The younger generation has seen us suffer and the best talent has decided they won’t put up with a company who implements constant layoffs. What is Cisco going to do to mitigate the fact that our new hires are starting to be dogshit? The young talent has been going elsewhere for a while but seems like it’s getting even worse now.
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Can I go into the office without getting called a f-g or dy-e? Do people treat me like a normal person even if I have a same-s-x partner? Those are the only things I care about other than doing meaningful work and making a living.
Amen.
Innovation is key for customer retention and attraction so whomever said it does not matter is part of the problem. If you focus on customer experience and not some sh---y CX tagline nonsense but actually working to improve their product experience then you will see growth.
On the flip side if you stop focusing on your core verticals and stop improving, I mean really improving not just ticking a box for some poorly implemented features to be able to say we have this, then what you are seeing happen to Cisco will follow in Kodak or Xerox's footsteps into obscurity.
@eqv+1hgAThvO I’m also young and I think people in their 40s, 50s, 60s would be surprised to know how many of us feel this way. Don’t give a sh-t about them waving their pride flag. Can I go into the office without getting called a f-g or dy-e? Do people treat me like a normal person even if I have a same-s-x partner? Those are the only things I care about other than doing meaningful work and making a living. “We love our LGBTQ+ employees!!” Do you really love ANY of your employees if you’re laying them off? Ha.
Y'all talk about innovation like it's some sort of end-all be-all. Who cares about innovation? Corporations care about profit. Don't naively assume innovation translates to profit. Tech history is littered with great innovations that never found a market.
Repetitive layoffs is a sign of a managed decline. We are selling the equivalent of Xerox copy machines in the year 2000. The copy machine business didn't go away but it was never lucrative again.
Bottom line is that repetitive layoffs are a symptom of poor management. Period...
Not many publicly traded companies innovate. All Google innovations of the last 15 years were acquisitions. The Corporate America model is to create a prestigious brand, hire employees to keep the lights on, and acquire start-ups with growth potential.
Roles in 2022
- Are you a good storyteller? They create and sell the corporate brand
- Are you an obedient drone? They keep the lights on and complain on message boards
- Are you a high-performer? They work at innovative start-ups that are acquired by corporations
The double whammy are the long term go-getter employees who were LR'd years ago, are still aggressively in the business.
But we are now at competitors and customers, still pushing ourselves in technology.
Cisco taught me a whole bunch.
How to be a good engineer.
How to work hard as a team.
How to migrate Cisco infrastructure to cloud services and other equipment providers.
We can either work for you, or work against you.
A once great market leading company. Now a woke zombie. All for what?
Woketards do not innovate. Woketards only follow. A company of followers will not innovate.
When you're not growing your business, you don't need to pay for top talent. You just need some people to keep the lights on.