Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

I saw only a small slice of the prior-discussed here, but I did see a boss's boss's boss, that old Compaq (under HP years later) inherited from EDS. He was and is a piece of work! Utterly smug... He declared at a big meeting for all the peons, that he has no sympathy for those who "don't pull their weight"... Lay them off! And He never acknowledged that "those who don't pull their weight" might possibly be defined by back-stabbing co-workers who go to more meetings (who get more chances to say to the boss, "I am the smartest, and my co-workers are slackers"), than those who do the bulk of the real work.

He glared smugly at me during the 2 weeks I spent as "walking dead"... He just flat-out KNEW that I was a slacker, 'cause He heard it from a Boss's Boss, who heard it from a Boss, who heard it from "co-workers" who had it in their interests, to slam me, to save their jobs!

The buy-ees bossing around those who bought them? DEC bosses did the same thing to Compaq that bought them! I heard that there was an orgy of DEC bosses promoting each other, right before Compaq buying them got finalized, so that they would be well positioned... The saying was, at Compaq, "DEC bought us with our money!"

Disagree. EDS was destroyed by HP greed under Hurd. The obsession with HP pull through ruined the platform agnostic USP that EDS had while the constant ripping out of costs killed it for good.

HP under Hurd has a lot to answer for. Ironic that he will likely pick what is left of HPE and HPI and feed it to Oracel one day. If the Chinese don't get it first.

While I agree there was a lot of churn when HP bought Compaq, I as a Compaq employee did not witness nearly as much destruction compared to when HPQ bought EDS, and created the HPE "entity". That's when it hit the iceberg. EDS Leaders, who could not manage EDS profits, were given carte blanche to manage the new HPE organization, and they killed it. Since when does the BUYER allow the BUYEE to run the show? For that I blame HP...for everything else I blame what used to be known as EDS. Which now of course, Grandma Meg is spinning off to CSC. At least she's not going with it, so anyone still left can be happy to be done with her.

Sorry, I left out Hurd, who favored sales over r&d or any other engineering.

He is just as guilty as the other 3.

The story goes that during the Compaq "merger" discussions the top brass (Carly and Capellas and a few others) had code names. Carly had gotten her undergraduate degree in ancient literature or some such. When it was all done someone looked up the references they used and the character that Capellas was named after loses his man parts at the end of the story. I have a hard time believing that this was an accident .....

And that was the beginning of the path that HPE is on now.

Sure Capellas stepped aside with a large golden handshake and Carly, Turd & Leo did serious damage. However, the middle to senior mgmt running the place was replaced overnight, post merger. Lot's of these mgrs. are still there today. Witnessed it first hand.. when I was there.. (30yr vet).

As former Compaq/HP employee (laid off last year) I understand your comments. It is true a large portion of what is HPE or HPQ now is what is left of Compaq, it is HP management that has destroyed both companies.

Part of the merger contract was that Compaq management would step aside and HP would take over.

Specifically, Michael Capellas (CPQ) was to leave the company and her royal highness Carly (HP) would take over.

Carly, Leo and the quaker oats lady Meg have squandered the heritage and capabilities of the companies.

Leo visited the Compaq campus in Houston for only a few hours 1 time and toured only a few buildings.

Meg did pretty much the same and showed an almost embarrassed disdain for everything Compaq.

It's Carly, Leo and mostly Meg that have sold us out.