The "official" view is: "Qualcomm has never been found to have unlawfully discriminated against any of our employees." They aren't doing anything "illegal" because it isn't a violation of FLSA to make exempt employees work more than 40 hours per week without overtime. And also, "almost everyone passes their PIPs." You guys want to see a class action, you have to provide more information than rants.
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Class Action Law Suits against Qualcomm are coming. Blatant abuse of State and Federal Labor Laws to hide real number of layoffs with Phony PIPS and laughable Performance Review abuses!
kudos to layoff.com. fvck eap, the truth will set you free !!
Q deserves to be sued the same Disney is being sued; reading the posts from this site shows the huge gap between Q image from the outside and what really happens internally
Venting on this forum is more therapeutic than talking to EAP psychologist.
eap sucks do does hr! And both are not hot
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I love "blanket statements"! They are the answer to every question! They are the favorite response of HR and ER people when they don't want to address a problem.
Just give EAP a chance to help prior to your suicide
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All HR women are no brain hot Chicks
The only purpose of EAP program at Qualcomm is that when the next person commits suicide at a Qualcomm office, HR and Employee Relations could claim that they had offered psychological help through EAP, but the deceased employee did not take it, and therefore Qualcomm does not have any legal liability for what has happened.
HR claims that engineers who jumped from Qualcomm buildings on 2/18/2010 and 6/11/2012 both had "family problems". HR (ER) denies it had anything to do with the "sweatshop" working conditions at Q. The first case was all over the media and can easily be found today on the Internet. However, HR kept the second one under wraps. They paid $4M to their families to keep them quiet.
The majority of employee problems are caused by the abusive work environment at Qualcomm. This can not be resolved by visiting any professional in the Employee Assistance Program. It can only be resolved by a constructive conversation between employee, an HR representative, and management. This is impossible at Qualcomm because it will only result in a retaliation against the employee. The HR's policy in resolving employee-manager conflicts is currently this:
If employee is at fault, get rid of employee.
If manager is at fault, get rid of employee and manager.
They get rid of the employee in either case because they don't want to make any admission of guilt to employee and expose Qualcomm to potential lawsuits. The effect of this is that employees refrain from approaching HR for help and you end up with the current rotten culture that Qualcomm has.