I am now putting more effort into job hunting. It's hard to keep putting a lot of effort into work when you've lost all motivation.
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Folks should be working hard to sabotage the tech that Broadcom will acquire so we can watch the company sink in a morass of product security and support issues.
Please define 'generous paid transition plan'.
Thanks!
I left early on Friday to play golf and I’m going to probably keep leaving early to play golf.
Fact Check: CA had over 500 Vice Presidents and 100 Senior Vice Presidents. In total Broadcom kept about 25 of them, mainly in Development, a few in Sales and a few in Legal.
CA sold the helicopter in 2010. The company had two private jets and the entire flight team which was around 12 people were cut after a short transition period. The CA planes were used to transport the CA CEO on his many vacations he would take every year. I recall someone saying he was on vacation at least 4 months out of the year and I don’t think they were joking.
If I remember correctly, I believe CA had 36 different Vice President's in the company along with 4 full time Helicopter pilots were also cut.
Surprisingly they also cut our CA Labs which was 75% paid for by the EU, but any patents created went directly to the company.
Our cuts were in Sales and back-office on day 1, most everyone got a generous paid transition plan. All of my former colleagues are working many went to partners and are now our clients.
I'm working hard. That's the only way I do it, and most important, what helps me keep my skills sharp. I recommend you do the same.
I'm very disappointed of this situation but I'm not afraid. I'll find another job - and quick, whenever I get kicked out. The least thing you want is to jump into an interview with a potential employer tomorrow and be rusty, depressed, disengaged, etc. That's easily noticeable by interviewers.
Although I think that HR people will be mostly gone, that is only what, 300 people in HR to let go?
If Broadcom is going to lay off 30% on day one (and this is a LOW estimate), that means about 12k, yes 12 thousand people to be laid off.
So HR is not the only department to be paid off.
The cuts will be broad and across the board but heavier (percentage wise) in HR, Legal, GA, and corporate marketing.
Each BU will be broadly cut as well. Heavier cuts within the BU's will be management, product marketing, product management and then engineering in that order. Percentage wise I suspect, PMM (50%), PLM (30%) and engineering (20%). Management layer will be cut more than 50%.
Thoughts?
The Head People Person has 9 direct reports, those people have about 130 reports and there are still more reports under them, so at least 150 people in HR, doing what?
The fact that most of you can basically stop working and Vmware can run ok is exactly why Hock Tan can layoff 75% of you.
These companies are stuffed with bu-----t positions.
To the hardly working , please keep it up so the rest of us can find a job while you hardly work on your dusty linked-in profile and scratch your a-s.
I still work hard to keep the value of the company up so that the top execs can extract their $millions and have a good life. I care about other people.
I still put my best effort in , but it’s not easy, with knowing, that it’s no future in this company. Whole thing feels creepy
I do, as I respect my job and being paid for my time. I also find my job interesting and I enjoy doing it .I. can understand that some people have boring jobs....and motivation can go down during these times..
Hardly working.
Nope…
I am. To me it's not about whether it helps VMware or not. Being productive makes me feel better. In fact, I've accelerated timelines on a few projects (while scoping down) to try to make sure things are in a good state by November.
Way I see it, if I hand things off to someone because I'm laid off I want to be proud of what I handover. It would be their loss anyway. If I stick around, the extra work will be a good start.