Why cut itself off from such a huge pool of talent when its meant to such a transformative business ?
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"The standard answer from the management on why they don't rehire WFRs is that they "have to provide opportunities for their existing employees to grow in their careers." ..."
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HPE's top mis-management's deeply heart-felt concerns for providing for your career growth, however, do NOT go so far as to prevent them from hiring ever more and more H-1B "indentured servants", and sending more jobs overseas! And their concerns CERTAINLY do not go so far as to take some pay cuts for themselves, from their exorbitant net pay rates, so as to retain some more productive worker bees!
The standard answer from the management on why they don't rehire WFRs is that they "have to provide opportunities for their existing employees to grow in their careers." That is also why they won't allow a WFR working for a contract shop to work on an HPE account. All contractors' social security numbers are run against HPE's list of previous employees to be sure they aren't going through an agency.
Just Google it if that is what you need.
I want to hear more about the woman that was given a “huge package”.
Brown nosers, wastes of skin, blacklisters, pig’s ears, mediocre people, ad nauseum. This entire post is a comedic joke written by corporate failures who can’t keep a job. I come here for humor relief. Learn how to write a resume and actually contribute to the workforce.
Who let the brown nosers in?
Looks like the likes of the last poster and his ilks swoop down on this site and p--p all over whenever there is increased level of legitimate posts here.
These are die hard stinking brown nosers.
They do not rehire you because they already deemed you unworthy. Nothing has changed; you are still a waste of skin.
Yes, HP and then HPE top mis-management have justified their "blacklisting" policy for many years, in the name of "We don't want to pay you go-away bonuses twice".
Well, it takes NO financial super-genius to find a workable compromise: Hire you back at minimum wage (or a bit higher) till you have "paid back" your go-away bonus, then go back to a sensible wage after that. IF you were willing to trust HPE to NOT fire you the very instance after you are to return to "full pay"! And that is admittedly a big "IF"!!!
There's not very many high-tech workers who make the minimum wage... We ALL clear that by a WIDE margin! So this could be made to work. There are MANY people who can NOT move to another city, and they can find NO other hi-tech work. So there WOULD be "takers" for this.
The REAL reason why HPE doesn't do this, is that they lust after excuses to NOT hire you back, and hire H-1Bs instead! So they just MAKE UP an excuse!
Years back there were people that got a nice package only to return months later like nothing happened. One example is a woman that got a huge package due to length of service only to get rehired the next Monday. So yeah, I get it.
NOTE: It has nothing to do with how much money you make. I am proof, I was a Senior Level at HPE, I found out I was making equal to "Engineer I" as a senior level. I did get another job as low-level engineer because I needed a job. I found I was offered 20% higher salary and better health benefits (I say who cares about the title if I am going to make that much more money). It all has to do with race and favoritism I believe --- if you are White or African-American in a dominate high percentage of H1B visa employees you will be the first to be let go. And the Low Performance people if they are H1B stays. So it has nothing to do with High Performance or Low Performance people, it is only based on favoritism, H1B and Race.
Whole businesses/sections have been let go (3Par, 3Com/Palm, cloud, etc) and to call all these employees that were let go as low-performers is a laughable explanation. If they really got rid of low-performers, it would have been more surgical than to get rid of whole businesses/sections they acquired for millions/billions of dollars. It's not the fault of the worker; it's the fault of top mismanagement, poor leadership, poor usage of capital (wasteful acquisitions/stock buybacks/etc).
Also, I wouldn't consider the WFR'd to be a "huge" pool of talent. There are lots of talented people beyond just the WFR'd. Of course, to dismiss the WFR'd as unhireable employees is also a flaw. I think what HPE is trying to do is figure out how to get in with the "new". Management believes it is easier to do this with new inexperienced college hires already trained in the "new" than to retrain older, more experienced, more expensive employees. I think that's a mistake, but poor management only have basic skills, like bean counting.
My thoughts on why you can't come back. You've already taken HPE's severance and HPE doesn't want those who recently took severance to come back (unfair to HPE). Contractual obligations when you were spun out. For example, HPE sold off their businesses and employees to another company (DXC, Microfocus, etc) and the contract between the two companies disallow HPE employees that were sold off to the spinoff from coming back (unfair to the spinoff if people start going back to HPE). As for that HR blacklist from the old Carly days, those rules have weakened over the years.
I'd also follow up with a question of why one would want to come back to HPE after recent HPE job/benefit experiences. The job market is better now and there are other employers out there that may offer more than what HPE has to offer. If you were an HPE lifer before, it would be worthwhile to broaden your experience outside of HPE, unless HPE offered you something you could not get elsewhere.
In other words, part of the reason why laid-off employees are blacklisted is because of the utterly, monstrously HUGE egos of the mis-management! Hiring you BACK (in ANY capacity) would be at least vaguely tantamount to admitting that the HPE mis-management MADE A MISTAKE!!! And we can not have THAT, because HPE mis-management NEVER makes mistakes!
Even if millions of dollars of profits were at stake, they couldn't do it, because their egos are even more precious to them then HPE prifits are!
HPE is currently trying to hire (unsuccessfully so far) someone to do the job I had before WFR'd. The hiring manager was completely unaware of the no-hire policy when he talked to me. I'll bet that, now that Meg is history, there will be pressure to change the policy but for now it's the same as it has been since 2012.
It's kind of standard management procedure for those like Meg or Carly who have to blame someone else for their failures. The message is clear that they (she) would like the world to believe that but for the total incompetence of the employees the company would be in great shape.
HP retiree here. People that have been laid off from HP/HPE/HPI are by no means low performers. Carly tried to label those affected by the 1st big lay-off in 2001 as poor performers but later had to recant (internally of course) by saying "mistakes have been made". You haven't spent much time at HPE if you think those that are sacked are poor performers - they would be in the minority.