Thread regarding VMware layoffs

Dell, SilverLake, etc do not care about your morale. You are as human as a checker on a checkerboard for their purposes.

At the end of the day you are alone responsible for your own (professional) future.

all they care about is the big pay day for themselves....everything they say and show to employees are all fake

VMware is going to fade away. Low morale, mass exodus, customers holding back their orders, resellers focusing on the competition. It's all coming home. Magoo and Betsy can stick it.

@rky+1pnNLHit Majority of people are checked-out already.

Accurate. If this deal doesn’t happen, people are going to be checked out, and simply “stick it to the man” as they collect paychecks while looking for another job or doing nothing.

MD and SL want their money.

They know full well the ramifications of this deal failing, but to use an aviation term, they exceeded V1 a long time ago.

The plane is either going to take off, or burn at the end of the runway.

and…still have full access to all corporate systems

Let the Wikileaks campaign begin

How much is VMware's revenue from China? If it is above SMAR threshold then there is no way it can be acquired by any other company. Broadcom go-plan will need to be executed with less ambition, change of top level management and continue as an independent company . More focus on on-prem and less muti-cloud, hybrird-cloud BS. There is market and business case for on-prem and public cloud repatriation. Hyperspace public cloud cost increase and lock-ins do exist and there is value in VMware.

"Those who didn’t get offers had no support or communication and are rightfully
upset.…and…still have full access to all corporate systems - huge security risk that could
further damage the company, its customers and shareholders."

This is the part that is highly concerning, and where other organizations going through similar M&A or restructuring have seen inisder threats turn into sensitive data leakage at the very least, and a full cyber incident in the worst case.

If the deal does not happen, Michael Dell will search for another investor. He will be able to pull this off, as he and Silver Lake will hold the majority stake. As such, not only will employees consider something similar again, but until this happens, people who were planning to leave will be gone. Those who wanted to leave with a package will be demotivated, and those who wanted to stay for growth opportunities will have shattered morale, etc.

It will be a mess if the acquisition does not close, and I highly doubt VMware will recover in the short term from that.

We need the close, so we can have closure.

My manager thinks VMware will bounce back and seems to be in denial. It has resulted in him make decisions I don't trust because I don't believe he is accounting for the situation.

Which upsets me even more because I am not blind and have been around long enough remember how the Dell acquisition of EMC went. There was fear then, people didn't know how much Michael Dell was going to mess up the management of VMware and our culture. Customers worrying if they used HP hardware instead of Dell and things like that. Rumors about Dell causing VMware products to be removed, but Dell EMC said they would be hands off and basically were.

What is happening now is way worse. Communication is much worse.

This is a winless situation. VMware's tech is aging and most of its products other than vSphere are not viable long term. VMware cannot survive on it's own any longer without equally major actions like what Broadcom was planning. Maybe if Broadcom fails a better buyer will show up. But more likely it will be many buyers picking up pieces of VMware. Look at the leadership. Do you think they can save anything? VMware is done one way or the other.

VMware will be fine, if the merger falls apart, sure it will take a hit for a while, but will be fine, many customers are in a pause mode, trying to figure out alternatives and such.

Customers can finally put the alternatives for a rest and resume future planning with their trusted solutions.

However, on the employees side, some of the Broadcom's intended plans must be applied by VMware themself in-order to make progress.

As for Mr. He-l, Well it su-ks for him, I hope he sell of a significant portion of his share and give up majority control, or the rest of the activists and institution investors force him to do so, so that we are never in this position again or pay a massive dividend, only because he said so.

As for VMware, Revenues are fine, profit making business, sure we spend more on few unnecessary thing, could be cut and get back to business, "Focus on the innovation" not "Focus on the Main Thing", whatever that main thing means.

Situation is strikingly messed up; whoever thought of this weird email offer system did a disaster. Made all employees nervous, angry and unsettled. Those who didn’t get offers had no support or communication and are rightfully upset.…and…still have full access to all corporate systems - huge security risk that could further damage the company, its customers and shareholders. To recover will be challenging. A case study of how not to do things.

True that!