I am seeing lots of people becoming literally inactive. Slack responses are slow, people taking PTOs left and right and in general total lack of morale. Not seeing a single person doing more than is required on the job. To top it all, we have a lousy management who has not done anything to boost employee morale and now expecting people to be faithful to them.
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I'm sorry some if you might disagree with me, many will agree with me.
Acquisitions and mergers are just business, purely business
We are still employed by VMware and have a job to do. We should do that the best we can, if not, noone is forcing us to stay, leave, simple.
We have had enough time to accept the situation and reality if what will likely happen. I know I will likely lose my job, but I'm confident I will find another job and will be ok as will you. You still have time to make the necessary provisions, training, certs, updating your CV, networking etc etc .....don't sit on your bu-t feeling sorry for yourself. Do yourself a favor and get ready for the worst.
But today, if you plan to stay, do the best job you can. It's the professional thing to do. Sorry if that upsets some of you
One thing that is really sad is how upper mgmt expects people to stay “loyal” and ignore the writing on the walls. So many still walking around talking about “everything is amazing”. Most of these people making major $ and getting canned will be nothing for them.
words out in the industry about "Hock Effect", hence A players aren't interested in working for a company and culture of his model
Lots of us are still dragging teams into modern business practices. It's a living.
There's plenty of work to do that is meaningful. Customers exist and still need our help implementing what they've purchased.
Executives still need to be told truthful estimates of work in flight in the back office to make day to day saner for employees.
Someone needs to tell people that DevOps doesn't magically get rid of shadow operations support because VMware didn't spend 10 years hiring full stack developers, and the front end peeps they did hire, are overwhelmed during the transition.
Great progress on SaaS is happening in BUs but not as much investment on the dev and deployment tools that make running VMware as a business possible.
The monthly checkin counter is still par before announcement. The workers are still working，the talkers are still talking.
It's called the "Hock Effect"
Some day Harvard Business Review will need to do a paper on the phenomena. Buit'sts basically the downside which no one on the street talks about, to Hock's style of business. Eventually your reputation catches up with you.
It's also like an invading army. They might easily take, and burn down the first few villages in their path (IE - CA, and Symantec), but eventualy word spreads, and the next few villages know what to expect, and act accordingly.
I’ve even told my secretary to stop taking the specs from the customers to the engineers.
I cannot sit there taking money and do eff all.
Why not? C-level management and people who were hired without intereviews have been doing that for years and years?!
I was in the position where my morale was 0 and I ended up doing nothing. Which is why I resigned. I cannot sit there taking money and do eff all.
Sounds great! Which BU? Looking for a transfer!