Cisco has too many layers of fat.
As a technical company, daily tasks are run by glorified secretaries AKA the project managers, copy and paste your work and package in an email and blast it out to different groups including upper management. About 1 in 20 project managers in Cisco knows what they are talking about
I knew I was in trouble when a manager asked me a new employee to right the onboarding documentation and workflow.
Shouldn’t that be the managers role not the newest person on the team?
Both pages might be about rumors, but I would say that there is a stark contrast between them. I stumbled upon this site in 2016 amidst office rumors of significant layoffs coming up. The first thread that I read was that layoffs would happen in August of that year, and soon after someone even leaked the exact layoff date and numbers. Ever since then, I successfully navigated through not only that LR, but also around a dozen others,thanks to the info shared on this platform.
> New to this site, but lots truth
That is a typical first post on "Truth Social". Welcome to thelayoff.com
The more I think about it more the I believe that's accurate: "Truth Social" and thelayoff.com/cisco are both spreading made up stories and rumors. People here and over there believe and thumb up such postings.
Post from TheLayoff.com
They didn't start out with no life. Some roles take more and more of your time, and eventually the life you had walks away because you are never there.
Those people stay because they do not take time to prepare to make a move. They're committed to the company, but the company does not reciprocate.
@xjg+1pwIMu8e They have no life.
Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family,
Choose a fckng big television
Choose washing machines, cars,
Why are the people who work late and on weekends are the same that always say “when I quit”. They sound so miserable and chained to a job.
New to this site, but lots truth
That is a typical first post on "Truth Social". Welcome to thelayoff.com
Congratulations! You have gotten your first insight into the fact that you are in The Matrix and not reality as you previously believed it to be!
You can go one of two ways from here. The first option is to play the game (and I'll admit it really is a fun game) while planning your jailbreak. The second option is to be a slave, get married to a wife who openly despises you, have children who have zero respect for you, a mortgage that is on the verge of breaking you, all the bells and whistles to keep up with the Joneses while you age five years for every rotation around the sun. In the future you can be one of the guys on this site who's always complaining about nobody appreciating MUH HARD WORK and then dying of a massive heart attack by age 60 while your wife cashes out on that life insurance policy which is unusually high.
Your project manager is always on vacation because there is no difference he/she is there or not, his contribution means nothing that's why he is always away on vacations.. Cisco should cut these project managers loose, and send them pink slips
I wouldn’t know, our project manager is always on vacation.
The layers of fat are necessary for "empire building" and to ensure the inner circle has authority without accountability. There are legit reasons for the inefficiency.
and they lay off the ones that actually do know what they are doing.
Why? I have no idea. This issue is also noted in many other roles. The incompetent get to stay, the good ones get the boot.