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 that, I stopped looking at HP/HPE as a viable company and started looking for my next employer.
I hear you! I'm over 40 and feel for you. There may be something you can do if you were laid off by HP. Email me to confidentially discuss at jjccrr2016@gmail.com
I passed the government secret clearance background check through the Govt office of personnel management and that took three months. Worked 6 months and was laid off. HP really is bad. Never worked in such a harsh atmosphere with negative people. My team leader treated me like crap. 45 years old 20 years experience. Going to open my own business. HP cannot survive past 5 years doing this. They will collapse.
Just remember HPE is not HP. HPE does not make hardware, or really sell anything a consumer would purchase. I happily took my package before the HP/HPE split, knowing that I 'd end up with HPE if that had kept me. HPE in particular, and IT in general is all about the recent graduation, experience means legacy, and that is out of style. Of course when I was the recent grad, everyone wanted ten to twenty years experience.
I'm the 43 year old laid off person. Went looking for a new laptop today, I skipped right over the HP's. It's funny how easy that was.
The long hours, no lunch, no breaks and no time to use vacation...no thanks. I'm not doing that anymore. I am glad the choice was made for me to leave because I would have stayed thinking I was one of the lucky ones had it not been. I was working at an exhausting level that was not sustainable. Now I'm free. Thanks Meg!
@GsumVyE-ayt thank you for your support, it's important that things like this surface so the customers and consumers know who they are dealing with
HPE is circling the drain. Take the package and consider yourself lucky to escape with it. Future WFR may not get that. Life on the outside is good.
go get some sleep and forget about this circus. Ain't worth your morale
f..K HP it seems to me tike a BS company. I'm from the energy sector and i can tell you that i won't be buying HP products anymore. After hearing several stories like yours, i lost respect for this compny that calls itself tech annovation place.......