Torturing, Crippling, and Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs… With Layoffs!

I have absolutely no personal knowledge or special insight into this, but there is an ongoing flurry of lawsuits back and forth between HPE and the Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles (RIDMV). I am willing to bet, though, that HPE defeated itself on that project, by constantly laying off the older, more experienced, more expensive code-writers, and replacing them with “new grads”, H-1Bs, and overseas “newbies” who couldn’t get the job done right, and on a timely basis… All these things must be done, so as to chase imagined costs savings, and to increase Meg’s bonus and “golden parachute”, see?

Does anyone know here, one way or the other, is my guess accurate? (For more published info here, see the likes of http://wpri.com/2017/03/07/judge-rules-against-ri-in-dmv-it-project-lawsuit/ and http://wpri.com/2017/04/04/hpe-tries-to-block-ceo-deposition-in-dmv-it-project-lawsuit/ ).

It is as if you have a golden-egg-laying goose, and you just can NOT resist the temptation to “save some money” by half-starving the goose, taking a kidney here, replacing the eyes with glass balls, and replacing a few lobes of liver with cardboard mock-ups, and so on. Then be surprised when the goose goes comatose, and finally keels over dead (or just pretend the goose is just fine and dandy, is more HPE management style). I can tell you with near-absolute certainty, this is exactly what happened at the immediate small sub-org of HPE where I got laid off. The org is comatose, but the managers are high-fiving each other, because Meg’s Command to replace the experienced with the inexperienced employees, has been obeyed!

Now HPE has a new contract with the DOE (Department of Energy) to deliver a derivative of HPE’s “The Machine”; see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/us-doe-the-machine-exascale-supercomputer/ … Will anyone place a bet here? Will Meg pull the same old goose-killing stunts here? Will the DOE be suing HPE for lack of delivery, here, a few years on down the line, just as the RIDMV is now suing HPE? Is Meg capable of learning, will She ever learn?

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@NZhLbUv-zuz, the post from NZhLbUv-pvy was meant to be sarcastic ...

@NZhLbUv-pvy " I'm impressed by the in-depth knowledge of this case by you! Hats off to you "counsel"! "

.... my aren't we impressed with ourselves. It was a straight cut/paste from a google search. You could probably (maybe) even have done it yourself.

: @NZhLbUv-uwr, I'm impressed by the in-depth knowledge of this case by you! Hats off to you "counsel"! Being in the trenches to deliver services to the government agencies (HP), I do feel sorry for the tax payers for the reasons below:

HP has the upper hands by having a "farm" of shrew legal counsels
Most contracts negotiated works to HP advantages.
If SOW or SLA is not fulfilled or met, there is plenty of tactics to employ. How? Threaten the agencies to walk off the job or offer to pay penalties. How to make up the differences? WFRs of HP workers or make the customer pay more - tax payers $$.

Who suffered? Tax payers and HP workers !!

Whether the RI will prevail itself or not.. more tax payers $$ or WFR to recoupe penalties $$...HP is genius when it comes down to feathering its own nest ..

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday dealt a blow to the state’s legal case against the company building a new Division of Motor Vehicles computer system, denying R.I.’s request for a preliminary injunction against Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services that would have kept the company on the job until the state’s lawsuit is resolved.

The state sued for breach of contract in November after HP threatened to walk off the job if it wasn’t compensated $12 million for the project delays. So far, the state has paid HP around $13 million.

Silverstein issued a temporary restraining order in November keeping HP on the job, and his bench decision quashing the restraining order Tuesday will not go into effect until March 17 to give the state a chance to appeal, if it chooses, according to court spokesman Craig Berke.

Berke said Silverstein denied the state’s preliminary injunction based on its failure to demonstrate a likelihood that it will prevail on the merits at trial.

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