I've only been at Intel VPG for a few years. It truly seemed like a GPTW and people seemed mostly happy. Then first there was the 2015 "headcount reduction", the cancelling of the shuttle in Folsom, and now ACT which has completely decimated VPG. Most of the people I worked with are gone or soon to be. These are people I liked and we all did great things for this company. I was proud to work my butt off everyday for Intel. Now everyone remaining are like zombies. Morale is in the toilet and no one cares. After 4+ months the dust still has not settled. I'm an optimist but I honestly don't see much future.
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@JjMkQ1S-1ryf. Not a buggy whip team at all--you'd be amazed what team that is if I told you and how central to high-level operational interests it apparently still is and how visible. But yes, not a team that supports the bottom line and I think the team will eventually be absorbed into something else. The contraction actually started with the 2015 stealth layoffs and only got worse with ACT. Used to be a much bigger team with a whole lot of influence--and independence--inside Intel. But increasingly less so over the last couple of years. Maybe ACT was simply the final indicator of what is going on.
I know this sounds d--k-ish but maybe you were the rockstar of a team that made buggy whips. Doesn't matter if you're the best at making things that no one wants l.
It is amazing what a difference a year makes. Last year this time, I was going on my first sabbatical and attaining my 10-year service anniversary. Came back in January 2016 to a fun welcome back, great colleagues, a manager who seemed to appreciate my work and called me 'the rock of the team,' and a general feeling of well-being and security. Four months later, April 25, my world was turned upside down by ACT. As the foster mom tells Benjamin Button in the movie, "you never know what's comin' at ya." Still working on recovery and trying to figure out what to do next.
Management, at all levels, created these issues. Never met such immoral managers ad those at Intel. They prove it everyday. If they actually were moral, they would leave these positions since they are basically just following the instructions of their mgmt without challenge. They know what they are doing to their employees is wrong, yet they continue to fo it. Obviously, there jobs are more important to them than morality. Hopefully, these people will eventually feel the same sting they administered to us. Let them be unemployed and looking for a job in a horrendous economy. Not many companies want to hire sleazebag, ex-Intel management who spent their days carrying out orders from the evil higher level mgrs. Funny that as they rid themselves of the talented, experienced people, they have unknowledgeable RCGs and H1Bs to replace. Hope they fail and regret all the transgressions.
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I also had a brilliant & amazingly gifted manager well above me say he would take the package too, had he been offered. I'm clearly no longer there but I'm hearing many still tell me they are not happy inside Intel. Makes me want to cry if I think of it too much. But I'm on to much greener pastures where the company wants to pour money into training me where Intel, with all their sorry STEM talk, wouldn't agree to any degree I wanted to pursue...not that I would have had the time with the slave labor they were getting out of salaried workers. Anyways, I just care about my co-workers left behind who are still working in deplorable conditions. There isn't enough money that makes up for the demoralization imposed there and the lack of time to really enjoy said money...I gladly took a paycut to have my life back. I'm sorry to my children who didn't get me when they needed me most -- time to do my best to make up for that lost time. Lesson learned the very hard way...
I also had a brilliant & amazingly gifted manager well above me say he would take the package too had he been offered. I'm clearly no longer there but I'm heading many still tell mr they are not happy inside Intel. Makes me want to cry if I think of it too much. But I'm on to much greener pastures where the company wants to pour money into training me where Intel, with all their sorry STEM talk, wouldn't agree to any degree I wanted to pursue...not that I would have haf the time with the slave labor they were getting out of salaried workers. Anyways, I just care about my co-workers left behind who are still working in deplorable conditions. There isn't enough money that makes up for the demoralization imposed there and the kack of tone to really enjoy said money...I gladly took a paycut to have my life back. I'm sorry to my children who didn't get me when they needed me most -- time to do my best to make up for that lost time. Lesson learned the very hard way...
@uvx - I'm an ERPer and when I told my manager I was taking it, he said "Take me with you". Unfortunately he has several more years before he can leave or he'd have left!
Lol. Can only imagine that VPG will be the new screen setting for next year's episodes of The Walking Dead. I guess BK likes creating new TV shows.
VPG got completely destroyed by ACT between ERPs, VSPs, ISPs, internal transfers and people who just got tired of the BS and quit. I've seen few groups with the org-level impact they had at all grades and levels. Wonder how they are even capable of functioning after so many people left.
I've had three Chinese managers And they were horrible. They were all from China as opposed to US born and raised.
Agreed and it makes me very sad also. I'm a VSP'er and I'm sorry I left my amazing co-workers, most of whom wanted to leave with me including the best managers I ever had, to take up the incredible slack of losing almost 20% of our team with already very full workloads as it was. I mourn the company I once dedicated my life to and the future I'd hoped to have had with the amazing people I got to share my talents with. How about we turn this site into more of a tribute to/for them; for a place for them to come for solace rather than bitterness? Maybe we should all start our own company using our severances....lol. pipe-dreams I know but fun to dream none-the-less. :D
You just had to bring in the Indians into the conversation again, didn't you?
IMO, the management destroyed a great company. Hired too many H1Bs, overtime most of them rose up to become managers. They are the worst managers anyone could ever have.
Of course, not all Indians are bad managers, but All bad managers are Indian for sure. That's all.
More ACT coming and even the zombies will get hit next round.
Worked hard, loved the peers /work and couldn't complain about benefits but being proud of the company is hard with the current situation. Looks still like a premier tech company to the dummies and outsiders but for those in the know it is so rotten inside, LOL
Worked hard, loved the peers and couldn't complain about benefits but being proud of the company is hard with the current situation. Looks still like a premier tech company but it is so rotten inside, LOL