A new week/month/EOQ begins; one like no other before.
Just wondering how Folks are feeling?
Where is motivation going into D-october?
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I was laid off - I find the job market is MUCH better than it was just a few months ago and I am no longer having nightmares and headaches. You will be better off, believe me! Living through the drama at Broadcom is just not worth it and I am glad I was laid off now, although I wasn't at the time.
Don’t do anything until I get an offer. Act busy say the right things and think in your head F off
Heading off to end of October, the company is getting into the halloween spirit, ghosting employees before the actual day, handing pink slips instead of trick or treat
My plan remains the same:
Bare minimum Mondays
Take it easy Tuesdays.
Lets not work to hard Wednesdays.
No-thinky Thursdays.
Finally free Fridays
Thank you to those that have shared there personal situations.
This thread seems a little more human than others I have read.
It is strange that people can be so hurtful, in a time that will impact so many colleagues and their families.
I miss VMware already X
Thank you! My situation is quite similar to yours - female, breadwinner, paying off household debt, modest savings. I have the nightmares too, the habits you mention, the whole package really.
The "very tired, confused, lonely and anxious cog in a wheel that's turning around me and I have no control over it" hits home way too close as well.
Thank you for sharing that! The future is unknown and scary, but it is posts like yours that help me keep going.
It's been an honor to be a part of this company, of my team. Whatever happens in the next weeks won't eradicate this.
All the love and all the power to you! To all of us! Whatever doesn't ki-l us, makes us... stranger ;)
I'll be 70 next August and still feel I want to work but am slowly warming up to the fact that I may just retire. I've been on a few interviews but no longer feel my heart is in it. C'mon Broadcom - bring it on.
It's interesting to me that I spent the last 16 months worrying and wondering "when will I know ". Now that I know when I'm going to know, I don't want to know anymore.. Does that make sense to anyone?
Every time I get an email notification I nearly jump out of my skin and almost forget how to use a mobile device; I'm so panicked to read my email.
I've been having nightmares (oddly not related to work) about other aspects of my life falling apart. I know I'm not being rational. I know that it's business and not personal. But my anxiety doesn't care about logic, and I keep running through things in my head.
Yes, I've had more than a year to prepare. But in that year I've been focused on paying down family household debt (I'm the breadwinner in my marriage and I'm female. Just mentioning that so that if there are other females dealing with anxiety you know you're not alone, or alone on this site when you see posts). So our savings are not where they should be.
I got an RSU grant that, if I'm terminated before March, I get 25% of. I am grateful for that, and that my director fought for me to have these RSUs.
I have unhealthy habits of first googling "vmware broadcom" when I have my morning coffee, which then moves on to coming to this site to see if there are any new revelations. Then it's on to Tradingview to look at the stock prices of AVGO and VMW. I don't know why I do that. But it's part of my morning now and a hard habit to break.
I'm 10 years from retirement. That may seem like a long ways away, but when you think about having an established career over the last 20 some odd years, and where you might go after all this, I don't have a lot of confidence. But that's not because I'm not good at my job or that I don't produce results, because I do. And I treat absolutely everyone I work with, with respect and honesty because I believe in building trust in teams. I'm not a director. I'm not a people manager.
I'm a very tired, confused, lonely and anxious cog in a wheel that's turning around me and I have no control over it. All I can do is work with integrity, be the best version of myself I can be, and support those around me that are feeling the same way.
Please be kind in these times and always remember that as bad as you think you have it, there is always some one else out there dealing with something much, much worse.
I am hoping to get the severance and retire this year. I probably won't be so lucky because I'm an engineer on vSphere with a lot of years experience. I'll stick around long enough to see what happens and then quit, I guess. This feels like a soap-opera I've watched for over a year and now we're finally going to see an end to the long, drawn-out cliffhanger.
Coasting, in limbo. Essentially, since the all-hands call(s), been treating it as time off, and doing minimal, reactive things, job-wise, since there is absolutely no point in doing anything that has impacts or extends past mid-Oct. Not job searching, either…as I just don’t have the juice for that right now. Waiting to learn my fate, and will go from there.
I’m fortunate, in that I’m in my late-50’s, with grown kids, and have had retirement on my mind, so this may simply hasten that. I really feel for those who are younger, with new and/or growing families, and don’t have a choice. I’d be coming out of my skin if I were in that situation.
There’s a lot of anger and bitterness on here…but I’m not either. It’s pure business, which I learned a long time ago. No loyalty. Companies do what they feel they need to do, and you must do the same. Don’t take it personally, because it’s not. Good luck to all.
Being very depressed. I built up a great, thriving team and I shudder to think it will be axed. I just want this nightmare to be over.
Getting on with my job.
I made the choice 16 months ago to stick around and see what happens.
If I get an offer I'll be around to help with changes and new successes, if I get laid off I'll take my severance and think about what I want to do for my next role.
What is happening to VMware is what America voted for - expect a lot more of it - the country is failing. Soon millions of people will be struggling to survive. You get what you vote for!
All these years at VMWare and one email to tell me what an anonymous person has decided. No respect for employees.
Quite frankly, I am scared.
I have never been laid off before.
To make things harder, we have a new baby.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to tell us in an all hands that we will be finding out our fate via e-mail in 4-6 weeks needs their head examined. Ah, well.
I'm a top sales performer by the numbers, but i still very much fear hock's axe.
I've been applying like a madman and have found very little traction. i have money squirreled away because i could easily see this unemployment lasting for months as hiring further slows around thanksgiving/Christmas. Will i be still unemployed in March? April? Time will tell.
my biggest fear is having to go somewhere bad with a massive paycut after VMware just to have health insurance; I've wanted to work here since i was a kid, and after only a few years here now it may come to an end. I've worked at several F500 companies, and certainly hope to stay in that space, and avoid start-up land. but, I'll go if I must.
Best of luck to all of you. To anyone reading this post, i hope we all find peace and jobs quickly - be it with Broadcom or somewhere else.
I reached the acceptance part of the 5 stages of grief. At least each of us would know soon. I'm the breadwinner with a mortgage and way too modest savings. The prospect of being unemployed with no good medical around the "dead" season for hiring around Christmas, in a local market that has shrunken is not kind to my depression. Not to mention the local inflation that is going though the roof plus the emergency repairs at home I need to take care of. I discussed upping my antidepressants with my shrink last week. It's nothing personal, it's business, I know. It s*cks. This too shall pass.
I know I will be laid off in round 1. I have never been laid off in last 20 yrs in big tech companies. But strangely, I actually look forward to being laid off. So that I can hit the RESET button. In last 4 yrs multiple org changes and 4 different bosses led to utter waste of my time and skills changing projects as leaders changed. There was no chance of building any type of carrier here. Hopefully the next gig will have better opportunities.
Just open a VODKA like me
Two more weeks of feeling uneasy and nervous. Nothing to be done about it. And I'm still expected to get work done this week.
Soon we can watch VMware get dismantled and the thousands of people who have screwed up the once great company sent packing! It is time.
It will be Pre-Fall clean up at VMware for sure with all useless management layers ( Directors/ Senior Directors/ VPs). Fire them all and let them retire. They are only good in sending Thank you emails.
"Motivation is higher than ever as is my internal warmth in knowing useless id--ts at VMware will finally be fired."
"Fired"??? "ID--TS"???
TROLL???
If not and a current VMware Employee, then shame on YOU!!!!!!
"Motivation is higher than ever as is my internal warmth in knowing useless id--ts at VMware will finally be fired."
Welcome to B!, YOU will thrive ;)
Motivation is higher than ever as is my internal warmth in knowing useless id--ts at VMware will finally be fired.
I hope mt severance could come faster