HPE: “We will treat all those transitions with the highest level of care and compassion.”
Translation:
We lead with empathy and compassion…
just kidding.
We ghost you, then act like you’re the one who did something wrong.
Nothing says “highest level of care” like a sudden calendar invite titled “Quick Sync” followed by radio silence and a severance PDF.
Anyone else getting the classic HPE special?
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@1ax I don't think the Dr. works here anymore. Too much Henny someone called HR.
@1dj We get it, ok. You hate women. Now go fu-k off you incel tw-t.
Creepy dudes in this company. Elevating women to management roles, who do absolutely nothing significant but get elevated higher than everyone else. They are immune from accountability and have a talent for being manipulative and very nasty.
@1at
Right, Antonio Neri. Appreciate him now. It could be worse.
@175 posted this multiple times here and it gets deleted - be careful around the Dr. Has HR on speed dial.
Antonio's job is to placate shareholders while keeping the ship running. Layoffs are nothing new at HPE it's been part of business for the last 20 plus years. He has a much better track record than his predecessors. We all should be grateful that he is at the helm of our ship. .
Thought Antonio was the guy who understood the future of work. Turns out he just understood how to shrink the headcount.
@15m Gartner a goon.
@122 Gartner wouldn't even take Dr. Gartner back. No sure where he went.
@10x Well, you know by now. Do tell. (My thought, though, is not on a Friday. No layoff.)
@101 Like Dr. Gartner?
Hopefully Dr. Gartner gets it this round. Does he even work here anymore?
Antonio and the toxic among them do not appreciate the fruit of the labor that was sown.
Consider Zacchaeus in the Holy Gospel: the sycamore tree he climbed was not of his own planting. Another had set it in the ground, watered it, and caused it to grow, so that in the appointed time a man might rise upon it to behold Our Lord.
Likewise, there are those who now feast upon the fruit of the $60 stocks, yet the leadership shows no gratitude. They are glad to cast aside the very laborers whose toil brought the increase.
But God is not mocked.
@10x if someone else is invited then most likely
i just had a one on one with my manager a day ago and i just got a 30 min meeting on my calendar for tomorrow which ive never got a last minute 1 on 1 before
i assume it’s a layoff? or maybe PIP?
any thoughts?
@104 He can retire off tripling the stock or get hired as CEO of any company in the world. Credit where credit is due.
stock is up $62, antonio's next BOLD move is to lay more people off, sell businss units get stock to $80, then retire before AI crash and leave the mess for Rami to clean up, while he retires in europe
rami will be sourrounded by yes corporate speak not get anything done or competent that toni left behind
soo many mean and nasty nasty and crazy women at hpe
Neri really said “diversity” then yeeted the people who built the results so he could install others by gender and fund them with the first group’s value. Not empowerment, just a soft parasitic handoff in progress clothing.
When a company says they care about you, they don’t.
When a company claims to care about climate change, and then requires office attendance, they are being manipulative.
When a company claims to have a social conscious, but cuts back on monetary matches, it is performative.
So, keep that in mind as they talk about AI allowing employees to perform other tasks. Sure, tasks that don’t involve paying you.
The only thing they care about is making themselves richer at everyone else’s expense. Take whatever you can get and do not look back.
Stock at all-time highs.
Congratulations to the corporate cowards and political as-----ns who underpaid everyone, underappreciated them, stole the credit, made the entire win about yourselves, then laid off the families who actually built it.
Enjoy the dirty money. You earned every drop of it the only way you know how.
@OP - I got mine in December 2025. Haven't worked since.
the future is european + women running every role. if you’re a dude just starting out here you’re cooked, i just found that out working here.
@hy IDK if real. Does anyone know?
@g2 do not say unless you mean it, unless it is real
HQ is straight performance. Folks up there talking about work all day, looking busy, and not getting a thing done, while the people who actually work get laid off.
@f7 HPE Marketing org has a bunch of Larpers, and pretending to enjoy fake stuff. Marketers LinkedIn is Stage 5 cringe.
@e9 I don't think Gartner works here anymore.
Compassion doesn't scale. And people are so burned out at the rate of change that they can't even fake it any more. Money is the only thing left. Get all you can and move quickly on.
After being impacted by the recent changes in Marketing at HPE, I was struck by something that stayed with me.
Not once did I hear the words “we care about you and your family.”
Just a carefully worded HR script… followed by a PDF.
That moment clarified a lot for me.
I’m genuinely glad I’ve moved on. There’s a growing pattern of deeply concerning leadership behaviors at HPE that deserve far more scrutiny than they’re currently receiving. When Antonio is finally held accountable, the Board would be wise to treat it as the organizational emergency it is.
Sometimes the most valuable career lesson is realizing which environments no longer deserve your energy.
Onward.
Sound like Dr. Gartner - somethin he would do.
SE manager was like "we care about you and your family". Then came the PDF.