I am so sick of this company. I hope we go down in a glorious ball of fire! Leadership sucks! HR sucks, Engineers suck, Marketing sucks sales suck...Let's face facts every department and leader sucks! Kioxia also sucks!
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The history you mentioned does not justify bigotry. If WD leaders suggested there were too many women or minorities at WD, and offered them exit packages you would likely be outraged. When WD leaders say there are too many older employees and offered older employees exit packages you defend them.
Why not just treat every equally in 2023?
Tap on the shoulder promotions have long been a controversial practice, and their use was not necessarily curtailed. In a firmware function, a senior director departed and was replaced by a favorite of leadership seemingly without a job posting or fair consideration of equally qualified candidates. Despite whispers of discontent, HR allowed the promotion to proceed, perhaps due to a culture of avoiding criticism of leadership.
Sucks that WDC leaders talk openly the need to reduce specific groups.
Sucks that you think the 2019 gender bias lawsuit may be involved in 2023 layoffs. Sucks that you may be right.
@hfzz+1lizxWYq Not suggesting that, any discrimination is a problem.
Let's not forget about that charming sales executive who openly stated that older employees need to hit the road and still has a job. Older employees are being targeted within a legal framework. The just completed voluntarily retirement shrank the pool of older employees protected under The Age Discriminated Act, opening a path for job older employee job eliminations in April or May.
Are you suggesting discrimination against wimen in 2021, justifies targetting older employees in 2023? Bothare equally wrong.
In January 2021, Western Digital settled a class-action lawsuit filed in May 2019 for $7.75 million filed by 1,863 female employees. The lawsuit cited examples of s-x discrimination, including significant salary differences between men and women in similar roles, tap-on-the-shoulder” promotion processes where open positions were not posted but filled at the discretion of management, promotions of less-qualified men over better-qualified women, and a lack of female representation in senior leadership positions.
Fitch Affirms Western Digital's Ratings at 'BBB-'; Revises Outlook to Negative
laying off the wrong people bc the "we suck" is a failed reinvestment & growth strategy; layoff a few executives and VPs who made those decisions, not just employees
So true. Great leaders in Legal, HR, Operations, Security and other departments are all gone and replaced with either lame, follow the leader Cisco drones or those that are left in department leadership are incompetent. WD is a joke.
Yeah I got to enter my pronouns and se-ual identity, because we know how important diversity of pronouns are to saving the industry
That’s the spirit!
The good news is we have great D&I efforts underway including scholarships that white people cant participate in. F U WDC!