Thread regarding Seagate Technology Inc. layoffs

The anticipation is the worst

So sad another week of torment for everyone involved. Those who remain have to see friends go and pick up a lot of extra work while others have their life disrupted. People don't appreciate IT until their computer won't work or their applications are not available. Many people work very hard to keep the lights on in a complex massive environment. Nobody ever calls and says thank you for my systems that allow me to do my job. To add to the misery the day of reckoning is postponed? Really? Behind every person is a family so when the folks who are paid 10-20 times the same salary as a single IT person decide who to let go, the impacted body count is three or four fold. Corporate America is this way now and our children know it. They are working to serve their own needs with no loyalty, who can blame them? Good luck everyone...hoping for better days ahead.

Agree, @Oha0Cf0-6ixx. I think that by now not knowing is worse than being let go but at least knowing where we stand. Morale has never been as low as it is now, and it has been getting worse. I wish we at least got some concrete info, this guessing game is killing me.

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Post ID: @OP+Onpajfo

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Post ID: @Ajaph+Onpajfo

Any "leak" of this video out to YouTube, or someplace?

I was laid off in September 2015, so my "trustable" friends remaining at Seagate are dwindling, so I don't think I know anybody who can siphon this video off the corporate network, and share it with me, and others, some way.

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Post ID: @5chr+Onpajfo

Everyone should take flexible time off on Tuesday

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Post ID: @3rrt+Onpajfo

The next 2 days cannot pass fast enough.

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Post ID: @3dgh+Onpajfo

I hope for that every day.

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Post ID: @3rcm+Onpajfo

I'm kind of hopping they lay off too many critical people they were too dumb to realize were critical and it manifests in a shut down of the entire company network and production systems for a month. That would be cool to behold everything just grind to a frickin halt. That must be the beer talking

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Post ID: @2vgk+Onpajfo

Wow, a film to boost employee morale RIGHT BEFORE the RIF that everyone knows is coming?

Can you say "Tone Deaf"? "Clueless"? "Bad Optics"?

Seriously, the upper mgmt here, they are idiots. I'm not saying this in order to be nasty, or insulting, or to vent. I'm saying it as an observation of fact, the way one might say "this milk has gone bad" or "the toilet is backed up again." There really is no other explanation for just how bad it has gotten. They do not know what they are doing, at all.

The culture at this company has become poisonous.

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Post ID: @1lhk+Onpajfo

Dozens of times a day the pendulum swings from hope of keeping the job to hope of being relived of the decision to stay or quit. Walking out the door to another opportunity vs being shown the door with a few months' salary to figure out the next opportunity. The anticipation is definitely wearing on most everyone.

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Post ID: @1dzr+Onpajfo

I watched that wonderful production and it made me sick thinking of what is about to happen! Wonder how many of the employees featured will even be employed after Wednesday? Way to go Seagate! Total lack of respect for their employees.

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Post ID: @1tzj+Onpajfo

Very recently at NRM, site management went the extra mile to produce and show (multiple times!) a fun, feel-good infomercial starring real NRM STX employees! It was great!

It was carefully crafted so as to instill a sense of esteem and purpose in all of us so honored to work at such a visionary, high-tech factory of the future!

We are especially grateful that they invested the time and money to make this - for us!

But even more, we are grateful that they thoughtfully timed the release of this film so that the 10% (or more) of the audience that will quite soon be unemployed shall be able to enjoy a sense of pride at having been jettisoned by such an inspirational company!

How warm they will feel to ruminate upon the awe-inspiring nano-engineering of Tomorrow's Storage that they have been kindly invited to not be a part of!

Oh the gratitude they will feel as they wait in the unemployment line and reflect on how their many years of service were rewarded by this, the ultimate homage, a 15-minute documentary about a world-class fab where they are now as welcome as head-lice!

This is the kind of Focus on People that only an Employer of Choice can pull off! Bravo, S3AGAT3! Bravo!

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Post ID: @1otv+Onpajfo

Does anyone knows which location will be effected this time?

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Post ID: @1ryd+Onpajfo

Your Seagate days are numbered if you live in a high cost region, and that includes Singapore. This is a move to reduce cost, not headcount. Labor cost in India, China, Malaysia are 1/6 to 1/8th of US. Retrench one in the US and hire four replacements, and still save money. Even better, hire contractors that are not OPEX costs.

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Post ID: @zrn+Onpajfo

Is it just IT that there will be a RIF? Is it Seagate worldwide or just a few areas in America? Im curious to know what,who and where its all happening and if its all true or rumours that have been blown massively out of proportion.

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