I read somewhere below a post of someone that wants to be remembered as a very valuable employee at Cisco no matter what. I understand, but it made me laugh a little because it could only be said by a person with extremely high self-confidence that thinks he is an important part of this machine, not just an ordinary number that no one will remember. Anyone else that would want to be especially remembered at Cisco?
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The manager who is constantly checking WhatsAp, to see messages from the OlCountry. Will they send me a wife this year? And the latest chutney recipes.
So many failed projects during my time there because of poor leadership.
I wanted to be remembered for work ethic and doing the job not for the money, but because I loved the teamwork.
But the reality is:
Hopefully Cisco reaped the financial rewards of harvesting my base $108,000 salary towards the funding of another project.
I took my old-school TAC work ethic elsewhere instead of wallowing the rest of my career in a perpetual, non-genuine unmotivating existence of culturally woke "technology innovation" culture. Sad.
Could have been much different. Wish I could have stayed. Looking back; how stupid was I to believe in an old-school TAC work ethic.
Instead Cisco is now a giant ponzi scheme in which the annual LR for the masses is used as needed to feed Executive salaries managing a declining business model. A once great thing: wasted...for what?
That was me that said it. People move on from Cisco and remember what type of employee you are. Are you dependable, trustworthy, diligent, have integrity, etc.? Those traits follow you wherever you go. If you are not productive and seen as not contributing, that will follow you outside of Cisco as well. This is not about the company, it's about you as the person. I too left Cisco and was not happy with the direction it was headed in, but I kept doing my job for my team mates up until my departure (voluntary). They hired me for my integrity and work ethic, and I proved them right. Do the same regardless where you are at in life.
Employees at Cisco or not considered to be human by management, Instead HR uses the term human collateral, and the work you do is just “business product”. A bean counter doesn’t look at a particular bean and go “oh, that’s a great bean, I will remember that bean”. No, you’re just a number.
Go out and do something worthwhile in the world, leave the corporate BS at Cisco, because one day you’ll get a one on one invite from your manager, and you will become just a bean, discarded, laid off. Please don’t fool yourself and think that Cisco cares about you. They don’t. Sad but true.
I wanna be remembered as the guy who puts in only 45 minutes of work per day while the rest is spent on watching netflix and youtube videos. Yeah, very unique.
How to be remembered is for family and friends. If one is ambitious and wants to leave a legacy in life, not sure coorporate full of politics cisco is the place to be.
Go there, do the job, leave your mark also outside of work..some people refer to it as work life balance.
I’m probably going to check out of Cisco within the next 18 months. I don’t want to be remembered at all.
I don't care about any memories back at Cisco because I will never go back there. What has served me well is my reputation from my time there with people I have worked with who are at the 2 companies I went to afterwards.
I got hired based on that and you can't place a value on it.