Thread regarding GlobalFoundries layoffs

Dec 1st Meeting opinions...

I watched the meeting ( announcement) and here are my observations:

  1. I never seen TC so emotional! He was struggling to find the right words (this was in the beginning of the meeting. He continued to struggle to cover up this situation during the meeting.
  2. I don't see the point of having the CFO in this meeting. TC could read all the slides and give the same explanations. I liked how they passed by the section where they mentioned a delay in the next year promotions / raises, until someone from Burlington brought it up. Their brush off was pathetic... their words : " it only make sense to post pone it".
  3. If I am not mistaken, this was the first public meeting with the new HR head... No introduction at all, however she was struggling too in the beginning, and then she presented info that didn't bring a clear clarification of the situation...
  4. I don't have proofs but I am pretty sure that they had a pre meeting "meeting" in how to present it in a nicer way and on the same time to not say anything.
  5. Everyone was expecting a clear answer on who and how, but all we got is December 12th date. If, from the initial announcement on November, we only speculated, now we expected to see some communication and have an idea on how to proceed from now, but unfortunately wasn't the case.
  6. Personal opinion: It is strange to see soooo many layoffs on different companies across the states... Twitter thousands of people, Intel 10% which means thousands, Amazon 1% again thousands, Meta 13% again thousands, Doordash 6% twelve hundreds, and so on. My question is: aren't those layoffs mandated or pushed by the government as the FED Chair Powell repeatedly said that inflation is driven up by people making too much money and the only way to reduce it is to layoff people and get back to pre-covid salaries? As all these big companies are getting federal funds, they have to obey their requests... Just saying but it seems to be.
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Post ID: @OP+1k0K47km

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Yes, the new HR head came out clueless and totally unimpressive.

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Post ID: @2ipe+1k0K47km

New GF moto, "come for BS, stay for the severance package"

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Post ID: @2ynh+1k0K47km

Promotions and raises delayed from April to July

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Post ID: @2olq+1k0K47km

No promotions and no raises …. All delayed till further notice or ?? It’s just delayed 6 months ???

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Post ID: @1qiq+1k0K47km

How does the director of communications still have a job when she said she is not good at breaking the ice after Tom asked her to when that is her job as chief communications officer ?!

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Post ID: @1axu+1k0K47km

1hta+1k0K47km
TC ‘s lies are not enough to keep moving, so why won't he postpone some of his 1% of IPO CAP package, at oresent stock prices amounts for ~$350M USD? Be the real Leader for once!

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Post ID: @1ltz+1k0K47km

Didn’t TC say we are in a niche section of semicon business … and we are special ?? Apparently not

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Post ID: @1pvp+1k0K47km

@1van+1k0K47km
Try going to the layoff site for Intel and get clued in a little bit. Intel is the best in the industry when it comes to layoffs. This industry is all about management by layoff because the HR and management teams can never come up with any real solutions other than making people unstable by layoffs, outsourcing our jobs, and offshoring our jobs for CHEAP and UNREGULATED labor-good ol' American Greed. Whatever gets record and exponential bonus money to the corporate creeps is the way they roll.

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Post ID: @1lee+1k0K47km

Globalfoundries is where careers go to die.

Should be the GF motto

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Post ID: @1dlj+1k0K47km

@1hta+1k0K47km

Correct. The only ones I have heard laying off in our ninche of the world is us! Globalfoundries only one. In fact I know Intel, Samsung etc are hiring! Because many have left here for them!

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Post ID: @1van+1k0K47km

Let us not confuse industry layoff with our sh-t GF layoff. This is showing that TC ‘s lies are not enough to keep moving. This is rotten place and am sure GF will crash and die on its own as this pivot will create the chain reaction to sway all the remaining good ones out of GF. I know all my peers are already polishing resume and we do not care if we are in this lay off or not. We are done with this place. This is not a place to build career.

I was personally frustrated when TC and team of cowards did not answer even a single question clearly.

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Post ID: @1hta+1k0K47km

BigPivot prediction is 99 people exactly. All ded wood who were never Pivot material.

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Post ID: @1rdq+1k0K47km

Earlier press said 200mil - so expect more than one round of this is only 100mil.

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Post ID: @1sae+1k0K47km

They said in this action they are saving only one hundred million a year (and unknown if this action includes Germany which is first half of next year))

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Post ID: @1xmo+1k0K47km

800 for 2022 and expecting another 1200 in 2023.

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Post ID: @1fgx+1k0K47km

A good reference is last massive layoff in 2018. They said it is 5%, but look at how many people in Malta left. The entire Admin2 was empty. You can pick whatever chairs or monitors you like and sit anywhere close to the parking lot. The 5% is not count for any visa worker or green card holder. They are not protected by ny laws.

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Post ID: @1bal+1k0K47km

It will be over closer to 1600 after everyone decides just to leave this s@@t-show of a company and there was no real statement about how many will go from DRS.
TC definitely left door open for more job cuts if "things don't go to plan" - that really is a bitter pill we will all have to be prepared to swallow.
Also numbers don't add up, press release said 200mil in savings to shareholders - did anyone catch what number they expect to save through staffing?

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Post ID: @1hqk+1k0K47km

Why do you think over 1000?

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Post ID: @1blr+1k0K47km

agreed it will be over 1000 instead of 700-800 mentioned in media

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Post ID: @1ils+1k0K47km

This is not at all mandated by the government. I couldn’t believe how Tom was in the all hands even after practicing and not introducing the new hr person. So different than the pivot one. They really make it seem like there will likely be more layoffs

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Post ID: @1ymx+1k0K47km

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