I love that all the "quiet quitters" who are still here - and plenty of them are not, which is even better - now have to pull their own weight once again instead of letting the rest of us do their jobs. What might have worked at VMware is definitely not going to work at Broadcom, which focuses on productivity over anything else. If you're lazy, you're gone. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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Useless people still crying
As Hock would say - pretty much about everything - if you don't like it you can leave.
I bet the whinny folks that can no longer take advantage of VMware leave policies will be forced to work or kicked out 😂
You mean they fake to have kids, Or actually had kids, just to take paternity leave?
I think the post was more about misuse of the paternity leave policy. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 kids but if you are manipulating the company policy and not contributing to the team and the manager supports such behavior, it can cause various morale issues.
There are managers that take advantage of this, in doing so have been delegating their work to their subordinates then turn around and take credit for their work. This is their ever day practice. Taking time off pretty much always but not letting subordinates aware, pretending they are working. Now acting as if they are in the know and covering up and working to micro manage.
Im out! Seen this play out before.
A small team where 2 of them took advantage of the generous paternity policy by breeding like rats. Every year new baby
LOL.
This real funny.
You mean they fake to have kids,
Or actually had kids, just to take paternity leave?
Either ways, too funny.
'I have to work while you continue to spend your time doing whatever it takes to get your next child and more time off from work. Bye!'
As Hock would say - pretty much about everything - if you don't like it you can leave. You are a spreadsheet entry.
Every year new baby and they took 18 weeks by stretching it into 52 weeks. They’ll work 2-3 hours and claim to have worked that day without hitting the 18 weeks leave.
This is what folks mean by saying VMware had too many fluffy benefits/culture -
official and in this case unofficial.
Take the 18 weeks as 18 weeks, don’t stretch it into a fake 10% of full time effort job year after year.
“Blame the manager” - duh , but what to do about it that would actually change the situation? Complaints to HR are sent to /dev/null after they hug you and say you need to empathize with child birth.
You seem very infatuated with this topic.
Haha. You are now getting funny. Yes, the one thing you are right is about having cr-ppy manager that allows some people to take time off 52 weeks a year, year after year while others can’t.
I have to work while you continue to spend your time doing whatever it takes to get your next child and more time off from work. Bye!
You seem very infatuated with this topic. It obviously works and is deployed across the world at many companies. A short-term impact helps long-term retention and prevents the loss of institutional knowledge. If the work you're doing is so critical that it cannot handle this impact, then this is a management issue. This is Team Building 101 stuff.
We hire above capacity to accommodate PTO and leave.
Thank you for confirming that you were one of those teams misusing VMware policies and being a drag on the revenue
NO business in the world will be successful if it allowed their employees to take 52 weeks paternity leave per year for 4 years at a stretch.
Your argument proves what I’m saying.
If someone being on leave impacted you that much, then your manager and team structure are to blame. We hire above capacity to accommodate PTO and leave. I've sat down with many people 1:1 who feel like you have, where you're taking on too much of someone else's work. We realize that it's minor (less than an hour per week) but they hyper-focus on it. We make a plan and schedule. Shift around duties, use it as an opportunity for skill growth, and whatever is left over comes to the manager.
Don't blame someone for living their lives. Blame the system that makes it impact you.
Strong incel vibes right there.
Maybe you are one of those that misused the paternity policy to assume others were childless or not capable of it.
The point wasn’t about breeding but how the 18 weeks was allowed to be stretched to 52 weeks and the rest of the team bearing those dead weights.
generous paternity policy by breeding like rats
Strong incel vibes right there.
Because it completely makes sense for someone to take on a life-long obligation just to take a few months off work.
Good old VMware times are over, no more baby shower gifts, parties, wellbeing programs etc. From now on you’ll need to work hard!
'Broadcom is in the business of making money.'
Maybe so, but not for you. Oh wait, are you referring to the crumbs they call RSUs?
Still here, still slacking, still wfh. Milking the Hock cow.
My numbers still look good. Pro at quite quitting
I’m loving it too. Too bad EUC will be leaving the BC fam. HT is a great leader and we are making huge progress. I just hope they fired 90%+ of the leadership before we are sold off. They bring nothing good to the table.
now have to pull their own weight once again instead of letting the rest of us do their jobs
I still see dead people doing nothing. Maybe it is because I work in the Zoo.
Hock, help us!
'Broadcom is in the business of making money. '
Don't fool yourself, your performance is irrelevant if your product space does not hold up to Hok's standards. You will be out of the door sooner than you think.
which focuses on productivity over anything else.
Financial productivity. Real productivity is a non-issue.
See your inbox for the daily revelation of new rules that show they don't respect you, that will lower your productivity.
Your comment about letting others carry your weight reminds me of my VMware teammates. A small team where 2 of them took advantage of the generous paternity policy by breeding like rats. Every year new baby and they took 18 weeks by stretching it into 52 weeks. They’ll work 2-3 hours and claim to have worked that day without hitting the 18 weeks leave. Before that was exhausted the news of their next baby and baby shower gift collection came. Our director was another breeder and was close with these two lazies fit for only breeding.
Out of the entire team, the director and the 2 breeders got the fte offer. Rest of the team that shouldered the work of the breeders end up with the layoff letter. One is expecting the 4th child and angry that paternity leave at BC no good