Thread regarding Citrix Systems Inc. layoffs

"You nailed it re: the 2022 bonuses. Look at the email from TG..."

Yup, saw it. No one that I spoke with was surprised when we read it, we were all predicting this. Were you surprised? TK is cheap. Just another way he's SCR*WING US OVER.

@1acq+1kIAqqwR You nailed it re: the 2022 bonuses. Look at the email from TG....

“ What are managers supposed to do? ”
Not sure about anyone else, but I get the feeling my VP has given up and is waiting for a package, and so is not providing feedback up the chain with employee feedback. There is a vast area between not doing anything and going against TK’s ruthless directives that you are missing out on….UNLESS you think that a VP offering feedback will result in the VP getting fired….i guess in today’s environment at CSG that is entirely within the realm of possibility…speak up = get fired. What a he-l ho-e this place is…

What are managers supposed to do? Not follow directives from above? What does that accomplish, other than getting themselves fired for cause with no severance at all? Keep in mind, in the US, if fired for cause, in most states you can't get unemployment, so there isn't even that to fall back on .

"The sad thing is not that the PE guys are bringing a really bad culture. What is really sad is the way some Citrix leaders have behaved towards loyal, hard working employees, in order to save their skin. The layoffs have been an exercise in corporate politics, with some leaders taking the chance to get rid of very talented people, whom they once used for their own benefit, over time became too dangerous, and needed replacing by new useful id--ts. I won't forget."

This is probably one of the biggest disappointments to me. Citrix senior leadership falling lock and step and goose stepping behind TK. Leaders that I once admired I look at now as spineless, lacking in courage... cowardly. You can see in their eyes that they disagree with TKs directives, you can tell that they are shaking their heads behind closed doors, and that their heart isn't into it but they are just mouthing out what is politically correct in this new environment. So disappointing.

The sad thing is not that the PE guys are bringing a really bad culture. What is really sad is the way some Citrix leaders have behaved towards loyal, hard working employees, in order to save their skin. The layoffs have been an exercise in corporate politics, with some leaders taking the chance to get rid of very talented people, whom they once used for their own benefit, over time became too dangerous, and needed replacing by new useful id--ts. I won't forget.

Apparently, there is a certain kind of person who either likes or willfully tolerates this type of work environment. TK created an equally depressing cost-cutting culture after the acquisition of Symantec and CA by Broadcom. Those that stayed lost all hope of progress.

The employees that remain there are retired-in-place and do as little as is humanly possible to earn their paycheck. Today, there is still no plan to improve their situation. So, this is what CSG will become over time. A place where nothing else matters but profit.

Yup, I’m still at CSG. and no, leadership has not communicated much for the future outside of how they are planning layoffs and making life miserable for employees who survived the layoffs. Any word yet on 2022 bonuses? Dollars to donuts (caught your attention now, TK!🐷) leadership will find some way to give us pennies on the dollar for our annual bonuses….watch!

I swear the leadership in this company get turned on by torture. Sadistic lot, all of them.