Neri promised transitions with “the highest level of care and compassion,” but for many of us it was a scripted call, severance number, a portal, and then your own team ghosting you like you did something wrong.
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@20b You have to be white in that case
i have experienced racism working at hpe
@1a2 There are a few of us.....
I don’t really look back much these days.
When I mention I used to work at HPE, the reactions are usually the same: the service falls short, the prices feel high, the commercials miss the mark, and the LinkedIn feeds are full of self-promoters. It’s a consistent pattern.
What I’ve realized is how easy it is, inside a large company, to believe you’re somehow special. That belief lives in a bubble. Once you step outside it, you quickly see you’re not that unique after all.
A lot of people still inside have no real sense of what’s coming. The competition is focused and moving fast, and this bloated organization is going to need some genuine humility if it’s going to survive the AI reckoning ahead. Companies that refuse to confront their own cultural issues and excess rarely make it through intact.
For those of us who were laid off, better days are already underway.
@1a2 more indians, more Europeans, white women, more muslim women, and token minorities here and there. I rarely see asians.
Are there still Americans working at HPE?
Employees vanish in HPE layoffs, always secretive and deliberate. And the culture is ghost them and acknowledge they never existed.
I haven't at all seen a current layoff. There was a targeted one in late July, but very small.
Hit the road Jack etc etc
Antonio is such a weak leader. Stable times from cheap money created awful leadership, and paved the way, DEI Gartners and Kate Gosselin types. They’ll make stuff up, exaggerate, come after you vindictively, and then lay you off once they’re done.
This is exactly why that Neri’s “laying off with care and compassion” is complete bullsh-t. The problem with being laid off isn’t “care and compassion”. It’s the fact that you were laid off. There’s no nice way to do it.
I’ve watched female bosses lay off guys who are the main ones supporting their families, and that empathy they always talk about just isn’t there. At the end of the day, it’s really about how the whole thing makes them look.
It's all a reminder to not work late, and never give up a weekend or kid's baseball game.
And in fact, never stay longer than a few years. A rolling stone gathers the pay increases and promotions.
After 3 to 5 years at a corporation you become institutionalized, unable to think fresh thoughts, learn new things, or care about the people.
Long story short, fcku 'em. Show me the money.
The ghosting is guilt. And to expect humane treatment during a layoff requires humans, not these “people” pretending to be human. It is why dehumanizing takes place: it is easier to throw away an object than hurt a person with a family. Every single layoff should happen in person so the ba----ds doing this have to take responsibility for their actions. What an ugly world.