Thread regarding VMware layoffs

p.s. despite your downvotes, deep down you know it's true ...

We are downvoting because you are just spouting cr-p you hear off talk radio. And, like people from those shows and certain News programs, every conversation has to be turned political to where the person you don't like caused 150% of the world's problems and the person you liked cured cancer.

if the economy had not been destroyed and the Interest rates going off the charts

FWIW, the US managed this the best of all the world’s major economies. Look it up

This is what most of you voted for so deal with it. Do you think Broadcom would have been the only buyer if the economy had not been destroyed and the Interest rates going off the charts? Or would Dell have even sold VMware for that matter? It's no secret that the interest load on their debt as unmanageable. Hunger games is the only way to survive when you vote for dystopia. But this is what you wanted!! Because YOU voted for it. So enjoy! p.s. despite your downvotes, deep down you know it's true ...

It is hilarious that 1700 in Sofia can badge in and leave - this is your RTO now or more like go to office and return wfh. Literarily VPs are doing it nowadays, parasites, BC will have to enhance the way they monitor RTO because it is not working.

Probably the reason you can only enter thru one door is they are videoing you/facial recognition.

No, that is handled by the an-l probe.

Going in through one door is so that Hock can control your life. Cults exist by laws that are decided upon by the cult leader and enforced through fear of the consequences of disobeying him.

The Pivots should love it. When you start your day you must all clap in unison and when it is lunchtime a gong is banged so you know you can leave. Bonus points if the women sync their menstrual cycles.

Thanks, I like hunger game

Probably the reason you can only enter thru one door is they are videoing you/facial recognition.

to break you out of your VMware shell and into

Nice. He can go F himself. What a disgusting human being and business model. I’ll be looking for another job where there is less ráping of the customers and less browbeating.

Adding him to my Deadpool. I say he has 2 more years left.

After that, he trusts his BUs to do their job.

Hahaha.
He kept the same people who managed vmware into this crisis in command.
What's to trust?
There were not up to the task without adult supervision before, what makes now different?

Don't let that bias your opinion on everything that will happen in the future.

I'm not able to accept this.

A relationship that starts off abusive is an abusive relationship.

It will always be an abusive relationship.

"But, the company vests RSUs every quarter, and they will leave you alone you wehen you are broken and accept their way of doing things", you exclaim.

They cut my pay. They increased my bonus percentage, but may pay out at only 60% of the bonus (do the math, that works out to less bonus). They added non-sensical rules for entirely dubious reasons. There's no core principal to the rules they have imposed, other than cruelty and inducing people to leave.

So, a year from now, you MAY still have a job and THEN it's no so bad because they've found a new dull object that they are abusing and shining up?

It's a load of bunkum and is, hands down, the most abusive company with the most arbitrary productivity sapping rules that I've ever even heard about, much less worked for.

For example:

Everyone must badge in.
Good. vmware had that rule, but did not enforce it.

Everyone must badge in, and only go IN through one door, for security reasons.
(Except janitors, facilities, security and food workers can go through any door).
D-mb rule that does not increase security one bit. It's a rule premised on a lie.

Given the brutal mocking cruelty of what the company has done in the last month, their awful, one-sided, non-negotiable employment agreement, as well as the regressive rules that are setting product development back 30-40 years -- it's hard to believe the people who say everything is fine*.

You are also seeing the acquisition side of things, not the day-to-day business side of it. Hock is super focused when he buys something, or wants to change something. After that, he trusts his BUs to do their job. The last few months su-ked for you but that was just to cut you lean and, to be quite honest, to break you out of your VMware shell and into being a Broadcom employee. There was a great deal of culture shock thrust onto VMware employees. Don't let that bias your opinion on everything that will happen in the future.

Hock Smash!

It’s his power trip. Like he said - he sees the whole thing as a giant video game. Lacking empathy, he is indifferent to anything that stands between him and his profit goals. This time he has cued up an army of people to harm.

What motivates Hock

People like Hock are just built different. Everyone at Broadcom loves him.

VMWARE has a lot of parasites and they are showing their true colors here. Nasty people. Move on already.

What motivates Hock? He is already rich. Whatever extra money he makes off VMWare won’t change anything. He is old. Time is limited. He just set up a situation where literally tens of thousands of people dislike him, ranging from mild distaste to absolute hatred. This from inside VMWare and from the partner side. Does he live with his body guards day and night? He is local. People can find him. What exactly does he get out of this? This is huge, very public, very emotional takeover. Not everyone is that emotionally stable. It’s a weird thing he is doing, for no glory. He isn’t creating a new world or doing anything so productive or wonderful. He must feel powerful but that’s just emotional. It’s weird. He is weird.

The beatings and layoffs will continue until morale improves.

The beatings will continue until they layoffs are complete.
Then there will be personalized beatings.

You have too many negative preconceived issues.

Maybe.

Or maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

I'm afraid I can't quite believe the people who say things are fine.

There were more people saying things are not fine before the purchase. Now, there are the people that are living an experience that confirms the stories told.

Given the brutal mocking cruelty of what the company has done in the last month, their awful, one-sided, non-negotiable employment agreement, as well as the regressive rules that are setting product development back 30-40 years -- it's hard to believe the people who say everything is fine*.

As a hypothetical example of regressive rules, what they've done is akin to purchasing a financial company, and proclaiming "No spreadsheets!" Or a laundromat and telling them to shut off 80% of their machines.

• OTOH, maybe the company grinds the purchased property down to a skeleton crew, and they are fine because they are required until the vampire has su-ked all value from the husk, and all customers are gone. Following that, maybe the skeleton crew is burned to keep the building warm.

The beatings and layoffs will continue until morale improves.

BCOM employees are not in fear of layoff.

Can confirm. Once you're in, you're set. I don't know why you all talk about layoffs every few months. It doesn't operate that way. It has only been a few months; you haven't learned how things are here. You have too many negative preconceived issues.

With Hock ki-ling off partners, it effectively removes a heck of a lot possible jobs for people being laid off. It will be hard for people that waited for severance just to stay in the vmware eco system thinking they can just walk into a partner and keep working on vSphere, Aria and NSX and whatnot. Good luck to who gambled that way.

for as long as you remain at bcom.

Not true at all. During the integration yes so about a year.

BCOM employees are not in fear of layoff.

I don't fear being fired. I'm not going to say I'm the best employee ever, but I have been an asset to every company I've ever worked for. If Hock doesn't recognize that, I'll find another job, and it will be better in some ways, worse in others. But certainly not worried.