I don't like companies laying off either, but right now there are some real winner on the WebEx. One lady said she was making sandwiches and could not reply during a scheduled weekly meeting. Another guy said he cannot do Tuesdays. The manager KNOWS he is working two jobs and put us on MUTE and told us ( those in the room ). WTF?
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Some managers are only got good at two things
- Use microsoft power point & excel
- Screw up every agile project and blame agile for the wake in their path. They damme good at it. As good with words as Obama like that. Somehow coming away as a cool cat, screw up and not get fire.
ELT preaching diversity and how we should all get along BUT look at the org charts! Indian VP, Indian Dirs, Indian Management, Indian Techleads, and Indian engineers. Ok Cisco talk is cheap, time for some spring cleaning or stop with the we are the world spiel!
It’s true that it demonstrates you weren’t really needed but that’s true for the meetings as well. Most of them are performance opportunities for incompetents.
I work 2 jobs and can handle 2 meetings simultaneously from Cisco and my other fulltime job. Only dummies use the mute button as it is obvious. Duh!!
No, you can't really handle 2 meetings simultaneously. If you're managing to multi-task between the two meetings, it only goes to show that you weren't really needed in one, or both, of those meetings.
I can multi-task well enough to do work while in a meeting, but I can't answer two different questions in two different meetings at the same time and I doubt you can either. I guess you drop one meeting and claim that you had a network glitch so you can interact with the other meeting before rejoining the first one, huh? Do that often enough and your manager will start telling you to get a better ISP.
Do what you have to do. Some people that can juggle 2 jobs are higher performing than some at the company with only one.
Who cares about employee loyalty? We sell legacy network equipment in 2020. It's time to dramatically cut costs.
Constant risk of knife in the back (layoff) destroys employee loyalty and destroys organization's culture.
I work 2 jobs and can handle 2 meetings simultaneously from Cisco and my other fulltime job. Only dummies use the mute button as it is obvious. Duh!!
Eventually they get put on needs improvement, and go somewhere else, hopefully? Someone else's problem?