Thread regarding VMware layoffs

I'm not leaving, Jim

Broadcom is a mess, but a lot of good stuff can happen in a mess. Accountability is way down during all this chaos. With so many problems with the new system, it's easy for difficult problems to be shuffled around, delayed, or just plain ignored.

I have to admit I'm working less than I ever have, and I'm caring less than I ever have.

Broadcom has a shut up and work mentality, so I have. I usually do my work to the minimum standard. No one notices the times I don't.

So I'm staying. This is easy street. I don't stress like I used to, because it's a shlitzshow, and it doesn't pay to care, and no one else cares either. So I just drift along, getting the paycheck. And on Monday, getting the next rounds of RSUs.

No one cares, and I've reached that point myself. After months of struggle, I've reached that point myself.

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Post ID: @OP+1sYxZ0Hl

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If I was near the end of my career, I would rest and vest, not caring. But, unfortunately, as a type-A personality with a work ethic, this is very depressing for me. As a creative, money does not drive me. I am nowhere close to retirement, and so I must bail. Golden handcuffs be damned.

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Post ID: @etak+1sYxZ0Hl

layoffs are coming... you may want to collect RSU, Hock says no.. it is unfortunate that many will not be able to cash the RSU check. Lets wait and see if this is true but so far , Hock has stuck to the old playbook.

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Post ID: @2lca+1sYxZ0Hl

THIS is the way!

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Post ID: @2njd+1sYxZ0Hl

@1lwi+1sYxZ0Hl

HT seems to be trolling Germany all the way and back again.

You guys couldn’t even opt out by yourself, unlike most others. So far the great and strict German laws do not seem to be on the side of the employees.

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Post ID: @1ahj+1sYxZ0Hl

At least you get RSUs. There are countries like Germany where they offered good severance to wrong people and for sure they took it and left. Those who stay are still under old contracts. No RSUs in sight

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Post ID: @1lwi+1sYxZ0Hl

HT took the Private Equity leader mindset to the extreme. Profit matters, people don't.

That's why as a member of the VMware EUC team I'm not staying with our new KKR owners. The whole mercenary mindset and culture of these organizations make employees miserable. Life's too short to be exposed to toxic companies.

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Post ID: @1myx+1sYxZ0Hl
This place is a graveyard

No, it’s North Korea

All hail Hock. Hock this, hock that.

F Hock.

Waiting for the obit…

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Post ID: @1jjx+1sYxZ0Hl

Confirmed.

What was once an engaging, lively company is now nothing more than a road to RSU vesting.

We simple don't care anymore. My bills are paid, that's it.

Broadcom paid our talented colleagues to go away.

This place is a graveyard.

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Post ID: @1emo+1sYxZ0Hl
They probably just lay people off by whoever is most expensive.

No, it's opposite. They gave huge rsu for staff 2 and above and keep laying off junior engineers.

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Post ID: @1wiy+1sYxZ0Hl

I’m still focusing on the main thing, what have I missed?

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Post ID: @rih+1sYxZ0Hl

“ Does BC even care about…”

Is really, does Hock care about…

And the answer is that he only cares about the line of doom in the spreadsheet. People don’t exist for him. His bodyguards make sure of that.

He is the little rocket man of Silicon Valley.

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Post ID: @neo+1sYxZ0Hl

Does BC even care about how good we are at our jobs? They probably just lay people off by whoever is most expensive.

This is a true statement.

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Post ID: @ogj+1sYxZ0Hl

In HOCK we Trust!

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Post ID: @jpx+1sYxZ0Hl
This is THE way…

Then bend over Mando.

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Post ID: @pdy+1sYxZ0Hl

Rest and vest till the end!

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Post ID: @fjm+1sYxZ0Hl

Clearly they don’t as demonstrated by the talentless managers he keeps around. Yet they get paid millions. It must make Hock feel like he has acquired a real company, when in fact he purchased a paper tiger.

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Post ID: @qlu+1sYxZ0Hl

Does BC even care about how good we are at our jobs? They probably just lay people off by whoever is most expensive.

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Post ID: @uke+1sYxZ0Hl

Well said. Senior mgmt can play their toddler games, pretending to put on adult pants when in fact they are adult diapers. No need to stress or give a sh-t. Think I’ll double click for a few more minutes then go take a nap.

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Post ID: @tjz+1sYxZ0Hl

This is THE way…

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