People were let go in Houston and in Fort Collins. It was a 2 day event. 100 people in Houston. Extra HR were brought in to facilitate the action. Not aware how many in FC were affected. Just informed our team avoided it for now. All people types were affected. People are shocked at the talent that was let go.
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Whats with the "You are lying" talk? 100 was the confirmed head count in Houston. I work in CCm7 and down by the smoking area there were at least 4 people standing there with only 2 days left to be employed. They were saying that most of the people are older, more highly salaried employees. One guy has worked at this campus for 29 years and he was 6 months shy of getting retirement pay. For all his service he only gets the severance and shown to the door.
People were saying there is gonna be a class action lawsuit by a group of WFR'ed people for age discrimination. It's very real in Houston. If you "haven't heard anything" then maybe you are not in the affected areas of the layoffs or the people you are asking don't know anything either
Employees are an expense plain and simple.<<
Curious how many hundreds of thousands to millions each 20 to 25 year employee produced for the corporation over this period? Good, productive, longtime employees are assets....not liabilities. The narrative needs to change.
Confirming actual layoffs is easy. Just find an email with a massive distribution list and look at all the people with white boxes next to their name. If there's one thing HR is good at, it's cleaning people out quick and efficiently.
@3nch you're talking to offshore HR shills, anyone that actually works in Houston would know what's going on.
It's so funny how people won't think twice about whining and complaining how disconnected everything is at HP/HPE... but for some reason the same people refuse to believe a thing like layoffs can happen without it being known company-wide. Numerous times I had gone searching for someone I've worked with in the past all to find they left HPE months ago. In the case of WFRs, I suppose ignorance is bliss... but I can CONFIRM that people were let go in Fort Collins this week. As someone who was also WFR'd recently, I can assure it is not something one feels inclined to shout from the mountaintops... nobody sends out company-wide emails, nobody publicizes their reckoning, and nobody sounds the alarm every time somebody in their group is lost. Tell me how often you've been at your desk when somebody walks into your cube and says, "so and so got laid off a few weeks ago," and you find yourself saying, "really? I had no idea." Things happen quietly throughout this company all the time and as much as you'd like to think, a shockwave of gossip doesn't go roaring through your cubicle every time somebody is WFR'd. The burden of proof is exactly that- a burden... and no one is obligated to tell you anything.
There WAS a layoff at HPE in Houston, last day is 12/16 for many people. I know several long-timers who were affected. Experts in their field and have been there since Compaq. Managers were required to lay off a percentage of their team, and were told that they couldn't pick the lowest-salaried folks.
@2tot, Don't kid yourself.. You are "expendable" .. Don't matter how many HP kudos you've got.. Employees are an expense plain and simple. Can't believe people still think they're unreplaceable.
Let's dispense with the notion that those laid off from HP in the past years were poor performers. I was let go in September 2001 when Carly put the hammer down. 5 months later an HP manager called me out of the blue and offered me a contract position (my former manager had recommended me). A year and a half later I accepted an offer from the same manager for a full time position. Yes - there is often a subset of people let go that are known to be poor performers but there have always been excellent people let go as well.
Layoffs in Houston this week confirmed, CCM7. 5 cut in a group of less than 20. Probably more in other groups. After all the cuts and turmoil over the past few years, there are no poor performers or expendable people to cut, other than Meg, Leo, Hurd and Carly.
@1otr, I don't doubt there have been lots of layoffs in Houston during the past months. My challenge to the OP is that there were not 100 layoffs in Houston done this week (this past Monday & Tuesday) as he said. That is simply not true. No "mass" layoffs were done here this week.I can guarantee that.
Houston was absolutely hit...and will continue to be so until mid 2017...those on this board who don't know anyone laid off are either lying, ignoring, or are absolutely in a bubble. I know of 6 personally who are now networking to find a job.
One or two, maybe, but definitively not "100 people" in Houston this week, as the OP originally said... That is a lie.
Think poorly connected.. oh it happened I know two people that got laid off. Someone is lying about the layoffs. It happened! The person saying it didn't is the troll. Maybe HR..what a mess.
Houston got hit because I've heard from someone that got WFR'd.
Confirmed. No mass layoffs in Houston this week.
I've been asking around here today (Houston) in multiple areas. No one has heard anything. This one is fake. Sorry, bro, but you are lying (at least as it relates to Houston).
Someone posts about a layoff, some ignorant or HR plants claim it's trolling and a few days later you read about it on the Register/local news/dozens of people tweeting (I'm sure it's all fake and everything is peachy at HPE)
The CFO just said they needed to offshore another 10% of the US workforce. Or is the CFO trolling now too?
Hint: wait two weeks until they are actually out the door.
Several teams in Houston were hit on Mon and today (Tues). If you work in Houston and have not heard anything then you are either on vacation or poorly connected.
Either way, it doesn't matter. It's just business.
Me neither have heard anything going on in Houston this week. It would be almost impossible to stop the rumors across all the areas if this indeed would have been true. Sorry, OP. I don't believe you. I can speak only for Houston, though. I don't know anyone in FC.
The OP, me, is talking directly of yesterday and today. We got called into a quick meeting by our mgr, 90 minutes ago, and were told. People we know were let go. Keep in mind, no one is required to yell out they will be gone in 2 weeks.
Yes, it WAS BS after all... Lol!
The OP didn't say the layoffs were this week... He makes reference to a "2 day event". We all know Houston has been beaten badly during the past months.
NOT TRUE (at least in Houston). Something like this (between today & yesterday) would have been in the mouth of everyone, and that was definitively not the case. I'm not sure about the intention of the OP, but I can guarantee that if 100 people would have been laid off this week in Houston, I would have known by now.
FT Collins....USPS account(s)?
This week? Which teams? I work in Houston and I haven't heard anything...