Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Don't know about other BUs, but Jesse Reed in CX ordered several teams (not all apparently) under him to dispose all RBs like a month ago. RBs are "safe" in LRs not because they are somehow magically immune to being axed, but that LRs are only for people, not assets. CAPEX vs OPEX. Budget for "employing" a RB is same as a laptop or coffee machine + beans. If your BB colleagues would order additional laptops and throw coffee beans into trash daily, the would literally lessen the abilty of your boss to acquire more RBs. Going by this logic, there is completely zero point of getting rid of RBs to fulfill quotas set by ELT to "optimize" budget for BBs. If you start cooking yourself instead of ordering takeaways, it will not make your mortgage go down.

All red badges on my team were let go and notified earlier. Red badges are not safe either.

Almost all the red badges in my org were affected. They were notified the same week that the LR was announced, either that Wednesday or Thursday. Some were done that Friday, some are next week. It’s been fun transitioning their workloads when we don’t know if we’ll be here Monday. I finally told a red badge who wasn’t cut that I needed to work on other things and we can discuss Tuesday if I am still employed.

Red badges are safe. All the managers show on papers untagging red badges from SOW for the Qtr while money is already parked with vendor for future Qtrs, vendors get paid, ref badges get paid and they have insurance from their vendor companies. Next Qtr onwards red badge is back as usual. Check in supply chain, CCW and some Engg groups red badges are rottening since years. The only kickouts are the blue badges going to termination and separation. This is very frustrating from Cisco, no policies, no ethics and big time money laundering or favoritism. HR should pull the report and will see hundreds rotating around since years without discontinuation

Are new hire impacted?

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@sfw+1ut3L7IP

Thank goodness we're aren't!

Welcome to the great company called shitsco where red badges are treated like blue badges and blue badges are treated like red badges :)

Blue badges have company paid benefits (insurance, 401K, RSU's etc) that Red Badges do not have. Red is cheaper for Cisco so they will whack Blue badges first. When badges do get whacked they just dont get their contracts renewed and they just disappear -- no severance, no nothing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Ugh, people claiming DEI 🙄

When really it's more closely to corporate greed and exploiting cheap labor.

This has nothing to do with DEI. It's corporate greed. Don't get mad at people because of DEI, get mad at companies who dehumanize employees in the quest of 'maximum profits'.

Its a blatant abuse by CIsco of red badges by keep extending their contracts for years together there are people in our BU who have been there for almost 10+ years working like blue badges. As per actual terms it should be only 1 year contract. Blue badges who are the actual employees of Cisco are getting sla-ghtered like pigs in a shed every six months and replaced by red badges to the point i only see a whole bunch of red badges reporting to a manager nowadays. To all the red badges YOU ARE NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF CISCO AND STOP DEMANDING THE SAME RIGHTS.

I was red badge for years and dodged several LRs, until I was blue. From my experience you're safer as a red badge.

Red badges can be eliminated at any moment. They aren't even treated like humans at Cisco.

Who knows. In the past at every company I have worked for contractors would be let go before anyone internal. Same thing with new employees would be let go before ones with more time. Now it probably is based on DEI cr-p and what pronouns you have set in Teams.

Probably not for next week, usually red badges are done somewhere around EoFY or at next contract review.