As long as Cisco continues treating employees as an expense instead of a valuable asset, this will not be a good place to work. The moment the focus shifted to cutting costs through layoffs instead of investing in the workforce to ensure better results, this place was done. We need to go back to the way things were a decade ago. We were considered the best place to work for a reason.
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Cisco and every other fortune 500s #1 priority is their shareholders.
"More than 66% of the Fortune 500 have chosen Delaware as their legal home"(1) "where shareholder primacy is still upheld."(2)
(1) https://corp.delaware.gov/aboutagency/
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
You ARE just an expense. Cisco and every other fortune 500s #1 priority is their shareholders. Never forget that
We need to go back to the way things were a decade ago. We were considered the best place to work for a reason.
Considered by whom? I wouldn't entertain a resume from Cisco in 2014 and only a few from 2004. It had by far the weakest development organization I'd ever seen.
@1wpn+1uNfKb9J, good luck w/ that plan. Try it & let us know how it works.
Managers are supposed to be approving it. The only to take vacation w/o it being in Workday is to pretend to work from your intended vacation spot & hope they don’t start tracking where you connect from.
With managers now being the gatekeepers of our time off & the needs of the team coming first, good luck getting our 20 days we had before, much less 3-4 months.
@1wpn+1uNfKb9J Try it and let me know how it works out
Cisco shifted toannuallycutting costs [sometimes quarterly] in2008[2001].
FTFY.
Many of us were children of lesser sites where layoffs were frequent since 2001. By 2008 people hated the place so bad they quit even without a layoff package.
Unlimited PTO was a big mistake for Cisco.
They thought they were getting ahead by cutting balance sheets and tracking PTO to fire the people who show up the least, but my guess is all employees are going to start taking about 3-4 months off.
If everyone does it, they can't fire everyone.
And if it's unlimited anyway - why even put it into workday? Folks will probably just put it on their calendars and "oops - forgot" to input it into the tracking system.
just beat Cisco at their own game, its not that hard
first, save up some money since we all know LRs will continue to be a thing...no pity for someone who doesn't have some reserves to fall back on
now, start phoning it in
I work maybe two hours a day, and I count sitting in meetings as work
I do whatever I need to around the house on Cisco time
I disappear randomly but will make pithy responses in WebEx on my phone wherever I am so people think I am engaged
IDGAF about raises, bonuses because I make more money on stocks than I do my salary
I hope to work less than thirty minutes a day when the axe falls
my new hack is to exploit unlimited PTO
once you move to a mindset of exploiting Cisco as badly as they exploit you, life isn't so bad...just get out of your slave mentality and go mercenary
Name one new product Cisco created lately. Do not list anything acquired. Start now -- I will come back in a month.
Nothing will change. People will still bend over backwards for ELT and praise their wonderful looks during the all-hands.
LLYNH (Looks like you’re new here) .
Cisco shifted to annually cutting costs in 2008.
I agree but I'm afraid the company is beyond the point of returning to the great company it once was. Layoffs have been happening since the first one in April 2001 and are becoming more frequent and predictable. I don't think the damage done to the company's reputation as a technical innovator and to employee morale can be restored.
It's been like this for way over a decade Im afraid.