Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Not sure why anybody would want Abe back. Personally, one of the few things I think that Cisco got right was to get rid of Abe.

I was too low down to know what really went on, but I always had the impression that Abe was always a figure head, and the real power lay elsewhere. It was when the real leader/leaders had enough or were forced to leave that things fell apart.

To be impacted or not to be impacted, that is the question

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The constant changes of arbitrary requirements

Or to take a package in the sea of LRs

And by accepting end them. Absence, termination

No more, and by absence to say we end the thousand natural bugs

That code is heir to. 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. Absence - termination

Perchance to face new challenges: ay there's the rub!

For in that absence of termination what challenges may come

When we have returned our company car,

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time

The customer's wrong, the rollback of features,

The pangs of falling tenants, the pipeline's delay,

The insolence of management, and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy tasks,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a pink slip? Who would these re-orgs bear

To pull and commit to a weary repository,

But that the dread of something after release -

The unemployed country from whose bourn

No employee returns - puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those executives we have

Than fly to others we know not of?

Thus benefits and compensation do make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of innovation

Is sicklied over with the pale cast of process,

And MFs of great priority and moment

With this regard their features turn to regressions

And lose the name of functionality - Soft you now!

The fair NDS - lost in thy acquisition

Be all my sins remembered

well said OP. See you on the other side.

xNDS CF colleague here. Wishing you well in Jerusalem and good luck for tomorrow. Many happy memories of trips over there. There are many very good people there and in France that I've worked with over the years. Shame it's all come to this. Wish we had a Batman style searchlight that we could use to summon Abe to come and sort this mess out. He would never have screwed it up the way that Cisco have. What a bunch of amateurs.

+1

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be g--,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

+1

It was a good ride while it lasted. RIP NNDS