Anyone know when the next layoff is going to be? Awhile back on this site, someone mentioned May or June. Anyone else hearing about upcoming layoffs?
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Only layoff being bounded about is about the DH crew clearing the decks......some highly paid individuals doing not a lot....need to go...
COO = WD troll
LOL @ zsm,
"Chief Operating Officer", "several companies".
Best laugh I've had all week.
“I used to be the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of several companies. But I am embarrassed to tell you the things I used to do in corporate. When you want to fire people who work in corporate jobs, it gets very messy.
So instead, we make life very difficult for them. We humiliate them in meetings, we tell them they are not performing, we reshuffle the structure and put junior people as their bosses. Eventually they cannot ‘tahan’ and they will leave themselves. This is what they taught me in corporate, and this is what I did. But you don't realise it all eventually comes back to you.
If you are mid-manager level, it's fine because you are purely operational. Once you get to senior manager position, that’s when the politicking starts. People get jealous of you, people backstab you and they would do anything to get rid of you. That's when you see the bad side of human nature.
"Why did you quit corporate?"
One day I was looking through the photo album and realised that the past 20 years passed by in a blur. I could barely recall my daughters growing up. But I'm glad I was given a second chance in life. This is my second chance.
Can you believe, I am saving up more money now with my salary as a flea-market trader, than when I was in corporate. I also realized money was spent on unnecessary luxuries. For example, I thought I could not live without Astro because I used to watch EPL (English Premiere League football) every weekend. When I cut off Astro to save money, I realised I didn't miss it that much.
I have three daughters, two are in university and one just finished SPM. Once the last one goes to university too, me and wife will move to a smaller apartment. We don't need that much in life, when you live simply you realise that it is enough.
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Filter dude. You must be assuming a phase stable quarter.
A seagate disc drive engineer has about a six month band pass employment filter.
25% R&D layoff not a secret or rumor. Was mentioned in a few meetings last week.
May../june per usual.
It's seagate. Layoffs are always just around the corner. Gotta make those quarterly numbers even if it means hurting the business in the long run.
Don't be a joker! We have full capacity run till end of the year. Get a life! Comeback & post here again in 2019.
Nope. The people who use to have that insight were mostly let go at my work site. Been fairly quiet. However, not sure if those opx numbers were met.