty much what America is today. Government is already in... — read more
Need urgent help
I have decided to sell my house and move to Thailand. Does anyone know when is monsoon season? Can you recommend a good poncho brand? Much appreciated.
Have a great weekend everyone
Couple more days before touchdown
I heard from a very reliable source that they're laying off 100%
To be clear, that's 100% of the entire company.
Markham site shut down
Some of your higer ups eg WY going to SD Markham will be shut down in two phases
Greedy upper mgmt helps themselves while we get screwed
Check out the NASDAQ insider trading page. As of 8/27/15, PJ held about 824K shares. About a month later he has over 1.9 million shares. Upper management continues to reward themselves while the employees and shareholders get the shaft.
My agilent spectrum analyzer is missinf. If you took it to injury yourself so you can claim disability....
Please return my spectrum analyzer, and just use a cheaper oscilloscope instead. The spectrum analyzers are hard to get, whileas we have many oscilloscopes.. Some probably need calibration anyway.
STOCK ADVICE !! Should we sell at 55 or hold it
Please advice based on your experience
No suprises!
Big guys keep shoving stocks upper their asses while people with family get screwed!
My VP also told me another lay off 3-4% to fine tune the company objective will be lissible before end of this year
If company splits then another 20% possible
QC's NARCISSISTIC EGO SUPPLY
I find the following interesting and seen this in my department. NARCISSISTIC EGO SUPPLY requires constant admiration and recognition from others. They will gather a following of needy or co-dependent followers and “sidekicks” who feed their... — read more