with seemingly more former fab7 people filling positions of influence at fab8, does anyone see the same issues from 2011-2014? like culture clashes between AMD and Chartered people (and some early IBM defectors)? shouting and shaming in meetings? unreasonable workloads?
just wondering if mistakes from the "start up" phase are being repeated (and at what cost)
@hohl+1j4Lydlc More like he doesn't care whether she is pregnant or not, his IPO bonus is worth more than her and her unborn's lives.
I wouldn’t think he yelled at her because she was pregnant. Someone’s pregnancy status is nobody’s business.
Umm hello? Were you under the rock for 3 years? The Chartered culture was back in 2019. Pidar Benyon yelling at a heavily pregnant woman in DOM is just one example I remember
Regarding IBM… Seems like since IBM came in (TC), Company is now public, GF now reporting actual profits and is expanding.. Global-Floundaries in now GlobalFoundries. Thanks Tom and IBM’rs
@dkju+1j4Lydlc: The IBM employees who were foisted on us tend to be entitled, highly arrogant, and extremely lazy. They were the people who drove their company into the ground, and we're supposed to take them seriously?
@dpwb+1j4Lydlc
HR business partner only did a 1:1 5 years after I joined as the attrition rate was high for a year. I purposely said something not critical but pretended to be concerned. Once I reached my desk (maybe 2 minutes from the HR office), my manager repeated that particular "concern" to me and warned me not to believe the HR. This was in Fab7 (had another similar incident in Fab2).
3 months later, the HR BP left the company after telling us GF is the best place to be. 🙄
why are former IBM , AMD , Chartered ppl a problem ??? they bring experiences and insight .. there were a few bad hats ... that made ppl felt little .. but the time it took to get them removed .. was ridiculous .. HR does sh-t on these ....
@ydlc
Interesting! I didn't know there is a designated person or team (in GF I suppose) that has access to full data. That means GF knows who gave what responses. This survey is an utterly useless exercise and even harmful for employees.
@cjos that's an important lesson for everyone to learn regardless of where they work. HR serves the employer, not the employee.
Fab8 actually used to have an employee relations team (led by PN). She was a great advocate, and went to bat for employees when their managers wouldn't or couldn't. She transitioned into a different role in like 2015/2016 though. I know a handful of people that benefitted from actions she took.
I was also curious about the anonymity of the surveys. The landing page of the survey says it's anonymous, but if you read the fine print there's a designated person or team that has access to the full data. They can determine whether to fully disclose it or not. What was one of the questions on the survey? "Do you feel like you can speak your mind?" Heh.
Agreed. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is very seedy sketchy place.
HR are in cahoots with management. I personally know from experience HR ratted me out to my mgt about a grievance I had. Really it wasn’t a grievance but I was seeking out hard copies of my personal employment related information ask to remain anonymous and that my questions remain anonymous - they did not. Within a week my mgr, my 2nd line mgr and my 3rd line mgr all individually contacted to meet with me 1x1. All of them said the same thing - that I crossed a line asking for this information, etc. In fact I asked two of them for it and they pointed me to contact HR. I was shocked that it was such a big deal. I asked my mgrs why is this a problem? What line did I cross? They didn’t have a response. Not one of them, but they were definitely upset with me. It was also heavily implied I was close to some sort of legal violation for asking for my own personal information?! Wtf? I had to remind all three of them that actually I am legally entitled to such information - what’s the problem?
Bottom line. Don’t trust HR. They are not on our side, but they really want us to believe that they are. They aren’t…
Also I want warn everyone on here about the surveys. I know multiple people that have gotten in trouble for giving input on those surveys. While they are portrayed and presented as being Anonymous- they are not. Which I think most know but I am surprised by how many don’t. It’s another HR trick or being snakes. It never states that it is Anonymous even though they are dressed up to appear like they are. I know more then 3 people who got on probation or disciplinary watch due to their inputs. DONT TRUST HR.
@doyourpart
Multiple employees reported se-ual harrassment about a certain manager that was only removed from the manager role but given another job role that provides near zero value to the company. He was told to no longer work around females and not be allowed 1:1s with them alone. This individual still works there last I checked. Several of the females who made complaints no longer work here or have moved departments.
Ethics and GF are not cohesive, far from it actually.
When I left in spring there was something like 80+ se-ual harassment cases ongoing.
That is just one matter ethics should have been on top of, imagine the other matters that are not as disclosed.
IBM is less of a problem, Chartered legacy is what's tanking the company
If there is yelling and shaming you are part of the problem for failing to report it to the external ethics line.
www.globalfoundries.ethicspoint.com
"This webpage is hosted on EthicsPoint's secure servers and is not part of the GlobalFoundries website or intranet."
They are all pariahs and undesirables from other companies not just ibm. Their respective parent companies all made lists of those who are worth keeping and those who were worthless. And that is how GLOBALFOUNDRIES management and leadership was born.
But couldn’t the parent companies repurpose them into a different role? Sure they could of and they did for those who were worth saving and holding on too. But not our managers.
Yes and a big reason for ibm paying for GF to take them and sites off their books is because of the poor leadership, business acumen and management on all levels.
Hahaha And guess what? Who are the managers and leaders at GF since the accusation?? Same guys who crashed the blue car into a wall. Now they got the keys to an orange one.
GFer here. GF is extremely disorganized and barely functions. It’s very disfunctional and barely works. It’s amazing anything actually gets done at all. A lot of miscommunication as well. And we are just talking about making product and supplying our customers here. Not including all these borderline criminal treatment of employees.
There is a reason why IBM gave their chip making plants to GF, with money. Fishkill never made a profit where Burlington did. Former IBMers complain because results are demanded out of them for their pay level, justifiably so. It’s not because GF is that disorganized; it’s because proof of effort is demanded, in a respectable amount of time, like any other company.
“Thinking Days” are a thing of the past.
Agree - I think most at GF do not know any better because they have not experienced any better. They think this is normal work environment. It is not. That the career growth and how leadership and management run is normal - again is it not.
If they were to go anywhere else they would be d-mbfounded by how much better it really is for employees. Treated better, logical business decisions - actual real growth and development. Being told the truth and not mislead or manipulated.
It would be like those videos of animals held in captivity their entire lives and then get released into wild and see grass for the first time. Absolute bewilderment and jubilation to the point that they are shell shocked.
I don’t know about that. I think most former ibmers complain and whine because they know things at GLOBALFOUNDRIES are bad and wrong. They went from being treated decent to the sh-t show that GLOBALFOUNDRIES is. Literally everything at GF is a few steps down especially how employees are treated. Those who weren’t ibm or was Globalfoundries from get go have no idea that this place is not normal.
I think there is also a feeling amoungst them that they are unwanted rejects. GLOBALFOUNDRIES unfortunately is where the rejects go to work. It’s where careers go to die. Those who have no better choice.
People who were never IBMers run circles around former IBM employees. Globalfoundries IBMers are some of the laziest coworkers, with the exception of TC and a few others. All the former IBMers do is complain and whine about how the good ole days were better without putting in real effort to make things better, today.
I’m Former IBM. Global is amateur hour in comparison. Been a good ride so far though, Global paid me more.. Next stop, Micron or Intel… 😊
All these leadership, managers and positions of influence at GLOBALFOUNDRIES are filled by the rejects of AMD, Charter and IBM. They are the ones that these companies didn’t want. Many came due to a whole department moving over but a lot because their original company thought they were incompetent and wanted to unload them. I always thought it was strange that many of them maintained their position and rank during acquisitions and transitions.
Them and their policies and guidance is why GLOBALFOUNDRIES is floundering. So yes it is repeating again and really it never ended. The chip shortage hype helped cover it up a little. And even during that phase GLOBALFOUNDRIES didn’t capitalize or maximize on that event. We trip over our own feet at every turn and it’s almost all because of these managers and leaders incompetence.