I’ll never forgot the amount of psychopaths that worked at HPE
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@3kr Gartner was an SE manager from Juniper. Known for turning colleagues in to HR even though he's a goof.
@3h6 can someone tell me who this Dr. Gartner is?
@33e Well, that's too bad. But now you're free to try something else. One really does become an institutionalized bureaucrat working at a large corp., no matter what skills you came in with.
Which is funny, because you get hired for specialized knowledge and skills, which are then largely wasted for n years, and then you get laid off because the work you were doing lost its value because your management was only there to float.
I bet 90% of layoffs are the direct result of passive clueless middle management holding on to their own job by floating for as long as they can. In the meantime, the value evaporates, their people are replaced by lesser bureaucrats in India, and now the lesser bureaucrat are replaced in their dozens by AI.
Better to be a shareholder than a worker.
I was laid off too
@OP yeap, I got hit on Monday 10/26.
@OP so, what was the verdict?
@2e3 bs have you seen how weak our EC is? Obviously if it was best of best they wouldn’t be there, all politics dummy
@12w Only the lesser performers
You can poke them by saying you are sick, if they said some random name which most likely HR it will be a layoff.
Same thing happened to me. Manager sent 1:1 week prior, read a script, then I was gone.
DEI-based sinecures conduce to psychotic psychopathy.
I had the exact same experience. A surprise 1:1 on a Monday morning is most likely a guaranteed layoff and the following Friday is last day.
@10s Excerpt from Gartner's expense report: "73 Hennessy Double = $3,276.75"
@15x I would really enjoy it to be let go from this HoPEless place.
@12w It’s a large machine processing numbers, and yours is coming up. No HR sociopath is going to consider what those two or three weeks of anxiety mean to the human. It simply easier to work in batches... and creates more time to gossip and watch cat videos.
Same here… have a 1:1 on the calendar for the 26th in the morning. What’s the deal? Is anyone else getting these invites?
There is widespread spending problems across sales and marketing
@10b Management looks at his expense reports, gets even more afraid of him, hits approve.
@ym no one is worse than the great Dr. Gartner. Can we start calling HR on him? Who is looking at his expense reports?
@y5 my boss had this weird habit of copying people she was jealous of, their personality, the way they talked, what they were into, and even the choices they made. At the same time, she’d tear them down behind them with lies and gaslighting, and watching was really disturbing. She’s worse than Gartner, and still part of HPE.
@wc Dr. Gartner's mgmt is afraid of him.
It will be hard to reverse the decision, layoff decisions are agreed upon by the VP and Director.
unfotunately you are. Work extra hard till then,maybe they will have second thoughts
@ne . . . you do realize that Dr. Gartner came from JNPR, right?
@n9 better talent than what we have in tx and in europe
Sooooo many from Juniper need to go. It's really obvious now.
@jv - Greek life chad from marketing is Mr tough guy now
@b3+1m4gmk6t0 and look at how good things have gone for HPE since they unloaded you
No of course not,you are being right sized
@ay but but but I thought we were family?
Probably but seems odd they’d put it on your calendar two weeks in advance.
Yep. This week, next, and all this month. I personally know some who have been WFR'd. HPE needs to manage costs, is what they will say. HPE shares up 3x, sales through the roof for foreseeable future. 2+2=5.
I was laid-off the Monday (8:00 am) following Thanksgiving.
Bad time of year, more likely than not you're part of a WFR. I was WFR'd about the same time 4 years ago but with a different scenario. There were 2 Monday meetings, one right after the other and I was the only person from my group in the first meeting. I got on the Teams call and we were told all of the people on the call were WFR'd, there would be no questions and we would be contacted via mail/email for further info. End of call... At least you have a more sympathetic meeting than I had. Sorry to hear this is happening to you.
last year, I will laid off mon, oct 27. i knew others laid off the following day