Is this a sign Vmware is in trouble?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/13/three_senior_vmware_executives_leave/
Also, EU may block the deal. A good news?
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Only the hostages are buying VMware. Net new business is no where to be found. VMware is dead.
Our BU had a travel budged of $1500. Yes. The team. Not per person. Team. Including bottom feeders like myself and director / VP
Wow. You said it. All of it has been ruined.
Of course. This is part of what happens with a drawn out acquisition. We have orgs with underwater levels of morale. People are leaving, the unknowns drive people crazy and of course VMW mgmt wasnt great before this (unless you were swimming in the DEI soup, then you were loved).
Heck, here is an example of id--ts in charge:
my BU didn't increase the Travel budget for 2022 from 2021. Litereally. PANDEMIC levels in 2021and then after the first qtr or 2022 cut all non-billable travel (except for you know execs flying to india multiple times, etc) because we are out of travel money.
You could see our mgmt are awful at setting a business up for success. Not putting money in the budget for travel because you didn't spend much during a pandemic? oh yeah, these are forward thinkers.
That is one of a thousand examples of weak sauce leaders we have here.
Employee retention is in the toilet
CEO out touting how many new hires we've had this year? What? Where I can't replace people and have had more reqs frozen then dropped than I have ever seen anywhere.
Backend systems that take weeks and months to get price quotes to customers... WEEKS AND MONTHS and it is never fixed... "because its hard"
Customer Support that says all the right things in press releases but ranks terribly everywhere else.
Shall I continue?
And you expect these same poor execs to manage a company through an acquisition that looks like an invasion from a foreign entity? They are barely keeping the ship afloat.