Layoff is real folks. I was just working with my manager this morning and I've seen the list he's prepared specific to resources in the northeast USA. He's been asked to cut his staff by 25%. Mind you, he only has 10 resources (high end Architects) so, that will be 2 or 3 people max, but if the request is global, it could add up fast.
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Sh-- managers does this . Play politics..one guy was Sny pI big f***
Don't doubt it. Wichita was hit hard (50-60+ approx) in November '16, and rumors are swirling now, as I type...
Thanks, @7vsk, good advice. I thought your post deserved to be more visible, so took a liberty and copied it to a new thread. Hope you don't mind. Cheers.
Hopefully you will not be impacted. In any case, please take the time to be fully prepared just in case.
Here are my Top 10!
1) Backup all your documents, contacts, calendar from your laptop and smartphone.
2) Remove any personal documents and photos and contacts and calendar entries off your NetApp laptop.
3) Send all important NetApp emails and email addresses to your personal email address to ensure you have continued access to them.
4) You cannot send emails to any "ng" from your personal email.
5) You will lose access to all NetApp data and tools on NetApp Support Site, Salesforce, SAP, Pulse, NAI, eBI. Make sure you capture and save to your backups any data, screen-shots, metrics, charts, lists, graphs, PDFs, PowerPoint data and presentations etc..while you still have access.
6) Your mobile phone number is yours, make sure you know how to transfer it to your personal mobile provider.
7) Review all your Stock Options, RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) and ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan).
8) Use up all your comp time, HR and Payroll does not recognize comp time and you will lose it all.
9) Make sure you claim all your travel mileage, no matter how short your trip. You are classified as "remote worker" thus entitled to claim all your business travel, including your travel to and from the office, public transportation, parking, office expenses (printer paper, ink cartridges etc..).
10) Make sure you get any verbal arrangements or agreements you may have with your manager in writing asap.
In Sunnyvale?
I am writing to confirm that the layoff is confirmed to the truth, not clear from the person whom I talked to but he indicated East coast/wichita. Again NetAPP did not meet the expectation, so gotta reduce the cost. Sorry guys no indication of how much impact this time, but best of what I can tell, it is 3 to 4%max. Start looking around the market, prepare resume. NetApp ship has big hole in it, it started sinking already.
I believe that the lay-offs will surely be coming. Looking back the history of all posts about Netapp lay-offs, they all came true and this time is no exception. It is nature of the business. More people will let go if NetApp does not come up with something new. The new stuff must be distinctive from the rest.
Lay-offs aren't bad, unless the right people are being laid-off. The ones that were hired by their friends, do nothing but go to meetings and make life miserable for everyone else, those are the mother f*ckers that deserve to be laid-off.
i also worked with my manager to finalize the layoff list today.