During my 20+ years as an IC at Intel, I witnessed several cases where individuals with dubious work quality and behavior fought negative evaluations with filed claims of harassment by their manager. I’m not sure whether the claims were focused on work-related manager treatment, racial/ethnic/gender/religion issues, or both. Whatever they were, in two I observed the claims were false. One thing that did result — they seemed to get the employee immunity during multiple waves of layoffs. Is this still a thing at Intel? If it is, why does this persist? When layoffs do occur Intel keeps these do-nothing complainers (some at grade 7 up to PE), and too many quality individuals get canned and pay the price.
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what i see is a jj who does not send his girl to certain college because of the accent issue with all the foreign TA's complains in meetings with overseas reps calls out their accent in staff meetings as an excuse for not understanding or answering correctly-has been promoted multiple times survived all layoffs is the backup manager.
Another trick is to throw someone in another site under the bus at focal so they can replace them with someone in their site. 2 of my friends recently left because of this trick.
The HR complaint is a we---n at Intel, it is most often filed at the behest of a political manager who wants to take out his competition. The worthless engineer who filed it is then placed under the aegis of the political manager and bumped up. This is how Intel operates, get used to it.