There was an interesting thread below about a manager who called a laid off employee to come back after some time. Of course, no one can know for sure, but I'm interested in how often it happens that they call employees to come back here. Any guesses?
I don't believe there are many who would answer the call and return to Cisco, or at least I hope that there aren't many. Someone would have to be in a desperate situation to do that.
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Why would that be desperate if the returnee know how to make the manager happy?
There was a returnee who only worked between 1pm and 7pm, and took lunch at 3-4pm. He successfully did it for 10+years. (No he did not have any early morning/late night meetings with different sites). He only answered to managers. He had a very good work-life balance.
If my manager called me and asked me to come back I would demand a substantial salary increase. If he says no then he says no, who cares.
If he agrees then I get to fall back into my old pattern of coasting again but this time for more money. There would be a target on my back for layoffs but who cares. When the axe finally falls I'll just find another company where I can coast along.
It seems pretty cut and dried to me, don't really see any drawbacks.
I don't believe there are many who would answer the call and return to Cisco, or at least I hope that there aren't many. Someone would have to be in a desperate situation to do that.
There probably aren't "many", but there are more than a few. I know several and I'm also one. I wasn't called back by a manager who laid me off, but I was called back by a manger I'd worked with.
I had a bad manager after a great manager left and this ja----s was an internal transfer to replace him and the ja----s was working to "manage" me right out of Cisco when they started LR's and he took the easy way out. A manager I'd partnered w/ on some projects affecting both teams tried to hire me but I was still in the 6-mo blackout period and then later brought me back as a contractor and converted me. He retired & a manager on the team promoted up to replace him, where I ended up getting cut due to budget cuts and I was supporting a legacy tool being phased out, so it made sense to cut me. Later, a third team was starting a project that interfaced w/ my second team & someone from my prior team recommended me and I came back for a third round.
While I don't like the way the ELT is leading the company, I do like the work/life balance, benefits, and the Cisco teams I've been part of. I can't speak to all of Cisco as I've had friends who's teams were pretty dysfunctional and toxic compared to the teams I've been on. It's been nice getting 6-mo severance to leave, At my age, it's hard to find jobs at companies where I don't have work connections to vouch for my work ethic, and I have enough contacts at Cisco that make it easy to come back for 3-5 yrs at a time at a higher wage than trying to get pay raises or promotions.
The rule is six months. If you quit or LR, you cannot come back for six months. I think quit might be 90 days; but LR is definitely six months to satisfy some legal requirement that your position was “removed”
Was not called by a manager but keep getting recruiters asking if ai want to go back. I am like thats a hard no. Why would I remarry a trainwreck of a company that I divorced. More money does not fix all the yes men and women who just want to eek by and not create waves to retire.
This is whats wrong with Cisco. If its a bad idea call it out, fight to change things but don’t worship the ELT because they make per week what you make in 6 months or longer.