I feel your pain, same happened to me and some coworkers at Unify, mostly 50 and over with vast experience and more than 25+ tears in the industry. Our skillset and knowledge was up to date since we could take continued courses to make the transition from past technologies to the latest trend, keeping in mind the majority of customer base was still on legacy equipment not willing to invest the money or did have the budget to update their systems. Since I never been unemployed in the past 30+ years the modern approach for job searching was frustrating to say the least and finally decided to email CEO's direct and was lucky enough to find one who listen to my story and I know work for his company as senior project manager. So the moral is never give up nor let any make you feel useless, why would you want to work for someone like that in the first place. Good Luck to All.
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Heard a large layoff is coming in June/July. Targeting high cost areas such a Herndon, VA and Palo Alto, CA. A team of 8 had 6 people laid off and the other two quit. Wanted to bring a person back with a job code decrease, doing the work of 8 people. Project Unify has been sped up to move all the teams by June. I'm sure the higher paid in each job category will be targeted. I'm looking for other opportunities. Been with EDS and then HPE for 28 years. I'm done with management's line to keep the customer happy, while you treat the employees like dirt. If you want to save money on salaries, get rid of the upper managers who don't do the work.
43 years old. Worked for 6 months. Laid off. There were people in my department hired after me who were not chosen for WFR. My same position in my same department was posted online, internally and externally, before I left. After I saw othat, I stopped looking at HP/HPE as a viable company and started looking for my next employer.
I took early retirement from EDS several years ago. I had spent 30 years with the company. It seems hard to believe, but it slowly, steadily slipped downward. It moved from a company with excellent training, real concerns about employees and concern that we provided excellence in IT Support to a company that doesn't care about its employees, will lie and cheat them regarding raises and bonuses, that has little or no pride in what it delivers to the customer, and the management has no perceivable leadership skills. Management through fear rather than leadership, if necessary lie to potential clients to win contracts, provide no more quality than the minimum expected, through smoke and mirrors make sure the dashboards showed high client satisfaction (when you knew the client wasn't happy) and finally, keep your head down, don't actually take any risks. It turned into a crap company and that is why the owners were so happy when a mug called HP came along an bought them.
I had 37 years with HP when they WFR'd me last year. The list of people that they give you to show ages and jobs of people in the department was telling. 90 people that were not chosen for WFR were younger than me and only one person older than me. Of course they say age has nothing to do with it but even they know that's a lie. 80 percent of the portal jobs are for college hires.
I too am a "seasoned" employee.. age 57.. been with HP/HPE for 7 years.. Global Prod Line Mgr. its a shame how companies use the "profit" growth card to let the over the age of 50 people go.. yes the HR folks have the layoffs down pat like a well oiled machine.. how dumb do they think people are with the age distribution list you get when your let go so there protected by anti age discrimination laws.. lot to be said for working for private companies or working for yourself. So easy to look back, if I was any young professional, I would NOT choose to work for Corp. America. and certainly not look at High Tech...
Best of luck to all.
Happened to me several weeks ago. Severance has been adjusted heavily downwards. Good luck to all.
March 7 is the date in Canada
we lost several folks recently, and there's more to come, probably after the Analysts' report from Meg.
I have been at hpe for under a year. Am I in danger of being laid off too?
I guess, probably I should reconsider applying for a job at HPE APAC then, looking at the current state of affairs..
I'm currently working as an server engineer under a local company subcontracted by HPE and was originally thinking of trying to apply for a job at HPE for better pay since I'm getting around $1850 USD per month for salary, $1500 USD per month after compulsory deductions by the government..
Good luck to you all, and hopefully all you guys reading this aren't axed due to the layoffs.
I started less than a year ago. I'm not happy and want to get laid off. I'd sacrifice my job so that a more senior person could stay.
What do I do?.
Next month will be a bloody march for HPE... Probably march 1st or 7th.. Its going to happen all over, canada, usa, latam, emea, asia :(
I think it's a sad state of affairs when we have to work until we are 67 to get SS but in the tech world, no one wants to talk to you if you are past 45 and even that is stretching it.
Of course the package has changed. Let's not only get rid of the talent and keep the inexperienced but let's kick them on the way out.
It happened yesterday in Tulsa for some. Of course now the lay off package is changed. it's about to get bloody
Me too, 58 years old
Not good