Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

@4gbb

Interesting suggestion. I'm not exactly crying under my table at performance review time at my new company, but after getting the "Cisco treatment" I've certainly become a very paranoid person in that respect.

I actually feel like I'm doing something wrong when I have a bit of downtime at work, because at Cisco I felt like I had to appear to be working all the time.

Cisco seems to like cutting the throats of good hard working employees as well as those employees over 50 years old with their yearly layoffs. Seems the lazy good for nothing employees and foreign workers are kept employed while many skilled hard workering employees are given the boot. Do the big wigs at Cisco still get their huge bonuses after they lay off thousands of workers? I suppose destroying a persons job and benefits through layoffs helps the bottom line look good each year. Sickening.

I think some shrink should look into PTSD type of symptoms with current and LR'd empoyees. I am sure, cisco's environment is a good breeding ground for PTSD disorders, with useless-management whipping engineers to achieve an impossible goal, while LR'g to show profit.

You're onto something with the "BU meetings" thing. I've always seen some of the "shout in a crowded room" behavior in Cisco, although not all of the loud mouths are useless. But some of the recent stuff coming out of the CMO and CTO organizations is bizarre. There is a cabal of "visionaries" running around with brain fart "innovations" which they shout down the corridors of power, distracting all the attention (and resources) from real problems and real products. I've just been dumped one of these doozies. It will take me two months of completely non-productive time to convince all the newly energized execs that this idea is completely technologically and commercially bogus. By then, the evangelists will be onto a new religion. Of course, this shows that these people are all positive innovative thinkers and I'm the bad guy for calling BS on stupidity.

Call me crazy but being a sheeple was never part of my plan. How sad to see so many sheeples remain and so many talented people LRd. For some reason, Chuck and the ELT want millennials. I have nothing against them - but for them to replace those who have years of experience AND who are up to speed on the latest tech and business principles? Good luck with that, Chuck.

Anymore these days... anyone who remains at Cisco is suspect of being a sheeple. Sheeples are deadwood. And being a sheeple is NOT going to build an innovative culture. Cisco is doomed.

The best meetings are the entire BU meetings. You see all the lazy Sh!ts talk up a storm and all of the sudden they start providing all different kinds of input it's very funny to watch these incompetent sons of turdz bllshet the higher management when in day to day operations they do little to nothing but when a manager is near by they are all smiles and pretend to look busy. Pathetic.

@2bvq: Good plan. But what happens when you age out or your BU gets the ax, and you find that all your loafing means you no longer have any marketable skills? Or, if you're lucky, you wind up with a new position at a functional company where your manager doesn't give a damn if you think her jokes are funny and is probably too busy getting stuff done to even make jokes, and she expects the same of you?

@1hil Solution is easy. Relax, don't do much work and make sure you brown-nose by saying everything is super awesome and laughing at your boss's jokes. That's what I do and have quite a nice life.

@blw: sorry, I agree with you, but I cant accept that, cisco is doing and LR based on Age.. not Merit. All the brown-nosers are still in cisco , doing nothing, and a few others who worked hard, were let go. I agree, it is a good thing, coz market is good for job seekers.

It's a business man not a charity, deal with it and move on, u got paid and did not work for free a--holes.

I echo the OP comments. Got riffed in September after 20+ years of hard work, dodging the outsourcing and LR bullets, making trips to difficult customer sites all over the world at a moment's notice even almost right up to the day I got LR'ed. What gratitude!

Do a search for the people you knew @ Cisco, on LinkedIn. I bet you find 1/2 are already gone. Scary.