No one in my team has the motivation to do anything more than the bare minimum, which is understandable. Looking for a new job has become the main full time job for everyone. Does anyone now work more than the necessary minimum? I doubt it.
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there will be wiggle room for those folks to fight to keep certain people
Hahahaha! The VPs will fight for us! Yea, after they are done remodeling their houses.
Don’t make me laugh so hard, it hurts! Really, please. Ouch
I heard they track your mobile phone to make sure you are in the office
Maybe I am speaking uninformed, but no matter how much a micromanager the CEO is, there is no way he will personally oversee layoffs for thousands of people. The work will get delegated to your current hierarchy, and I’m willing to bet that there will be wiggle room for those folks to fight to keep certain people (if the BU is kept), regardless of whether or not your can make it to headquarters. They could mandate a “if you’re within 100 miles commute you’re expected to come in” though. There again — does a CEO of a company the size of Broadcom waste time checking to see if Timmy or Susie clocked in on site every day this week? If so he is not focusing on important matters or he is god.
@1ppm+1im6SMGi Any idea what BC going to do with people move out of the HQ area? I moved out couple hours out of the HQ with cheaper rental area and signed lease. Perhaps. negotiate for a volunteering severance package if BC required to be onsite?
Act 3
And the load of RSUs given out in August - useless. Who's going to be around for the vesting schedule? What a joke!
The lying. That is what got me.
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How many lies have we been fed? Kit kat. Rags. Batsy. Lost count.
"Most of the gripes here are from people who know they are likely in the chopping block, and most leaving don’t have much to lose, or are plain freaking out. All of this is expected… "
Its more simply then that. The situation here is a total lose-lose situation.
A: You are cut. BC's future profit models are not possible without massive cuts. BC has been at this for a long time and VMW will be no different. Acquire, cut heavily, save only the most moneymaking bits, move on to acquiring another company
B: You are not cut. And then you will be working for a company that made people come into the office even during the height of a global pandemic. A company notorious for non-stop quarterly layoffs and impossible workloads.
So that leaves one option. Get another job. To many that is not appetizing, having spent years working at a company that prided itself on being nice to the employees only to be bought by a company that is the total opposite.
That is the ONLY option really.
Yea I did literally zero. Not even after the announcement per-se. But after it was clear that we were lied to. Like Kit saying on slack it’s just a rumour and literally 24hrs later the announcement. Couldn’t live with myself doing nothing and get paid for it which is why I left. Had zero motivation. In fact, sometimes I just stayed in bed and thought ‘fu-k it’. Wasn’t a good situation. And it wasn’t about being acquired. At the end VMware was just a job and I been through several acquisitions so that part wasn’t new. The lying. That is what got me.
My manager dumps all of the “let’s look busy activity” on me. He makes stuff up that is really unimportant. Then he disappears for the day.
Yeh, same on my team. Fairly same sentiment from me as well. I have some things to do here, and some vesting I’d like to have happen in the next year. Feels like either hundreds or thousands of people have their head in the sand or they are working toward a plausible moderately beneficial outcome. That many smart people can’t be that stupid/naive. If I end up getting cut early on, so be it — I’ll find something else and move on then.
That being said, yes execs get the big payout and yes some groups will for sure be decimated. Most of the gripes here are from people who know they are likely in the chopping block, and most leaving don’t have much to lose, or are plain freaking out. All of this is expected…
Some teams I'm on are more focused. Like everyone, we've lost some motivation as well. But it's not that we're doing the bare minimum. We've dropped our wide attention and instead are focusing on some core areas that we think adds most value/will survive and save our butts. So there, we are working like crazy. Personally, I love VMware and it's unfortunate what's happening to us a company. But there will be a smaller VMware that will continue into the future. I hope I'm a part of it. I'm too old now to hustle and find a new start.
What is going on in Tanzu? and why is tanzu being brought up alot now here