a couple of managers will be reporting to people in India. Lots of reorgs and layoffs in California and a lot of reorgs in storage.

They have no idea of what's coming... If someone from SimpliVity is reading this post... PLEASE, LEAVE ASAP! Save yourself!!!

Word is that layoffs are now determined by current revenue. No assumption of growth. Layoffs in Software as well as areas that are part of the future HPE.

So, we started 2017 with our vacation re-charged with 3, 4, or 5 weeks vacation. Come 1 April, do you think that newco with let you keep all of that to be consumed by 31 December (regardless of newco's fiscal year)? I don't know. Seems unlikely... — read more 

You may have noticed that 1) Meg was not invited to Trump Tower for discussions. 2) Meg supported Hillary. You can bet HP/HPE/NewCo will not be receiving government business or government renewals. You can also bet that any American businesses are... — read more 

If you do....just know that when you're part of NewCo you will have lost that benefit as well. Welcome soon to NewCo!

I'm not a Trump fan. I didnt even vote for him. BUT the one thing I have high hopes for is his stance against outsourcing. There is strong indication that trade wars with China and Mexico will pressure companies to come back as Trump is already... — read more 

EG Houston HW GBU... Sales got the green light to do fire sales in order to meet the q-end numbers. we're having a huge WW mess right now as we're not able to make all those deliveries on time. Customers (small & big) are becoming really pissed... — read more 

Class of March 2016 here... I had a scheduled 1x1 on a Thursday which was moved to the following Monday morning (the invite was changed 2 weeks prior, which means mgr knew for 2 weeks). The week before I was laid off, 2 other people were WFRd and mgr... — read more 

WFR started as a quarterly event, but has been consistently on a monthly tick for the past year or so. Justified as reductions for the HP/HPE split, ES spin off, Software divestiture, or whatever Meg dreams up this month. Whatever it takes to move... — read more 

HPE is on a monthly WFR schedule now to prepare for the divestiture of the ES (services) division. I am in management and since 2012, my best estimation is that the company has WFR'd (workforce reduction) around 100,000 people either outright or by... — read more 

What is first contact WFR like? Did it start with a call? An unexpected meeting? Is it always on Monday? Was it a contact by HR?

So, before XMas I had to shortlist people to let go on our offshore dev teams, no less than 20% mandatory. So we did, delivering HPE XMas gift to many people in Bangalore, Manila and Cairo. We were betting on when somebody would do the same exercise... — read more 

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about not being given enough at work. Everyone else around me seems like they are swamped with work and way too busy. Boredom is killing me but my manager doesn't have any more work for me. So, I try to look busy. I... — read more 

Access to documents and without too much detail, HUGE Americas Software employee purge, starting in a few weeks and into mid February. Hit hard is support employees including people managers and executives. Start job search.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/12/27/hewlett-packards-split-have-massive-layoffs-paid-off/#539e74055729

Micro Focus is an inside sales organization. There is No Way the HPE sales organization is going over whole. This is especially true of support roles like HR positions.

I was WFR'd approximately 2 months ago. Severance is 60 days pay (on target incentive) and at the end of 60 days you have to sign a form that basically makes it impossible for HPE to ever hire you back again. For signing the form and returning it... — read more 

We have all heard it before at an all employee meeting that Meg's goal is that hpe will become a successful leaner hybrid it company in 3-5 yrs and will be leaner and stronger than ever. Is there a future in servers at hpe? Is there a future in... — read more 

I can understand old employees still trying to survive there (more than 10 years with vested $$$ interests), but there's no way I can understand why anyone with less than 5 yrs in the Company (or being 30 years or younger) would sacrifice their... — read more 

WFR class of Q4 2013 here... I've been working for a big HPE reseller for almost 2.5 years now. What the heck is going on there? They have been failing almost every committed delivery dates on orders placed for EMEA and AMS requirements since August... — read more 

http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=HPE®ion=USA&culture=en_US

I was just taking a gander at an unrelated class-action lawsuit in pacermonitor.com, and decided to search for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE has quite a few discrimination lawsuits on their hands. Looks like most of the plaintiffs come from the... — read more 

Yes, it was a pretty dumb violation of the SBC on my behalf. There was no verbal or written warning. They went straight to fire me after an internal investigation. There was no WFR package. There was nothing... Just the last paycheck. I was in the... — read more 

I have a close friend that works in HR in Houston. At least in the Americas there won't be additional layoffs announcements until 1/13/2017 (yes, I know it's Friday, the 13th, but this is no joke). They'll do it a Friday this time because Monday is... — read more 

We're not alone... http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/news/companies/christmas-layoffs/index.html?source=linkedin

There are a few software leaders (Neal) who were placed in positions with HPE having full knowledge the role is completely temporary. I am privy to specific information which aligns current executives to Micro Focus positions and it was known when... — read more 

many products has been closed in last months, seems like more would be closed, micro focus keeps only old mature products active, any new products are doomed, the future not seems bright for hp software.

It is cursed place, get out of there as soon as possible. New year 2017 will be remembered as the demise of once a great company. Everybody is worried about their job in hpe. no matter SVP, VP , director , bottomline software engineer. fake mails for... — read more 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/laid-off-carnival-worker-hires-lawyer-after-hes-forced-to-train-foreign-replacement/ar-AAlBL7Y?li=BBnb4R7 Carnival Cruise is laying off its entire IT department and forcing its workers to train their foreign... — read more 

The Australian Taxation Office has called in service provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise to investigate its two-day outage. http://www.zdnet.com/article/ato-outage-result-of-world-first-hpe-storage-issue/

I can't help but look at these speakers' credentials on linked-in. I should have gotten an MBA. I'd be making a ton of money by running my mouth at these meetings. I looked at these people's calendars and they're all "busy for the next 8 hours". Busy... — read more 

Finally we get the proof of what people have been saying all along, that Granny is an incompetent CEO with zero leadership skills. This lady is a bean counter, spreadsheet driven lady hog who cannot inspire people one bit. Her formula was simple, if... — read more 

Meg looked like sh-- at today's all hands meeting. She had this orange vest on, gained a lot of weight, and honestly... Hillary looks far more attractive. That's how bad Meg looked today. All of them up on stage tried to "dress hip" and failed... — read more 

I just completed a year at HPE. I had my annual review last week and it was "driving". The truth is I don't do crap at work. I haven't learned much, not too much available for me to do, not too many opportunities to learn, HPE is tight with money... — read more