Our teams had been working tirelessly on the Juniper integration efforts. We had hired new employees and contractors for this effort and were ready to start work full steam next week when the deal closed. Given that the court process might take a long time, what now? Can the integration work with Juniper still continue in the interim or everything has to be put on hold until the courts decide? If it's the latter, we will have a ton of folks literally doing nothing. Very very frustrating.
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Look on the bright side: we get to keep our unlimited PT which they only granted us because Juniper has it.
Any further engagement with Juniper will be in direct violation of the law. Why don't people understand this?
Preliminarily and permanently enjoin and restrain Defendants and all persons
acting on their behalf from consummating HPE’s acquisition of Juniper or from
entering into or carrying out any other contract, agreement, plan, or
understanding, the effect of which would be to combine HPE and Juniper in the
United States.
Yes. From next week.
Are the integration meetings still continuing?
Juniper had already people leaving last year plus they laid off several this month and most awaiting to leave in the upcoming months post the bonus based on certain talks with teams looking to jump ship but waiting it out
Sure hope we keep the Juniper IT people. It can't get any worse than HPE IT.
Seems like a very short-sighted and stupid approach.
IT. We had hired a lot of folks for this integration who now have very little to do as this is now on hold as it works it's way through courts. Most likely the intention for hiring upfront was that we could control the narrative and maybe onboard less of the Juniper people, let them go shortly after transitioning.
Which group is this?
What a colossal fu-kup by Neri & the leadership. Imbeciles.
We were forced by our management to front load the process & were given very aggressive timelines that didn't make much sense. There was just too much pressure from leadership. They were expecting the deal to close end of Jan and then cutting a significant portion of the incoming J people. Now it's we who are under tremendous stress wondering what to do as the messaging from management has been anything but clear.
Why would you hire new employees and contractors just for integration planning while you let go your valuable engineers?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1387541/dl
Read page 20. Per that there should be no agreement, planning or other contract between both the companies until the court finally decides the outcome of the litigation. You are looking at Nov/Dec. This means all integration work needs to stop immediately & all meetings regarding that should be canceled.
More than likely HPE will lose this case. Sh---y situation.
That was a mistake, easily avoided.