So they really didn't want to hire you, but they hire you so that you will be first to be laid off, that's it.
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Yes in order to cover age discrimination in layoffs they layoff a few young workers
in sacrifice.
I new a guy that went to a new department because they had an opening. He transferred on Friday, LR'd on Tuesday. The manager had to get rid of a person and not an open slot. So, he filled it with the highest paid person that applied and he was tapped to be let go. The manager had no emotion about it because he didn't even know the guy. It was definitely a sacrificial lamb situation.
I call BS on this one. The timing is far too close to be realistic. By the time a manager knows he's going to have to let people go, job req's are frozen or require SVP approval to fill. HR and corporate legal have to review the numbers and demographics of the impacted people to ensure Cisco isn't at risk for a law suit, then HR has to draw up all the paperwork with the correct numbers and proof them for accuracy, then get them to the manager for printing before the manager gives them to the impacted worker. No way someone starts on a Friday (odd day to start, but I've never done internal transfers before) and is LR'd on Tue.
I might have believed it if you'd said the new guy was there for 3-6 months, but not 3 days.
Besides, I don't think any managers care about their existing team's that much to go through the effort involved in hiring someone just to let them go a couple of days later.
ding ding ding
goal is to get rid of old expensive and often complacent in favor of young cheap and energetic
I new a guy that went to a new department because they had an opening. He transferred on Friday, LR'd on Tuesday. The manager had to get rid of a person and not an open slot. So, he filled it with the highest paid person that applied and he was tapped to be let go. The manager had no emotion about it because he didn't even know the guy. It was definitely a sacrificial lamb situation.
goal is to get rid of old expensive and often complacent in favor of young cheap and energetic
yes. that way they keep their team intact. It doesn't work well for the person who walked into the new opportunity.
Layoffs are all about saving money (in any company). So they will let go those old timers who are now making lots of money and hire college graduates who make around $80K.
So they really didn't want to hire you, but they hire you so that you will be first to be laid off, that's it.
Don't you mean "So they only wanted to hire you to be a sacrificial lamb?" I've read posts where someone said that happened, but more likely they're hiring you to come in and learn someone else's role so they can kick them to the curb and dump their responsibilities on you. You'll be paid less than they were, you'll be younger and have less experience. You'll stay around to be abused long enough to pickup (hopefully valuable) experience and then you'll quit for a better paying job and Cisco will have to back fill you with someone who won't have had your "on the job training" from the guy you replaced.
is your wish
yep