Yet not enough doers at the bottom of the food chain. Can easily chop 2 layers. It will remove the politics among the Indian chief too.
Make some of these people as IC, if they were IC just a few years ago.
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More workers will be gone because of the H1 crisis that will unfold from Jan 20. More chaos on the business side because of tariffs. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada? Now you see what the real chaos of tariffs looks like after the conduits are closed. This time it is for real. No holds barred. The gloves are off. Covid, Ukraine and Gaza was just a trailer.
The cuts were chaotic and messed up. They will need at least a couple of years to stabilize. There are so many useless people still around because of the managers who luckily survived. Many areas shouldn't be cut have been cut. Just mash everything up in one SKU. Just play rough with customers, partners, certification. Everything is a total cluster fu-k. Just unbelievable. One has to wonder whose money it is. The 90 Billion. They pulled out the cash and loaded up Broadcom with debt. If it works out then fine. Otherwise bankruptcy like many great companies of the past. Anyone know Sun Microsystems, Sillicon Graphics, 3COM, Xerox, Dec. Oh well, we tried. Didn't work out. Sorry folks.
Everyone is trying to get rid of the layer below them. Sadly for the bottom of the pyramid they are the ones that are definitely going first. But the whole situation is out of control because the management chain is cozy and don't want to really do any cuts to themselves. They always come up with reasons to cut the people who are doing the work. The system has been set in place for a decade. The workers and trouble makers have been weeded out for a decade. Now all you have is just people who don't do anything but just keep scratching each others back. The worst set of managers/cult in the old VMware was elevated by Hock. Either he doesn't know what he is doing or doesn't care or may be that is the plan? Just mediocre existence and run a dying monopoly.
There have been managers made into ICs and then subsequently let go. RTO was a great excuse to downsize, reorg, and stack more responsibilities on those left but there are far too many managers and not enough workers now. Things are broken and breaking left and right in this place! The workers that are left only have their jobs because they were working in an office when RTO went down or they were the lower paid, lesser qualified staff that didn't question any insane changes. Poor fools will be the ones that turn off the lights when it all tanks.
The funny thing is, during the days when Bugzilla was down, they didn't know what to do and cancelled the meeting.
Most managers are just parasites who talk sh-t all day to sound relevant. Classic street sh----r fake it until you make it.
Ask on the same bugs' status day after day in daily status meetings
My manager has 14 reports. WTF do they do all day?
Probably more than 2. It's crazy how top heavy we are.