Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

Micron is not interested in keeping good current employees. Micron is interested in the latest product that involves no risk. Technology has made people expendable and mostly unimportant.......progress, I guess.

Does anyone know the average age of the people that were laid off because they were given a 1 or 2?

At least when GE used the rank and yank, you had to be rated low 2 consecutive times to be fired. And you were given a year for improvement. Micron's rank and yank is much more harsh. The 90 day option is bogus. They just want the employee to take the severance and leave. If you have a low performer, why not give them a chance to move to another department since Micron is so desperate for employees. Then, If they are still ranked low, the severance package is then justified? This would help eliminate biased or bad managers from letting good employees go. I know several former micron employees who are highly successful at other companies. So why were they not successful at Micron?

Laying off skilled employees and then claiming you can't find enough qualified workers is ludicrous, yet Micron has been doing this for years...

Poor young guys, aged and matured guys, and unlucky guys who had to work for bad boss need to go as usual. Nobody leaving Micron was wrong nor low performance for sure. Just victims. I think.

Because I don't understand the reason why current Micron does not have strong strategy for

making competitiveness or new business but more force for inside. The management believes strength is just making a new building, new offices, more capacity for new devices, etc.. not new business challenges outside memory business. We had many challenges in the past such as CMOS imager, Solar, pico projector, etc...

If company needs to cut people but still making great money, my preference is to try a new business challenges and apply the people. It could be high risk but better than just cutting people. Who is thinking autonomous car demonstration in the campus, outsourcing HR with AI technology, or new acquisition opportunities??? No longer inspiration there now, so people are losing moral like a civil war in a small memory business and HR has to pour fuel on it. I seriously concern about that.

I was let go a few years ago from Micron and did get the table showing ages. Most on the table were 40+. It is well known that Micron discriminates against age. The catch is they make you sign a document stating you won't sue the company in order to get your severance.