I couldn’t sleep at night if I had thrown my employees under the bus like this. I guess that’s why he makes the big bucks...silences the conscience.
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Whole lot of jobs have been trafficked to India and that trend will continue. Corporate greed knows no bounds.
I don’t think Antonio is a bad person. He just makes decisions that I don’t agree on at all.... Wow this sounds like me describing the US President for the last 20 years. Digressing...
I’ve met Antonio in person, shook his hand, had a talk with him, and he’s really down to Earth.
Having said that, I think every decision he makes during this covid situation is going to be well thought out. Is it pretty scummy that he decided to layoff thousands and then decide to acquire a company for this much money? Yes, it really is. But I don’t think he did this to give us a middle finger for those who got laid off. It’s just an extremely questionable decision especially when he did tell us that we are planning to save every dollar in our bank account. I would agree that this would be against HPE’s mission of focusing on our employees.
I do think he was looking for ways to start generating more cash for the company. I can’t fault him for doing so. It was either buy this company who has reported good earnings during the covid situation or do nothing and just continue to drain our money. The latter could be blamed on poor management not taking the initiative to take action. Sure sales are down and supply chain is in a huge bind... but is there an effort to understand how other companies are selling their products? Do we lack competitive analysis? What does HPE lack?
This acquisition is just a desperate move and it’s rather reactionary. It’ll be interesting how Aruba will react to this... Introducing: The Aruba Silver Peak chimera Ethernet switch by HPE!
Poor Antonio, make bad decisions that completely disrupt others lives but who cares he will make even more money. Would be hard for me to justify such decisions and sleep well at night.
Folks, for all fairness he got elected to become CEO while the company already faced shrinking market shares and on top the departure of Meg was already in the midst.
The decision was to take an internal candidate and this is how he got to the role.
Under "normal conditions" I doubt he would have been the person to get the seat.
Looking at the situation since he took over (court cases, turbulences in the markets, spin-off software business and this year COVID) he can only keep the status quo and trying to reduce the damage. To kick out a CEO is very often brutally expensive...
Questions he might face at night could be the fact that a lucrative package will be part of his KPIs and a further spin-off, partial/full sale of the company, etc could get highly rewarded?
Meg personally also got more money from selling the software BU versus keeping it all and trying to make it a success.
WTF
Hit in Houston not hot. Thanks autocorrect. Although it is hot!!
Some saying Houston hit. Some saying no layoffs in Houston yet. Which Depts have been hot in Houston? It really stinks if Houston was really hot bc there are awesome and very talented people in Houston. Antonio s—s!
He’s got a lot of them