Thread regarding CA Technologies (CA Inc.) layoffs

We're mostly screwed but at least the economic outlook is finally great again! We might find other opportunities in actual growing companies. The chance is 1000x better now than if that criminal corrupt fukking cuuunt Hillary won! It makes you wonder what that piece of trash "Sh*t Economy is the New Normal" Obama was doing for 8 years.

@BikeyMikey99

Maybe you should spend 5 more mins reading posts before spouting off and lecturing others. I didn't say WARN wasn't paid, in fact, I wrote that it HAD been. My 45 min conversation with someone who actually lived through this at Brocade provided the backstory about employees having to "lawyer up" to get it. But, then again ... apparently, just saying something 100 times will make it happen.

This question has been asked and answered about 100 times internally at CA. WARN will be honored if the cuts are deep enough to qualify for WARN which everyone knows they will. Brocade in fact did get WARN pay. It is public record. Stop posting things that you hear that aren't true. Spend 5 minutes researching it.

Guess I shouldn't be surprised when former Brocade executive tells you that Broadcom said they don't have to honor the WARN act after Broadcom closed the Brocade deal. Brocade kept telling their rank and file that WARN would be in place, but Broadcom decided to pull it and has some precedent for doing that. Only after Brocade employees retained legal counsel en masse did Broadcom relent and actually honor it. Broadcom lingo refers to it as the "inner Hock" ... save money ANY way you can to maximize profit for shareholders.

I think we are all screwed. Just my opinion.

Sales = effed

Marketing = effed

Legal = effed

And that's just the beginning.

Oh and if your title is Director or above, that goes double.

That is funny. Broadcom doesn’t care about employee reviews. They don’t do them. They never asked CA for any of them and anyone that works in GIS can confirm they are impossible to collect let alone for thousands of employees for multiple years. Get real, Broadcom is going to cut as many people as possible. The one thing I bet they did ask for is performance for sales people. Be ready, 11:5 is around the corner and the cuts will be so massive your head will be blown.

Broadcom was given CA employee reviews as far back as CA has them. They will only retain people who met or exceeded expectations, but not if you’re paid too much....

CA has been mismanaged for so long. Broadcom won't do any better. If you are smart you should be hoping for severance and not hoping to keep your job. It's scary but working for a c-appy company is worse.

Whenever the deal closes, it's my understanding that CA people will be given an offer to be retained or they'll be informed they're being laid off. If you're being laid off, maybe it's right then, maybe after whatever warning period is required at your location. If you get an offer and you reject it, It's my understanding that you won't get severance, because you're quitting.

I bet anyone who thinks they have an "option" to be retained or to take severance, that'll be managers moving people up and down their recommendation lists. It's CA people who will recommend who stays and who goes, not Broadcom people, because they don't know who knows anything. Broadcom may have a target headcount to meet in each area, but I don't believe they're going to pick at random.

No one is getting the option to make a choice. You will be told what to do and you will have to deal with that. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. There’s always another option. Build your skills, build your network, be open to something new. Don’t let corporate greed, aka BikeBoys $70mil get you down.

Take the severance and run. If you get fired later be it will be on Broadcom’s severance and they are not generous. They are not the worst place to work but there are better places to be and you shouldn’t stay at a company only looking to make money and nothing else. It will tire quickly.

If you has the option to stay on with Broadcom or take severance and move on, what would you do?

IMHO staying on with Broadcom will mean a well paid job, but a job which will likely lead to an out of date skillset where you have little further market value outside of ca/broadcom. If you are close to your working career ending then you could well enjoy this. If you have bigger goals in your remaining work life tread carefully as you maybe be an out of date entity externally to any decent employer. Best wishes to all.

@UW5gow4-mne is correct.

I'm not sure what all of this hand ringing is about regarding ranking. I got a secret for yeah. CA still ranks every employee, regardless of what they tell people. It's just no longer exposed to the employee. All companies do this to some extend.