Thread regarding HP (Hewlett-Packard) layoffs

The Houston servers are still there in Houston, never moved. Yes I work with them remotely and have done so for the past 6 years. I am also in contact with the techs that maintain them as well as the other engineers that guide their usage. The servers are not legacy but run most of the supplier data for ordering parts as well as the repair data for techs to access the ACD.

"You don't work at HP do you? I work with the servers that are in Texas. They are not shut down nor have they been migrated."

Yes, I do. The only primary data centers left are in Plano and the new-ish Austin Colo. Any workloads in the legacy Houston DC was moved to that Austin Colo or the cloud.

If you are talking about and compute that is in the energy drive office, that should be constrained to local R&D and not any production apps.

"The Houston data center was shut down earlier this year - and it was never in an HPI facility in the first place."

You don't work at HP do you? I work with the servers that are in Texas. They are not shut down nor have they been migrated.

The Houston data center was shut down earlier this year - and it was never in an HPI facility in the first place.

We are not talking about a few rooms of servers but whole buildings full of them.

I personally would like to see them moved out of Texas because of the poor infrastructure that Texas has when it comes to backup systems. That is not happening. I think Texas offers tax incentives for HP to stay.

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"Rumor has it that HPI wants to slowly shed Houston"

Not going to happen. That is where the main servers are located."

Servers can be moved.

"Rumor has it that HPI wants to slowly shed Houston"

Not going to happen. That is where the main servers are located.

Rumor has it that HPI wants to slowly shed Houston. It just takes some finesse. The buildings can be off'ed pretty easily at a profit now.

"Seems like the majority of layoffs are happening to FTEs as opposed to CWs"

The CW's were let go quietly about 2 months ago. I am the last CW in my department and we had 4. Another section in the same building let 90% of their CW's go.

I’ve heard about 400 impacted in Houston. I don’t think there are even 2,000 people that work from Houston so it’s a huge cut.

Seems like the majority of layoffs are happening to FTEs as opposed to CWs.

Share the same sentiments as you op! Good riddance. But 2 weeks?! how’d you get that lol? I got 1 week for every yr (min 11 weeks paid)

After lay-off comes raise, better position and peace-of-mind. I have been through all this. You will be in better hands.
I have gone through this path: HPI-HPE->DXC->" represents a lay-off.

@liy

Commercial personal systems is who got hit hard this week... Particularly CMIT. Even people in TDC are getting let go surprisingly. That's where I was until I got my call on Monday.

Sorry to hear about the downsizing but it was bound to happen since a lot of companies are returning to the office and laptops are not selling well.
Last year, I managed to escape to a much more stable position at a better company. I have helped a couple of my former HP coworkers find positions. My new employer really likes people with hardware and software skills and they pay accordingly.
I did buy a new HP laptop and it is a surprisingly good piece of hardware for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, I had to throw my HP printer in the trash and bought a new EPSON. I’m not sure who’s in charge of the HP printer division but they need to be raked over the coals for their lousy software, drivers, firmware, and printer cartridges that hold a minuscule amount of ink.

What groups got hit this week? I heard of some last week

"I predict that HP won't be in business 5 years from now. Printer sales are in the toilet because no one does physical printing to paper anymore. And due to Cloud applications, customers no longer need to purchase super powerful PCs or laptops anymore. "

While I agree with most of what you are saying, the main issue was the Instant Ink and HP+ gimmicks to force customers use HP toners and cartridge. Epson is doing extremely well with ink tank printers that can't be manipulated to force customers to use a certain type of toner or cartridge. The people who created Instant Ink at HP should be fired.

I predict that HP won't be in business 5 years from now. Printer sales are in the toilet because no one does physical printing to paper anymore. And due to Cloud applications, customers no longer need to purchase super powerful PCs or laptops anymore. And who actually NEEDS a laptop having a leather exterior, seriously?

Buffett saw the writing on the wall. The death of HP is coming, so get out when you can.

Sorry to hear this, but the whole Warren Buffett news giving up on HP is going to lead to additional layoffs. Buffett owned 15% of HP and just sold about 5%. Even Warren got the memo that HP is failing. HP also has a huge debt load which got severely worse under the current CEO, and the company now has negative debt to equity with rising interest rates.

P.S. There are apparently some HR shills on this board who downvote anyone who even mentions published negative news about HP.

Yep, I got my call today too and I'm in Spring. This layoff doesn't sting too bad compared to when I got laid off during COVID. My organization is going to have a rough future. The PC industry is in for a very rough ride for the next two or three years.

Got the typical corporate R's, "reduction, reorganization, reallocation, reevaluation" within the same call with my (ex) manager and that my layoff was "not performance based". What really stinks is that I thought I was improving this year. I was following my (ex) manager's strategy for the team and I was carrying it pretty hard. I was a fool to think I was safe.

I was watching a video recently that was talking about how smartphones haven't changed all that much since the first generation iPhone. Sure, it's faster and there's camera improvements but if you compare what was before the smartphone, the telephone's technology was growing very rapidly... The point I'm trying to make here is that this is very likely true for laptops, desktops, displays, and printers. What more can you really do? I think in the near future, we're going to get away from these systems and all the computing that we will have will be wearable, something HP will either shrink their entire company to do or they won't do this at all and the company will fail. But even if HP decides to make wearable technology, they are going to have to compete with Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, all of which are already doing this. Truthfully, even Dell might even enter this field as well.

The future is going to be majorly software, not hardware. My colleague put it very well, "HP is at the burden of their suppliers."

Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to collect my $15k+ in severance, stocks, and potentially my bonus because there is a stipulation where anyone who gets laid off during Q4, they may be eligible for getting their year-end bonus.