So far red badge contract HTOMs, engineers, and intake phone staff are being laid off. So sad to not give much warning and out into the saturated market.
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@zk You are an independent contractor from USofA? charging a ton? most 3rd world contract companies like Wipro/Infosys/TCS/Cognizant are all have backup to fall to. you might be taking advantage of contract(RED) badges.
Yes, us red badges are getting laid off. No, the contracting company does NOT give us a severance package and no, the contracting company does NOT move us to another position. Yes, we will be "on the street", so to say. North Carolina has some of the worst unemployment benefits in the country (max pay is $350 per week and it's only for 3 months). Doesn't matter if the contract is longer, we are hired and laid off "at will". Of course over the last couple of years, there was a lot of talk about converting many of us to blue badges, but that was just talk.
@jm sounds like you are talking about yourself as you clearly work for Cisco!
The music will still su-k until to change the conductor.
Cisco an elementary school band. If you want high end music you need to replace everything but no real talented is going to give up a career advancing job to play in an elementary school band.
@az those are independent contractors right? most of the Cisco RED are via 3rd world companies that have umbrella support.
Red, blue, pink, plaid...who cares, tech is just a waiting room to unemployment now.
Contractors know it's a business, or they should. They will always be the first to go before a permanent employee, Whether they should or not is a different story but the theater leaders can't be trusted to make any competent business decisions when it comes to running a team. It's about kingdom building, not managing a p&l. They have proven time and time again that they can't do either. If the conductor su-ks, it doesn't matter how many instruments you change. The music will still su-k until to change the conductor.
@aw You're clueless. No safety umbrella for red, no severance, no PTO, etc. As for the colors, the 'blue' is teal, it was Cisco's color many years ago. Look at all the old switches/routers, same color. Red was to stand out on the badge, made it easier to weed out people crashing FTE events.
@ac Red badges are out of work when laid off, they were hired for whatever job they are doing for Cisco and there is no severance. They are usually lucky to get more than a few days notice.
@av its always that RED go first and then BLUE.. not sure who came up with these colors.. but seems like RED folks have safety umbrella(from their employer) compared to blue loosers endup on stree once loose thier cisco jobs.. you seem to be not underanding..
@ac loose? Mmk. When red badges are done, there’s rarely a backup contract but blue badges get severance. Try to keep up, numbnuts
CFO publicly stated that he wants to grow bottom line faster than top line...only one way that happens. Shouldn't be any surprise if you're paying attention.
You are wrong, they do not belong to any other companies. They are on the contract till the contract is there. Entire country is at will.
contract workers huh.. they can be terminated any time right? that is the flexibility for companies to have contractors right?.. Its sad to see so many RED badge layoff threads, but these guys belong to some other company right, they really do not loose jobs to be on street right. What about full time blue folks? LR'ed straight to street begging..