Thread regarding SAP layoffs

@at+1kdaqpk36 Why don't you change your name and post with your real name instead of spewing hate against Indians. You piece of rotten $#|T

@bf SAP only does things if they’re legally required to. If any EU country leaves, SAP will look at that country as a chopping block. The UK is a perfect example. Used to be protected, but now gutted every layoff. The EU has been protected for a long time while the rest of the countries deal with the brunt of layoffs. Welcome to the party.

I see they found a perfect way to beat the travel freeze and hiring freeze. If managers are based in a different location, they get to travel as much as they want. And if we have the same employees move roles every year or so, they get a higher increase in salaries as well as stock options.

Unfortunately, the Betriebsrat is complicit in this. Employees have been complaining for years that managers should be based in the same location as a majority of their reports. And that their should be fair assessments and interviews before changing roles or appointments in a new role. But remember that the Betriebsrat has approved every single of these appointments. Signavio has managers based in Walldorf where 95% of their reports are based elsewhere. And Signavio has a few employees who “change roles” or “get promoted” every year. This reduces fair compensation and fairness in advancing opportunities. But the Bettiebsrat indirectly works for the executive board so they allow for this.

@bf unfortunately that’s always been the case. The executive board members know that they’re here for only a few more years. So all they wish to do is maximize their personal profits through executive bonuses which are already in tens of millions. And the easiest way to do that is to take money away from incentives and bonuses given to employees.

Dominic Asam keeps saying that employee salaries and incentives are one of the top three costs to the company and so they need to be reduced and replaced by AI. Their current problem, however, is that AI replacements cost more and give off a worse end user experience than employees. But they will do it regardless because AI is seen as a long term strategy so investment in it is justified. And every cent they take away from employees, they can use to pay their own bonuses.

It’s not hard to distract employees to fight against each other while they do this. They’ve already been successful at it since the last few years.

This is bad news for colleagues in Germany and France.
SAP now wants to play cheap: don't want to pay incentives for people to leave so they're putting this PIP in place and worsening working conditions hoping that people with just leave by themselves...

This is total ignorance of Germans and French mentality, people will hang on no matter what especially those over 50 in T3.x and T4.x and will fight in courts for every mistake that SAP will make...

We would be in a much better place as a company if we get rid of all diversity hires like the Indians.

People Leads are not DEI coaches. They have been managing engineers for years without having formal education or expertise related to software engineering. This is impressive and they make for better development managers than engineers can ever be.