Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

This is the problem statement: "HPE’s relevance is in question!" It's true - we all know.

Anybody's wondering what Meg's solution will be?

HPE has a psychological disorder that needs constant medication.

HPE Off-meds (crazy unpredictable rabbit-boiler)

• Large scale layoffs

• Furlough of contractors (without the notification of Directors & Above)

-Institutes a survey that lumps your direct manager IN with SENIOR management. So even if your

direct supervisor is a decent person, they still get the negative results. With VOW you could at least

put the screws to the Leadership of the company and still give your boss a thumbs up.

HPE On-meds (Able to keep a steady job, clean shaven and cheerful)

• Ric Lewis sends message about how great HPE Discover was for HPE & Customers

• Email sent to employees reminding us about the upcoming "Bring Their Kids to Work" Day

• Another email touting some big gozillion number crunching computer (18 zeros!!!)

Sometimes it feels like we are Mel Gibson's wife in 'Signs' and we are just waiting for the car to be backed up.

(Look Sally, this is what sadness and depression look like!")

Now hear the latest… I am not clear on all the details, such as, did Meg communicate the latest anti-contractor policies as a dictated command, or as a strong suggestion. But I can tell you that it went out mostly (or entirely?) to the lowest levels of management (the ones that actually hire contractors), bypassing the higher levels of management (such as directors and VPs). “What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do!??!”-type panic arose among the 1st-line managers… HOW can we get ANYTHING done without our hordes of contractors, in certain segments of the business. So… This type of panic-buzz at staff meeting, is the first time an upper manager heard of it!

This seems to be classic Meg style… Throw Her weight around willy-nilly, without ANY regard as to who she angers, or, what are the longer term implications of Her Commands! And NO thought given about, to WHOM, and HOW, are policies communicated! (Kinda like The Donald, you know?)

WHEN will the board give Her Her walking papers?!?! (I know, “Golden Parachute” costs too much. Well, that‘s part of the problem. Don’t give the next Dictator a “Golden Parachute” contract. You mean to tell me you can NOT find a qualified CEO willing to take $35 million/year, w/o a “Golden Parachute” contract?).

I've been in the game 20-years with 12 different employers. It didn't take long after I began with HPE I saw the familiar signs of NOTHING...projects evaporating, travel banned. She can't cut travel more than she has already. I saw DOOM immediately after joining in 2015. I knew the writing was on the wall. I was supposed to be working ON ALL THESE NEW SERVERS!!! And they disappeared...one by one. No new projects. This company is smoke in the wind.

Yes, and from a recent Meg speech, She wants to make contractors take 20 days off w/o pay between now and September. This is after She "saved money" by laying off permanent employees and hiring contractors to replace them, and then having a hissy-fit and letting go, contractors who had committed the "sin" of being laid-off regulars... See "“Blacklist” Policy Hardens, and, Recent Layoffs in Houston" at https://www.thelayoff.com/t/NsA5dio ... Save money by hammering regulars and replacing them with contractors... Now save money by hammering contractors, and replacing the contractors with regulars, from the ever-shrinking pool of regulars (which is Her latest will-'o-the-wisp). WHO is going to be left to do the work?!?!? Which way is up, which way is down? Meg's story changes by the day (or by the hour?), and you had BETTER see it HER way, or it's the highway! That, too, can be gleaned from Her latest speech, w/o much of any free-wheeling interpretation! (Get on board and ADAPT to the changes! Do not question why; Ours is but to do and die!).

It was utterly precious to see/hear the utter silence in the room when She cluelessly cried out about how She and Her Cronies would like to have bonuses, too... Poor suffering things.... But EVERYONE is going to have to cut back!

What I would dearly like to know is, is Her approx. $90-million "Golden Parachute" (contractual reward for failure) shrinking, as She cast off ever-larger pieces of HPE, leaving less and less behind. (I for one would like to see less and less of Her Inflated Queen-Bee-Hind!)