I'm just glad this chapter of my life is over and I can move on to something I enjoy. I can't say I will miss anything about HP/HPE because I never experienced it in the 9 years I worked for them I worked mostly out of my home and was so isolated I never established any real working relationships with a single person and only met my manager once or twice a year. What an awful and pathetic way to use people. And then tell people who they hired working from home and tell them they have to move near a facility or lose their job so they do and then to lay them off. WTF is wrong with this company? It's very dysfunctional on many many levels... sometimes I find that mid level managers and above don't have a clue what their people actually do... it's kind of crazy and we all bang our drums and bang our heads and no on makes any money... See HPE, you never made money... you were floating on a sea of HP Ink for so long you forgot how to swim,,, and now you're sinking...
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Geeze you were on a gravy train for 9 years ! They want to call you in and sort out just what you've been doing ? That's what I'd do if it were my business ! LOL
This can depend on the manager. I telework and some managers have been great about fostering an integrated team feeling. My current one is terrible but given the pace of change (we'll call it) , maybe I'll have a better one soon. I agree the recall of everyone back into an office was for executive egos and not for any productivity concerns, like many initiatives lately, and that is unfortunate.
For those of us who telecommuted, it was tolerable. We saved money and time not having to sit in traffic for an hour or longer, just to satisfy a CEO's ego trip, or worse, as part of an effort to demoralize employees.
Like the OP, I stuck with HP/HPE because there was security there... do your job, keep getting a paycheck. The bright spot was the customer satisfaction, but even that dwindled, as decisions from the highest levels of management continued to pummel the relationship with clients. We also often worked with great people, but as the WFRs continued to flow, we saw them shoved out, one-by-one.
When I saw the writing on the wall, I got out. Somebody else called it... "brightsizing". I was torn about leaving my team in a lurch, but then again, they all deserved better than HPE, and maybe my departure might spur them to move on, too, before getting a pink slip and a few tarnished silver coins.
Unfortunately, sometimes the best people, who are the best because they are loyal and dedicated, are often the ones who stick around out of duty to their colleagues... it's a bad reason to stay - it's a rationalization - but it can be a strong "de-" motivator.
So for anybody on the fence about leaving, because of misplaced loyalty to the company (HPE is NOT loyal to you, thus does not deserve loyalty from you) or to their teams (honorable, for sure, but a losing proposition for everybody in the end) - consider that the grass is truly greener on the other side. Get out of "Big IT" and find an employer who doesn't grace this site. They do exist... and you'll be happier, wealthier, and probably live a longer life.
It was so terrible that you worked there for nine years. If it was so bad, why did you not quit and go elsewhere? Obviously it wasn't that bad.