Thread regarding VMware Inc. layoffs

VMware leadership team is in panic and tops bad decisions with worse decisions. Company is not able to renew it's products and business. Large investments prove money sinks. Agile companies pass left and right. Stagnation conquers the boiler room and it is hard to avoid going down. Seen so many times happening to good companies. Good luck anyways.

What kind of drugs are using, this is anoutstanding narrative

#gold

Stories suck. Being laid off sucks. Knowing you worked your ass off for what seems to be nothing, sucks. Yet I know it's the company who has to survive. Laying off people isn't what they want. It isn't what they enjoy doing. So fighting back, for what? They aren't fighting. They are trying to survive. Yet, I have commented here before, sure I'm bitter. I hate what they did to my family. But in the end it will be for the best of us. Do you feel like being miserable? Feeling like your 8 hours aren't enough time to do the things you need to do? Leaving people hanging because you have 11 cases thrown at you but you made commitments to call 5 others you know you won't be able to keep? Do you want to feel like a failure, mostly, and end your day with a transfer because you couldn't figure it out in the last 15 minutes you had?

Does that something you want to do? Sure you're passionate. Sure you want to find the answer to this riddle. You'd feel liberated! But that takes time. Research. Something called a luxery. So think again. Do you want to fight back? Or do you just want to find something else where you are happy? Deal with this lemon you got and make lemonade and then enjoy it. You who've stayed are awesome. You who've left are awesome. It was a family and though you don't know who's writing this you are all brothers and sisters to me and I wish you all the best of luck with what you have and what you will get. Each one made a difference! Each one is unique. Each one has their own way of getting to the bottom. Every single one will be great! Believe in yourself! That's why you were hired to begin with. The end!

OP - very thoughtful - thanks for sharing and keep ignoring haters

Instead of creating value for their firms, their shareholders and society, top executives of these firms are, through the massive use of share-buybacks, doing the opposite: they are extracting value. Although the purported goal of share buybacks is to be “friendly to shareholders,” the overall impact of share buybacks is to destroy long-term shareholder value, jobs and the economy.

Thus between 2003 and 2012, publicly-listed firms in the S&P 500 used a colossal amount of their earnings—54 percent or $2.4 trillion—to buy back their own stock. The article reveals that this wasn’t done for the most part when stock prices were low: astonishingly, most of the big purchases came when the stock price was high. Why? “Because stock-based instruments make up the majority of executives’ pay, and buybacks drive up short-term stock prices.” These firms are engaged, the article says, in “what is effectively stock-price manipulation.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/08/18/hbr-how-ceos-became-takers-not-makers/#20f3320410cf

Americans are slave workers (look at pay increase in US compared to developed nations) and they are weak and powerless to fight back. Politicians? No no rely on them cause they are bought by companies already and they ain;t gonna do shit!

As one of the people who was laid off, I can say that "Don't be despair! There is a life after VMware. There are better jobs out there! There are better companies!"

Hello Original Poster - thank you for sharing this #gold

Oh no, I'm far from HR and a manager. I just found myself following and praying for all of you. I know it will be me again one day, and that's okay. It is just what I know to say.

so besides HR we now have current STAYING Managers pumpin up the "your ok kid and tyvm" volume? please

Oh..and he didn't go postal..he went "Global"

Stories suck. Being laid off sucks. Knowing you worked your ass off for what seems to be nothing, sucks. Yet I know it's the company who has to survive. Laying off people isn't what they want. It isn't what they enjoy doing. So fighting back, for what? They aren't fighting. They are trying to survive. Yet, I have commented here before, sure I'm bitter. I hate what they did to my family. But in the end it will be for the best of us. Do you feel like being miserable? Feeling like your 8 hours aren't enough time to do the things you need to do? Leaving people hanging because you have 11 cases thrown at you but you made commitments to call 5 others you know you won't be able to keep? Do you want to feel like a failure, mostly, and end your day with a transfer because you couldn't figure it out in the last 15 minutes you had?

Does that something you want to do? Sure you're passionate. Sure you want to find the answer to this riddle. You'd feel liberated! But that takes time. Research. Something called a luxery. So think again. Do you want to fight back? Or do you just want to find something else where you are happy? Deal with this lemon you got and make lemonade and then enjoy it. You who've stayed are awesome. You who've left are awesome. It was a family and though you don't know who's writing this you are all brothers and sisters to me and I wish you all the best of luck with what you have and what you will get. Each one made a difference! Each one is unique. Each one has their own way of getting to the bottom. Every single one will be great! Believe in yourself! That's why you were hired to begin with. The end!

I thought you went postal.

Well said.