If you are still being paid, shouldn’t you still be working?
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Yes, the real question is work how hard & how much? Slacking off has always been part of the culture, even if you don't want to admit it.
Easier said than done. Those of us in sales and marketing have essentially come to a standstill. No existing customer, let alone prospective customer, in their right mind wants to do business with VMW in a state of perpetual volatility. Think about it...
"I just feel a responsibility to the commitments I made to my team when I agreed to work for them."
Your loyalty and dedication is admirable.
I'm calling Chase tomorrow and asking if I can pay my mortgage with "responsibility to my commitments" instead of real money.
I'm still being paid and still working. Friday I worked 15 hours. If you are getting a check, get back to work!
Answer is "Yes". Next time try asking your manager if you're not sure. Next question, please?
My manager and manager’s manager didn’t get letters, so I don’t know who my manager is since they are off interviewing.
Half my leadership level has left, and a few more did not get offers. They have been impossible to reach about doing anything meaningful. One even joked he was doing half work and half non-work things the other day. All of us are in the same boat.
It seems like only direct customer project roles and product roles have any work or leadership. I'm not going to waste my time doing stupid meaningless stuff that no leadership wants in the meantime. I've made it known to everyone I can that I'm ready to support whatever is needed, and nothing.
I wish there was more work to be done, it would distract me from this nightmare. Instead, I do what I can do for internal training and improvement, which should benefit VMware, Broadcom, or any other employer whatever the outcome is.
I can’t get my RSUs so I’m not getting paid to work.
“A great deal of these sorts of post might as well crosspost to r/antiwork. You choosing not to work makes my job today harder, makes it less likely you or I will be successful in the future”
I get it. Apologize for my attitude. I recognize there are teams supporting customers. In my role, the organization is cut completely. Well. Kinda. We’ve been asked to do what we can, with caveats communicated to the customer that any offer made is subject to cancelation pending acquisition close. The snowball effect of this clown show is what it is. Everyone’s situation is different, but most importantly, I apologize to you. Please keep up the good work. Most of us really are here to serve our customers
Of course if you're getting paid you should be working. Why is this even a question?
Now, how much you can actually accomplish amidst the chaos, the refusal of people with no self-respect to do the same, and the natural slowdown that occurs in any M&A is a different question. Personally, I'm working on some new stuff (really slow to get answers and possibly pointless if the changes--deal closure or not--eliminate the project), cleaning up some non-critical things that I was saving for a slow period, and generally trying to make whatever progress can be made. There's eight hours a day of work if I type slowly :-)
Ratio!
My thought is - if you are still getting paid and don’t have a letter, I’m not surprised that you’re not working. But, STFU about how you’re being treated.
Ooooo. We’re quivering as the line manager wields his little stick. Do us a favor? Sequester yourself in the nearest Broadcom office. Just go away
No need to quiver.
A great deal of these sorts of post might as well crosspost to r/antiwork. You choosing not to work makes my job today harder, makes it less likely you or I will be successful in the future, and makes me less likely to want to work with you in the future (I'm not a manager, line or otherwise). If you don't care I'm not putting any more energy into it than slightly unhappy anonymous posts on theylayoff. No doubt you'll next accuse me of kissing the boots of our overlords. I just feel a responsibility to the commitments I made to my team when I agreed to work for them.
I clicked the mouse today. Sometimes I double click.
I'd work if only I still had some customers who wanted to work with me, but this fiasco has scared them all of to go and work with the competition.
They implored us to take care of ourselves and family. Working assembling a few comrades for a start up to compete against them. They are paying as Hock Tan pulls another Qualcomm. I will not let some Elderly senior citizen sc--w my family. The guy bit off more than he can chew. No way this deal works out or it would have.
Seems OP lost the popularity contest
If you didn’t receive an offer and aren’t “part of the companies future” what are you working towards?
In addition, by not receiving a letter it's been communicated that your work is NOT important to the company.
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Yes, working very hard on my job search. Thank you for the genuine concern.
For those of you choosing not to work, I hope you're planning on finding a new job no matter what. If the deal fails or by some other miracle Broadcom chooses to send you an offer, it doesn't really bode well for you if your management and senior technical leadership notice you chose to do nothing for weeks/months. I'm willing to give some grace because of stress, but I absolutely know who checked out and who chose to keep working (despite some not getting letters). That makes future decisions easier.
If you didn’t receive an offer and aren’t “part of the companies future” what are you working towards?
I'm still working. Bare minimum to be sure, but I put in a justifiable 8 hours.
You can pick up the extra work for us, thanks again.
I am, as much as I can. But if little work is coming in, I can‘t just make it up!
If you are still being paid, shouldn’t you still be working?
All the C suite are being paid too, you saying they have been working all along? Not talking about since the acquisition has been announced, but talking about forever.
But wasn’t I fired? I’m too confused to work. All these buttons and some of them are hot. Better to just let the laptop sit there and maybe AI will figure it out.
I want to work and so do my teammates but manager doesn’t want us to and even took away software licenses. The only person in the team who received a full time was the manager. Looks like he wants to do all the work himself
Answer is "Yes". Next time try asking your manager if you're not sure. Next question, please?
Rather than posting on an internet forum, shouldn’t you?