I am an employee at Cisco and since the start of the pandemic I have been doing only 1 hour of work per day. Typically I can accomplish more in my one hour per day than the typical Cisco employee can in 10 hour day. I’m not sure that anyone at work has noticed and during my 1:1s my manager is telling me I am doing a great job and that I’m on track for a promotion.
I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience?
Cisco is the best place to work in the multiverse!
You have a script that can auto-fill the TPS reports with random data? Please share it with the forum.
Piece of 🍰!
import PyATS
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Yes 100% accurate for myself as well when I was working as a Collab Specialist. I was doing MAX 2-3hrs per day of actual work and manager was absolutely fine with my performance. Goes to show the specialist model is a bit flawed. Theres like 10 specialist per AM and only the 1-2 more experienced ones do all the work. Glad I left pre-sales! I moved into Zoom a month ago and its a whole nother story....
Ripoff the Ripper.
You have a script that can auto-fill the TPS reports with random data? Please share it with the forum.
You are NOT very smart.
You should write a script to do the one hour of daily work. You are wasting your time with reoccurring tasks that could be automated (in one hour).
One and done, my friend.
The managers make you go to meetings all the time, just to make themselves important or relevant.
Here's how it works at Cisco, at least insofar as my experience. They acquired your company, either to add to their product mix or to k–l off access to your product(s) from competitors. If the latter, you'll be more quickly dissolved. They try to re-package your product(s) into some behemoth software package in order to jack up the price. One effect of that is your previous customers now are kinda turned off because of the bloatware. So your work mainly is to integrate, no more innovate. Then after the packaging is done, you're gone, and your work is now maintained by offshore workers. In the meantime, you just waste your talent doing basically nothing meaningful.
I wonder how Cisco can survive like that. It must be a lot of arm twisting, but we know from IBM's experience, you can only twist that much.
What a shame what's happened to once premier tech company in Silicon Valley.
The key is to do as minimum as possible whilst building up your side gig
While I certainly won’t k–l myself for this or any company, I still want to do the right thing and not take my monthly pay for granted and do my job properly. People like you should not work here, in fact you should not work anywhere with your work ethic. You are just a selfish w—rr that thinks oh you are so cool cause you beat the system and love the dream. You should be ashamed of yourself and waste someone else’s time. I’m by no means a big fan of Cisco’s current leadership team and many things they put into place, but at least I don’t have to feel guilty about abusing the company cause if I did then I would be no better than all these people we are compliant about.
You actually do work at Cisco? That puts you in the top .001% of employees. Most of us just pretend
I work only 5 minutes per day, so in week I put just under 30 minutes. Why should Chuck and the ELT rake in millions while I toil away for peanuts? Monkey See, Monkey Do!
Sounds like what I did. I delivered network analysis reports to customers using a template report. After a few months I wrote code to automate the analysis using the customer data collected. Afterwards, I probably worked 10 hours a week from home. Customers loved the report and it was of great value to them. I did this my last six years at Cisco.
This post pops up once in a while. This person is delusional. It would be easy if cisco were to approach this sites admins (money talks and privacy statement would allow it) and cross reference the source or X-forwarded -for http header of the poster with DUO authentication login IP.
WOW, you really s— at milking the teet.
You did 4 3/4 hours more of work than most Cisco employees.
You need to learn how to plan fake meetings for 15 minutes and take the rest of the week off!
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The fact of the matter is that because of people who aren't pulling their weight and the current business climate they are people who are forced to do multiple roles and face incredible stress while getting little to no recognition except for the occasional "we are so lucky to have you on this team" - but not a raise, promotion, or any meaningful RSUs.
Beat on the little guy workers at all costs to ensure we meet "the streets" expectations but never give them a taste of the bounty. Instead over-reward the ELT for making the numbers on the backs of the people. The days of getting fairly compensated, especially when you do something amazing that saves a customer or expands a deal, are gone for good. Oh and make sure to get the connected recognition $25 and $50 rewards out before the quarterly fund runs dry.
Hopefully you are gone the next LR and your 1:1s are nothing but a smokescreen for the oncoming storm.
They are spend 10 hours a day fixing all the bugs you spent an hour writing.
"Typically I can accomplish more in my one hour per day than the typical Cisco employee can in 10 hour day"
How do you know that? don't you think the "other" Cisco employees are playing the same game as you do? they probably think about you the same way? which is that you don't do sh– and they spend 1 hour doing what it takes you 100 hours? Hahaha
The matter of fact is that most people don't do sh– but pretend to be busy all the time just like yourself.