Thread regarding VMware layoffs

I’ve switched to a write it down culture.

I went into the office.

Found a conference room.

Wrote on the whiteboard 100 times.

“I will focus on the main thing”

So much better now.

Will they start bus/shuttles from east bay ?

whenever theyre not traveling.

Does that include traveling to kid’s soccer games?

I’d like to see their badge swipe reports!

from what Ive heard, the C-levels are in the office whenever theyre not traveling.

does that make me want to come in? uh no lol

So will we see the C-suite leading by example and showing up in the office 5 days a week from 9-5?

I have a feeling the answer to that question is a big NO, cause hey, they make the rules but don’t have to follow them.

It’s good to be the king…

Magoo… waiting for a $50M paycheck and still can’t form a coherent strategy or sentence.

Simply sad how our world works.

That said, why are people even concerned about what the says?

Paper tiger is too generous a description for Magoo. Just another confused millionaire, like Mr. Magoo. There really isn’t a better way to describe him.

All this will be imploded by end of year, VMware will be a footnote in history and Hock Tan filling in the dirt in the burial plot.

The problem with documentation is that it will clearly show who is creating value and they will be unable to peddle their politics driven growth culture.

Don't worry I am sure "Thor" who we hired from Deloitte to do ninja warrior or whatever else he does will help set Magoo straight.

Hock will cut the Vegas boondoggles. Enjoy one last hurrah.

Here is an idea… let’s have an annual event in Vegas where we get everyone together so we can all do some tram building, bond, learn about each others products and have some fun…

Pre-pandemic, I would sit in a conference room in Palo Alto, start my weekly meeting, and guess how many would join in that same conference room as opposed to calling in from their desks across campus?
When F2F collaboration works, then do it. The rest of us seem to work just fine over Zoom.

A senior leadership team that sends company-wide, templated email blasts every other Friday afternoon is now telling us that we are not a "write everything down and publish" culture. Now that's rich.

Oh, and yes, the company's documentation is historically right on par with the QA testing; make of that what you will.

Neither approach is entirely right or wrong. Those who architect, design, engineer, test, and support our products almost certainly are more effective with "some" amount of face-to-face collaboration. Those who are in a customer-facing individual contributor role (such as AE, SE, TAM, etc) don't see as much of a difference from coming into the office; and in fact, every day spent in the office is a day away from customers.

I definitely see both sides of it. It's nice when geographic location doesn't dictate who you can hire in the talent pool. Also when you sit in alot of Zoom meetings, does it matter where you are logging in from? However, I will say that we did have an onsite meeting for three days with about 40 engineers/managers and we got a metric ton of work done and I made some great relationships just based on personal time spent together. I think the solution is mutch like VMW is suggesting...get folks together once per quarter regardless of distance, and if you have folks that work in the same location and dont mind coming in once or twice a week have them do that...but dont have people come to the office to spend all day on Zoom.

Did he write the email why sitting in the Palo Alto office?

Magoo, you’ve done it again!

The email was so heavy handed but confusing because they’re the ones who decided to continue to hire remote employees and also let everyone move wherever the f they wanted. Most of my team is scattered around the country, so what would going into an office do for anyone? Too many people have moved far far away for this pressure to really work, especially for those who have spouses and families and can’t up and move. Maybe they’ll lay everyone off but it’s hard enough to get things done without cutting out half the company.