The problem is that management does not care. Meg does not care. It's all about the cost savings for the share holders. HP is out of date, out of touch and with the brain drain caused by their actions they will always be behind the eight ball within the industry. Many of management do not even have a clue what their employees are working on. Management is old, their thinking is old, their policies are old and they all lack the courage to explain to Meg that her actions will end up crippling the company. They cannot attract younger, smarter people with their 1950's style of management. If HP was sincere in cost cutting they would start with the top heavy management who's only concern is the next position they are inline for. HP is a house of cards and with current plans and actions it's just a matter of time before it comes crashing down.
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Making some of the worst leadership decisions i've seen in years.... Rather than getting rid of middle management lets fire our services employees, and rehire them back as contractors to make our books look better... Idiotic really... Rather than fix the problem lets just fire all of our workers and hope they take this job offer from CIBER... IF they don't, oh well. Never mind about moral... Let's see, fire an employee of say 20 or 30 years, but rather than giving you your severance package were going to get some OTHER company to hire you at a cheaper wage, with no vacation, and you can do the same job at HP again.... and that's going to work well for you HP? that's going to make employees want to work well? REALLY? WTF were you thinking.... Good luck with that HP.... IDIOTS.
This is absolutely wholeheartedly the truth. I've seen just HOW much older in thinking the management is. They are all each other's buddies and keeping each other employed until they get their own packages. Absolutely no concern for customer requirements, just focus on what the management agenda is.
Initially I had high faith in Meg, but watching her be surrounded by incompetent and old-school yes-men with only camaraderie down to about 4-5 layers below her, is a sure-fire way to drive the company to the ground.
Everyone is paying you lip-service Meg, and you are destroying HP as a result. Ask each of your management teams to get grassroots comments on what work they ( the managers ) have ACTUALLY done with the CUSTOMERS in the last year, that aren't just pulled out of statistics reports ( because those are being made up on the fly to meet whatever the grand vision of the month is. )