CA. the company that I know many like me have called home for years will not exist in a few days! My heart breaks for many reasons but most of all for the Children of CA! I walk the halls of CA Islandia and I can’t believe it is coming to an end. I watch the Halloween decorations going up and it usually is a fun time but now it just reminds me that this will be the last time our kids will travel through the amazing displays our teams work so hard building. It shouldn’t be the end but I know that it is and I wish it wasn’t so. Broadcom has broke the CA spirit and many of us who called CA home. I loved this place and I wish Gregoire never became CEO. He had only one intention from the beginning and we are alll experiencing this because of him and his failure. I wonder how long he thought or if he gave any thought to the employees of CA, the children of CA. Money was his only thought. #CAforever
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I do think some of these replies are a little harsh. Hate to be stereotypical but OP might be from Venus and replies are from Mars.
Employers can be like family in that many people spend more waking hours at their job then with their family and relationships with co-workers.
Yes employers will only follow, in the end, the bottom line. But employers take many different approaches on how to attract and retain valuable/profitable talent. Some use money, some use flexibility, some use long term development and growth. We are undergoing a paradigm shift in the treatment. The only way CA could retain staff was gyms, day care, half day Friday’s office parties, with some RSUs at the higher levels. Those RSU’s largely stayed flat. Broadcom is a totally different model - overpay key technical staff in Broadco, stock and squeeze the company to jack up the stock price. It’s working but the stock won’t go up forever. It works very well I a rising school com market with low interest rates 2009-2018.
Hate to break this to you, but this is a gig economy. Companies will employ you when it is to their benefit and not a moment longer. likewise, the concept of liking an institution that is Corporation is like loving an alligator. Your feelings just don't compute.
All of us in Islandia care, especially GIS.
But this has dragged on since August, so it's been a very long and slow goodbye. People get over it at different rates.
Anyone who considers their job their home has a very twisted understanding of job VS. home. Get some series psychological assistance as soon as possible. I pity your poor family.
I don’t care... do you?
I have been in CA 20 years and I cant wait for this to be over. I will start working for Broadcom and turn the page. Company that you don’t pay premium for health insurance, matches 6% 401K , ESPP with 15 % and RSU stock that actually goes up.
No Hock Tan is closer to Charles (RIP Great Man) than little bikeboy.... shoked myself in prounincing his f---ing canadian name
Now the 50% of employees who survive will be the children of Thanos
The life is outside... if someone should met bikeboy in your next future, please use hid head like a baseball ball
CA is a public company owned by shareholders. Run by a board of directors. All of whom approved this sale. All of whom gave Gregoire direction.
CA being sold is something many thought of for the past 10 years.
I spent many years in Islandia too. Then I left CA and found a world outside Islandia.
Islandia people have this weird Stockholm syndrome thing going on. It's what happens when there's really only one major employer in a town. Most of us just work here but Islandia ppl loooooooooove CA.
I do care .. sad , very sad
The 'children of CA'? Jeez, give it a rest. Were you weeping for all of the terrific little companies that CA acquired and then gutted?
Meh. It's just a job. I'll miss my co workers more than the company.