Love this line from the old movie Jaws.

There is a scene in the old movie Jaws in which Richard Dreyfuss says something along the lines of "The shark is an evolutionary wonder-an eating machine. All it does is swim, eat, and make baby sharks."

Corporations are like sharks, all they do is make profit. Like a shark's teeth, if you are no longer needed, you are discarded. Is a shark immoral? No, it is amoral. So are corporations. They will do whatever it takes to maximize profits. Sure they will throw a few bucks to charity on occasion and live within the labor and environmental laws imposed on them - skirting them as best they can. But in the end they are in place for only one thing - to make profit.

We all know this deep down so I am certain my words are not enlightening to anyone.

I got LRed by Cisco coming up on two years ago. I landed at a fast growing Cisco competitor and life is good- at least till the growth dries up and I become a unneeded tooth once again.

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I am the OP. The person who posted the lines from Jaws about the shark attack made my day. Almost peed myself. The scene in the movie was about a tragic event in our Navy's history- but in this context- it was funny

They will do whatever it takes to maximize profits.

Hopefully they do the smart thing(s) to maximize profits. Taking the short-term view can sacrifice the long-term. Replacing older, more expensive workers is great in the short-term. But hiring younger, less experienced workers who don't have the internal corporate "tribal knowledge" on how to get things done only slows down progress. Keeping lazy, do-the-bare-minimum workers who are less expensive is bad for the long-term. I'm not saying that all the younger, less experienced workers are dead wood, but Cisco needs to get rid of the dead wood.

If you don't produce, you need to be removed. Let those who are willing to work productively get things done without having to fix the mistakes the dead wood makes and Cisco can start making progress & profits again.

Cisco also needs to get rid of the members of the ELT and upper management who are taking the short-sighted easy ways out to profits and ignoring the long-term impacts that are killing what was once a great company. I really miss the "Cisco culture". I"m not willing to call it family, not when Director level management turned a blind eye to middle managers railroading people who work hard, but don't necessarily s--- up to make the manager look good get suddenly put in the bottom 5% and terminated.

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Love this line from the old movie Jaws.

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