We should all have been with cams on so we can collectively raise a sign "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED" during the dance on stage
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This one was awful. I get the acquisition is a business decision, but to "celebrate" on stage while colleagues have been focusing on contingency plans for months should they not be retained while managing the business was incredibly poor taste. Especially from the leaders that emphasize the importance of our EPIC2 values. There are a million ways to change manage this acquisition effectively and with a soft landing for all impacted, yet...
re: More like “our leaders dance while we all wonder if we have a job and health insurance”
The VMware severance policy will pay 3 months of cobra, but will not automatically enroll employees into Cobra. That means if you're given a 2 or 4 month severance plus 1 week for every year of service, Cobra will be an option after your notice period expires (2mo) and you'll have to know to register for it, and that VMware will fund the first 3 months of it. I'm sure they'll advise impacted employees of that process.
For the health insurance portion, you'll have cobra for part of it, fwiw.
A sign with a middle finger will do nicely
It's a Gladiator reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbBiXPVKuTA us towards them, asking.
And may the odds be ever in your favor in the upcoming Squid games. I can go on with the references all day long.
More like “our leaders dance while we all wonder if we have a job and health insurance”