Why didn't I take ERP? I'm dreading Monday.

What was I thinking?

The job had already descended into a lot of suck before the layoffs were announced.

Every day I get another pile of goodbye email messages and I'm shocked at how many engineers and technicians are departing the D1D and D1X twins. You would think we would have the smarts to not gut our fabs.

Come Monday we will still need to make our WIP turns. God help you if you make a mistake of any kind. The brass makes mistakes that cost billions, but if we make a mistake recovering a wafer on a faulted tool its a career ending move.

I used to love my job but thanks to BK and his band of HR lovelies I hate it.

I feared the unknown of not having a job and didn't take the ERP. When the deadline passed I expected to be relived, and I was for a few days. But now I fear the unknown of waiting for the next random bolt from the sky, or an invite from my manager and HR, and what I'll get if they force me out.

I'm upset, unhappy, filled with regret. Maybe in a year I'll still be there and I'll be happy. Or I'll be somewhere else and be happy. Or sad. I know one thing, Intel doesn't give a damn.

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+1 OP

OP, if you don't regret it, why were you crying in the post. #loser

Every day gets worse.

Just think how bad Tuesday is going to be!

OP here. I didn't take it because I have been with Intel a long time (I'm a tech) and make a decent living. Age discrimination is real. Only thing worse than trying not to get tossed out when you are older is finding another job.

Stay true to yourself! The said it was voluntary.

Get that 10 hypersonic running, why you spending time here?

If it don't get it out intel is sunk

I find this quote appropriate:

"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living. "

Hang in there OP. June 2nd was the most tense I have been and I did not choose the ERP. The grass is greener on the other side. If you look at the postings for the other companies on this site, there is little difference among them. Intel is far from dead. The restructuring is positioning Intel to show business units with growth; once the the latter is evident to Wall St, the stock will take off. BTW, Intel is not a sane place (same politics as from over 3 decades ago and it will not change because human nature does not change). You are in there for the money just as you would be at any other company.

What's up with people crying over spilled milk here?

You know, it's a shame we can't go back in time and post some of these threads about regret several weeks ago. Still, I wonder if people would have heeded their own advice? Hindsight is 20/20 as the saying goes.

It still befuddles me though, I mean especially those offered the ERP package; a year's salary, 2 years paid medical, I even more or less got another sabbatical as I left early May and remain on payroll until June 24th. Then, there is the anticipated dread of trying to accomplish all the work of the people who did take the offers, whilst in a cut throat environment fearing any little mistake will surely spell doom. No, rather than putting up with that, I went to the beach yesterday :)

You could try and contact HR early morning and pretend you clicked on accept last week June 2nd and today you are not sure why it has not gone through.

Who really cares how sand pebble in the desert feels? FLMs? SLMs? VPs? BK? MR?

C'mon, dude, heads up! If you leave INTEL, it is not yet end of the world, it is beginning of the new career. Even flipping burgers could be more interesting then working in INTEL's vitriol culture.

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