Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Cisco can no longer innovate and is just managing its inevitable decline into the dustbin of tech industry history. At some point, the San Jose Tech Museum will simply have an AGS+ router on display noting that Cisco once played a major role in creation and growth of the Internet.

Because there is no saving Cisco, several Cisco executives have decided that they should conduct social experiments with the Cisco employee base as a way to entertain themselves. If you don't want to be a lab animal, look for a new place to work.

"...Low IQ employees..."

Keep being outraged.

Here's an idea. Go to a company that pays you better.

We'll measure the number low IQ employees who think they're high IQ by the number of down votes for an actual solution to their complaints.

Spot on:

"...Low IQ employees love to get enraged over social issues while their pay check doesn't keep with inflation..."

All the complainers are doing is drinking the kool-aid, not getting additional compensation; while upper-upper management harvest the bonuses and stock options the Cisco masses once took part in.

Keep being outraged. It is a cheap payoff for the Execs to develop a plan for. Maybe another Michelle presentation is in order.

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Sounds like a word salad from Meghan and Harry.

If a podcast about underrepresented communities divides employees it's well worth it for the company. Low IQ employees love to get enraged over social issues while their pay check doesn't keep with inflation.

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"Manufactured chaos allows malignant narcissists to keep you on the hamster wheel of trying to figure out their intentions and second-guessing yourself. They try to train you to question what you did wrong rather than holding them accountable for their actions. They convince you that setting boundaries or expressing discomfort with their disturbing antics is the problem, rather than their problematic behavior."

An introduction to psychology class is more valuable than business or technical skills at Cisco. As you climb the ladder at Cisco, the amount of undiagnosed mental illness is rather fascinating.

Spot on. The name of the Cisco game is pass the buck down the line. The minute you get signed up as "the" contact for anything remotely defined as a deliverable, you then become "the" target for a flock of mostly worthless buzzards to pick over your carcass until you are LR'd for not doing the job right.

Get rid of most of the lot of anyone above a Manager, and the company would be much better.

Too late.

Exactly my experience. Then it’s passed back up the chain, but only after backdelegating it couple of times. When it’s back on VP level, you’ll get the sh-t for doing it wrong

Being a Network company, CISCO is obligated to keep an OSI-reference 7 layers model ~_~

CX is where it’s at. Become an SDA and just kick back.

Apple have three levels of management. No employee is more than three levels of reporting from Tim Cook. At Cisco you can be ten levels away from Chuck. Ridiculous.

Well all the tech companies have plenty of positions for DEI officers.