Thread regarding GlobalFoundries layoffs

It doesn't matter what facility you work at its a dead-end company that goes on and on about a career ladder, but you can't advance anywhere.

See you in Albany, they also hired all the laid off engineers.

"I recommend that you stop taking things personally. In the rank order of life's priorities, work should be somewhere around 3 o 4. It's a means to an end, not the primary focus of life."

Sigh, people who know less and are less competent are making more than you.
You should take it personally. They are sc--wing you. Even high class ho----s get paid.
The primary focus of life should not be sh-----g, eating, and sleeping. Any animal can do that.

Globalfoundries is the best place to work!

Who would have thought the new HR lead could be any worse than the one replaced. GFS employee to HR ratio is ridiculously high. How many former IBM employees had never seen an HR employee during their tenure at IBM.

@1jt

True. But it’s also significantly better at other places. Make no mistake about GLobalfoundries is the bottom of the barrel. Don’t get to excited that one big name has joined us. We were here first and for a lot longer

@1hz Someone who finally gets it. It is similar to GF or even worse in many other places including the big name ones. Trust me on this.

If you don't like it, seek a better job. As someone who has been around the block a few times I can say that things are rarely better elsewhere. All companies will try and get the most out of you for as little pay as they can get away with.

I recommend that you stop taking things personally. In the rank order of life's priorities, work should be somewhere around 3 o 4. It's a means to an end, not the primary focus of life.

This isn't to diminish what you feel or the frustrations, just a perspective. If you live to work you'll never achieve the mental health you seek.

Gf has always been a toxic environment. They have poor managers and employees that don't work or can't work due to incompetence. There answer is to layoff the good people, keep the cr-p and hire low pay employees. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Quiet quit and get a new job. Tell no one.
Instead of a two week notice ask for a severance skipping your upline and ask HR directly. Do it in writing. Something like this one below... use ai if you want a good one:
"Good evening/morning HR,
Does GF offer an early retirement or severance package to someone who i
Would consider stepping away from the company?" Thank you, signed etc.
Then wait and watch. Say nothing to your upline.

Give them 2 or three days to discuss it and you might be surprised at what happens. When they ask why, say your mental health is more important than this job and nothing else. Worst case they say no. Best case you walk away with a check and you were quitting anyways.
Don't bother the two week notice they wouldn't give you two weeks if they fired you.
Have fun 👍

Report to Howard Lutnick about the chips act.

@w2 the only problem is that @OP seems to be going through some stuff. Maybe they are burned out. Depending on the type of person they are quiet quitting might not help their mental state.

'revenge quitting'
if you quit does GF have to pay severance
it seems to benefit them not you

you should try quiet quitting
that saves you blood and effort while minimizing their success
i believe slaves used to behave that way
they did just enough to survive but no more

It’s honestly shocking how much of a clown show GF has become. Ever since TB showed up in 2018, it’s been a straight-up disaster—shifting focus from actual technology to just being a bottom-of-the-barrel manufacturing company. They’re not even pretending to innovate anymore, just cutting costs wherever possible, shifting jobs to low-cost locations, and abandoning anything remotely resembling new technology. And let’s be real—calling 22FDX-pro+ or 12LPP+ new tech is laughable. That’s just 14LP from Samsung with a new name slapped on it. Nothing but smoke and mirrors.

And the CTO? Completely brain-dead. That entire leadership team has zero clue what they’re doing—just stumbling around, constantly changing the mission, while all the actual A+ talent ran for the hills. Now, all that’s left is a bunch of bootlickers and yes-men who only know how to su-k up instead of actually pushing the company forward.

But the absolute peak of clownery has to be TB posting on LinkedIn about "collaborating with MIT to bring AI." AI for what?! 28SLP from 14 years ago?! 40LP?! What a joke. Someone should ask him if AI is supposed to bring their 2009-era nodes back to life because that’s the only thing GF has to offer. This company is nothing but a scam, and I genuinely feel sorry for anyone still stuck here.

While I agree re: the toxicity of GF (my perspective is F8 only) - I think the pressure people are feeling these days is simply that of an enterprise underwater financially. There is a great deal of "song and dance" for Wall St. that any public company must do to keep investors from selling - it's about managing perception.

Our reality is that we don't have customers so we don't have $. The things you're seeing at all the fabs are resultant of increased focus on maintaining the illusion of success. Cut costs so that sh---y revenue still "looks good" for the street (the margin that the talking heads always refer to is the difference between how much we make and how much it costs us to make it). That's all it is. It su-ks to be caught up in it but here we are. The stress comes from a bunch of people that A) don't want to do their jobs or B) don't know how to do their jobs or C) just tired of being in savings mode for the last 5 years - being expected to do their jobs and being looked at more closely (jobs in this case = execute cost saving projects rapidly, while also transferring technologies that may never pan out). It's a sh---y time to be here, for sure - but given that the only constant is change, things are bound to evolve.

Re: the other comment about employee rights eroding and no one caring - 100% true - they don't care, and it's foolish to expect them to - you are the only one that cares about your situation.

Some insight - every company prioritizes profits over people. It only seems like they don't when finances improve YoY. When the opposite occurs you see the true meaning behind any enterprise in a capitalist eco. Make more ($) or die.

In the eyes of the board, a "healthy workplace" is a profitable one. The deal is not supposed to benefit the employee. All employee energy is meant to enrich the ownership.

You don't have to like it, but complaining about the natural order of things is an exercise in futility.

I completely agree.. there are significant mental health issues in the workplace. They keep promoting the most toxic managers and using their puppets to pressure employees into working more. If you voice any concerns, they resort to micromanagement though, to be fair, they micromanage regardless.

I’m leaving too, and I love the term revenge quitting. it’s definitely a trend these days. Employee rights are being eroded, and no one seems to care about us