Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

Higher Paid HPE Employees Look Out

They have gone through the accounts and told the account execs who is too expensive and to open reqs for their jobs so they can be replaced when the new person is hired. So check for your job to be posted internally and externally, which is where someone found mine and told me about it, and I was able to confirm that's what's happening to people like me. Went on the HPE internal job searcher and my job was there, along with a coworker's job too. Also found it externally.

Happy Holidays to me and others in the same boat, but I'm grateful to the person that gave me the heads up because I truly had no idea. This does truly fit the things I've read his past year about getting rid of the more experienced (read expensive) workers to hire the kids cheaper.

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So, what would happen if you applied for the requisition, i.e. applied for your own job? :-) It would seem that each person should have a very good chance in the competition, given that they will be able to address the job requirements in detail and with expertise.

It's sad we're reduced to this.

(And in case it's not clear, this is not meant to poke fun at the situation or belittle anyone posting here... just a bad deal all 'round, but not surprising this is occurring as employees are viewed as "Human Capital"... sometimes literally reduced to the dollar figure they represent.)

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Post ID: @5ups+KvRXBhI

Yeah, the job was word for word my job, same contract, same location, etc., on both the internal job searcher and external websites, so that's why someone outside the company was able to give me the heads up.

Not sure which is worse, though, seeing it before I get laid off or having found it post layoff like someone just posted. I do think that "too expensive" is age discrimination, because you are usually too expensive because of years of education and experience, I.e. getting up there in age according to HPE.

Well, I'm sure Meg and cronies will have a nice holiday, and probably they will sell some more company stock for a hefty profit here soon, after spinning the quarterly results, cause Meg needs more $$$$$$

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Post ID: @buy+KvRXBhI

One of the most painful things of my layoff was seeing my position (exact role in exactly the same location) posted in the HPE career site days after my final day. I even considered suing (two different lawyers told me I had a good discrimination case by age), but decided to move on without going that route. Now, I'm seriously considering joining the class action legal effort against the Company - not because of the money - but simply because I believe that they did something wrong and they deserve being punished for it.

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Post ID: @fjj+KvRXBhI

You got it "partially" correct, OP (Believe me, I know well what I'm saying). Several key positions will be hired through contracted independent recruiting Companies that have been told to post them as "Confidential" and not disclose the Company name until after the first two screenings. They are going to be offered as "contract-to-hire" agreements in order to easily slash them if they don't meet the expectations in the first 6 months. They'll be offering better-than-usual base salaries in order to get good candidates align with the "contract-to-hire" thing. Most of those positions will never make the internal or external career site of HPE...

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