You know things are getting messy when I’m being asked to take on tasks I’ve never done before and wasn’t trained for, all on top of my regular work. I said no and told them if they want to fire me for it, go for it. I don't even care anymore. My manager was not happy, but I’m still here for now, so there's that.
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I watched as people that had cultural similarities with the manager and director that did very little get promoted to Staff and then Staff 2
You can say all of them are Indian. Everybody knows about this but now they are being trimmed by not renewing the H1B.
Corporate America are getting greedy. That’s why they need to be taxed more to create more jobs and better for the economy. …wait. …….
@vdt+1veBTVcX - Great poetic writing. You will be next J. K. Rowling for sure.
The situation is beyond repair. They fired all the workers and kept all the talking heads.
So, all we have is talk talk talk. No work being done.
This has always been the case it seems, when I started at VMware I was essentially thrown into a meat grinder, being assigned support to a critical infrastructure component and nearly worked myself to death since it was a steaming hot mess thrown together by something like 12 people all doing their own thing and then left.
There were numerous critical security issues due to libraries that were so old that they were EOL. I had no help and it took sometime since I was new but I got it done
However, there was absolutely 0 recognition for that, I watched as people that had cultural similarities with the manager and director that did very little get promoted to Staff and then Staff 2, the justifications given for the promotions were absolutely ridiculous, I won't mention them here, while I was getting pressured to make a pig fly so to speak and was treated as if I should consider myself lucky for having a job.
Unfortunately, being new at the company I figured that given time it would get better boy was I wrong.
I am sure it was not like that in all groups but for the ones I was in, promotions / recognition at the company had very little to do with what you did or how hard you worked, it was all about how well you were able to BS , or if you grew up in the same region/province as who you reported to etc.
Rats abandoning a sinking ship.
Rats on the Run
In the dark of night, beneath the moon’s cold light, The ship creaks and groans, bound for its watery plight. Rats scurry and scramble, sensing the doom, In a dance with the shadows, they flee the gloom.
With whispers and squeals, they make their escape, Overboard they leap, with a splash and a scrape. No loyalty to the vessel that brought them this far, In the heart of the night, under a sky full of stars.
They’ve weathered the storms, they’ve braved the high seas, But now they desert, as the ship takes its knees. Into the waves, they disappear without a trace, A testament to survival, in this merciless race.
For when the ship starts to sink, and all hope is thin, The rats know the time to abandon, to swim. They heed the call of the ocean’s cold grip, Leaving the brave and the bold on the ship.
The beatings will continue until 3x investment returns are achieved.
The situation is beyond repair. They fired all the workers and kept all the talking heads. So, all we have is talk talk talk. No work being done.
Broadcom is sinking with VMware. 90 Billion is a lot of money to waste on a software misadventure. Hock has driven Broadcom to its grave along with himself. This is the end.
Layoffs and attrition are the combination that fuels the profitability of a declining business model at VMware. HT will continue to favor a low-cost operating approach to the Broadcom Software collection of legacy apps. Meanwhile, your inept manager is likely just waiting for retirement.
The place continues to have several layers of overpaid clueless do nothing managers that have insulated themselves from layoffs by cutting their staff to the bone. Are you paying attention Hock?! You need more workers and less mediocre overpaid managers to make the place function. And that RTO plan, it has removed some of the highest performing individual contributors in favor of mouth breathers who just happen to be in an office.
The beatings will continue until 3x investment returns are achieved.
We are getting this in VCF too. "cross training" is just a way to assigning us more work with fewer people. Who's fault is it that we have too few people, hock?