Every one from 1999 to taking the ER in 2020. I wonder why I put myself through that. Cisco was OK but there are much better companies to work for where senior managers don't come and go like cheap ho----s.
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All of them. And, yes, I was here for the first one.
Been LR'ed 4 times but I keep coming back. I am addicted to Cisco.
I can't live with Cisco. I know a dude who has been thru LR 6 times.
Easy money, Easy Job. Go ahead, LR me, I will be back. Again!
@1ipe+1hgnSWeA I'm so sorry to hear that.
All of them! I joined in 1998.
@rcn+1hgnSWeA, you missed the first big one of 2011 that was called a Workforce Reduction, or WFR. It followed immediately after the voluntary early retirement offer of 2011.
There was another large one somewhere between '98 and '03 IIRC. I was leaving a defense contractor in Lewisville, TX and my manager took a job with Cisco working out of the Richardson campus. Sometime between '98 and '03, Cisco closed the entire BU they were part of and let everyone in that BU go, but it wasn't a company wide reduction.
All of them, too many to count. I have mastered the art of beating LRs, been here since 1995 straight out of college here in the golden state.
Only one, but it’s been going on continuously for years.
Started in 2012. So at least 4 major LRs. The first big one I remember was summer of 2013.