I have absolutely no personal knowledge or special insight into this, but there is an ongoing flurry of lawsuits back and forth between HPE and the Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles (RIDMV). I am willing to bet, though, that HPE defeated... — read more
Just Quit Snowflakes!
I was laid off years ago. I picked myself up and moved on. Yes Meg S---s. Product Managers are being influenced by moronic Business weenies. Which has produced Synergy... HAHAHAHAHAHA. Meanwhile Simplivity and Nutanix are showing the way to the... — read more
Laid off with no severance
My BIL was let go in this last HPE layoff round and they are not giving him any severance. They are not even paying him for accrued vacation time. Is this even legal? He has been with HP/HPE for 15 years but is one of those who started with DEC which... — read more
HPE layoffs in Chippewa Falls
Do you have any updates on layoffs by HPE in Chippewa Falls. I've left HPE in 2016, after 11 long years with the company I've seen it flourish and then fall on its knees. Years of mismanagement, wrong strategic moves, and simply incompetent... — read more
Canada Layoffs
Canada is getting hit as of 19-jun17 Customer Service onsite engineers, sales. the few remaining teleworkers doing CSC work
Will HPE ever get proper management?
HPE will continue to struggle until major changes are made at the Sr. level. Too many Sr. managers who don't understand the business they are managing. They in turn hire others who have no clue...and so on. Hiring is based on friendships and politics... — read more
6/19 WFR tally
Anyone? Seems to have been largely overblown, no?
Another round
I and a few mates on my team just got the ax. So it looks like another big round of layoffs are hitting today.
Labor Attorney - Legal Representation in California and Arizona
I believe I was wrongly terminated by HPE. Without going into specific here I wanted to see if someone on the board had a similar legal experience and if you worked with a good labor attorney who you might be able to recommend here. Details of the... — read more
Someone's having a field day at the expense of the CEO. I'm having trust issues....to read or not to read CEO emails?
Posted in the portal..... Please be advised of an email with the subject line "URGENT-ACTION REQUIRED: DXC Technology Document To All Employees From President Mike Lawrie [June 06, 2017]". The email contains a PDF asking employees to click on a... — read more
Aruba hiring spree
Layoffs in other area, but freaking Aruba is on a cowboy hiring spree. FREAKING meggot
Severance
What is the package if an employee is wfr'd? Pay, healthcare, etc? I've heard a couple of variations- I'm in Houston.
The demise of HPE is near
It's all smoke and mirrors now at HPE. Nothing left but financial manipulation and massive self promotion. More layoffs are in planning for the upcoming holiday season (October through November). Overly complicated hardware is no longer relevant in a... — read more
Low morale
Here are some of the reasons employees, partners and customers lose trust on HPE. 1) Meg's interest is in politics not technology. 2) Executives only focus on pleasing investors not customers. 3) Multiple reorganizations caused mental stress to... — read more
Microfocus spinoff vs dxc vs hpe
Does anyone think the MF spinoff could come out as the most successful entity out of the three mentioned? Dxc is a disaster and it seems MW is getting ready to take HPE private. The Microfocus venture can't do worse than these two, can it?
Meg Whitman Managed Losing One Big Tier 1 Customer
So let's keep her on as CEO!! Way to go, Meg! Congratulations!! How did you pull that off??!!
HPE Next
From Meg's email this morning: "HPE Next will produce the long-term operating and financial blueprint for our company. It is a project on par in scope with any of the recent separations we’ve managed and is likely to determine HPE’s relevance in the... — read more
6/12 WFR
I guess many people did not need to wait till 19th, many people I know from different projects/teams from Fort Collins (10), Palo Alto (2) and some remote workers (4) got WFR today, including myself. Not sure if other teams/sites got affected, but... — read more
Interesting Web Page About H-1B, and How Obviously it is Being Abused
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/04/us/understanding-the-h-1b-visa/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlarge
June 19th- who stays, who goes?
June 19th is the rumored day for WFR's... is it going to be primarily out of one group/country? Sticking with the older employees? No one feels safe anymore... such a shame!
2500 layoffs estimate
Assuming that each employee costs approximately $100K per year, then HPE would need to layoff approximately 2500 employees to reduce costs by $250M. That would mean that one out of every 22 employees at HPE will get the ax by the second quarter.
15% getting cut
Just found out that more lay-offs are happening today in Enterprise Security products.
Mark my words
Within 1 year HPE will go private and be bought by a private equity firm or sold to a Chinese company like Lenovo.
Layoff @ Houston and PaloAlto centres
Heard massive Layoff @ Houston and PaloAlto centres , is it true ?
Information appliance
HP was first with the concept of an "information appliance" aka the modern smart phone. Joel Birnbaum as hp-labs director was the last in a long line of brilliant inventors. Carly killed that, and a bunch of other programs. When Meg got here it was... — read more
I surmise that Granny's been smoking something ...
So Granny thinks she is going to make a flourishing business selling servers in a world where things are fast moving to the Cloud. She moves the company Outlook and apps to Microsoft Cloud and thinks that she's going to be selling servers - I guess... — read more
A nail in the coffin - of Granny Meg that is ..
Granny has not make any intelligent decisions during her tenure at HP/HPE. Most of what we see is financial re-engineering to make numbers look good - underneath all this financial stuff are layoffs which anyone could have accomplished. I want Megs... — read more
Job loss not so bad if you really think about it
I just love to write about the flaws with this company. Losing your job can be very hard for anyone and me too, but we must trust in the larger power. As believers sometimes when things happen to us we wonder what good can come from this? Loaded... — read more
Server Business Plunge after Massive Diversification - Fire Meg Whitman
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-update-1-hpe-posts-steep-revenue-decline-in-key-servers-business-2017-5 Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Wednesday reported a steep fall in revenue in its biggest business that sells servers, networking and data storage... — read more
Print Pay stubs
If I m have layoff. How can print my pay stub for last year if I don't have access anymore to Hewlett Packard Company
Czechia Layoffs
Do you have any updates on plans? Please share if you have any info!
Layoffs in HPE Bangalore Unit
Around 17-20 contract employees were laid off on 26 May 2017 from HPE Server Support Team (AMS)
some Vertica details
May 1 WFRs include 10 contractors, 11 or 12 in dev & QA, 2 doc, 3 or 4 customer experience (support escalations, pre-sales, etc), 1 product manager.
Latest HPE insider trading activities
Why several executives have been selling off HPE stock?? http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/hpe/insider-trades
“Blacklist” Policy Hardens, and, Recent Layoffs in Houston
35 laid off recently in Houston… 25 direct-labor (assembly and test) on the factory floor, and 10 indirect labor at the same. In related news, some so-called “permanent” employee (as if there could be such a thing at HPE) factory direct-labor person... — read more
Last time you got a raise with HPE?
Hello I took a WFR in fall of 2015 and it was the best decision ever to leave HPE. I couldn't be happier at my new company. At the time in 2015, we never received any merit based wage increases over the previous 4 or 5 years if I remember correctly... — read more
Just wanted to share a positive piece of advice.
Retirement is better than this mess. Boy do I realize a lot about life, work and family now. Amidst the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we have lost sight of dreaming and achieving our own purpose in life. Today we have bigger houses, but... — read more
Doesn't look safe.
I was offered a position as a tech consultant for a federal customer, but all this merger layoff business has me pretty much turned off from HPE. The pay offer is very generous, but with this being my deciding factor of staying in the military or... — read more