And yet being a hard worker, sacrificing your time and energy, producing outstanding results, being a dedicated employee, or excellent problem solver, all means nothing when the layoffs come. Here is the ground breaking thought. If you actually rewarded people for their hard work, and if they knew it counts, maybe they would actually be motivated instead of demoralized?
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that's a sign that your team work will be outsourced to TreeCS (toilet cleaning services) and InfoKiss.
The @OP is not more than a G11. Nobody cares about 11s and below. And you can't be a 12
Another deadbeat that should leave before they are fired. So many whiners on the first boat out if a manager gets another chance.
You are assuming management has at least some competence. Cisco is like many companies in that appearances are the only thing most management grasps (I've been in all hands where Directors and VPs state this outright) so if you have any weak managers or managers you're not in in favor with all the way up the chain you are at risk.
If you can get time to do good work instead of busy work the benefit is having skills and a work ethic that will be valuable to your next employer. A lot of great talent has come to Cisco to be destroyed with endless busy work and when they end up in the street they've lost any useful skills making getting and keeping that next job far more difficult. Don't get trapped doing busy work at any company or your whole career could end up being trashed.
What a bunch of failures commenting here- why bother?
Just quit already cry baby
Do the bare minimum and spend the rest of your time learning new skills. You should be putting more effort in landing your next job
It was not always like this.
Cisco in late 1990s/early 2000s would seriously reward the average worker for great work.
I received several batches of pre-RSU options as an extra "Thank You"; from our VP in the early 2000s. I indeed worked for them. Nowadays, forget it!
Time to break out the participation trophies
So you want to be treated and rewarded based on performance and output ? Genius
Grow up
Remember that cry in a year.
Then that's a problem in the audult world.
you will have approximately ten jobs in your career and will leave approximately three against your will
welcome to the adult world
do not work for large corporations if you cannot contend with mass layoffs
Yeah, we refuse to kiss a-s but just want to work with a peace mind. Unfortunately, this is not what we all think it is. Take good care of yourself.