Disappointed that no layoffs are happening that I know of, (want it to happen to me) now I actually have to get some work done.
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1kod - also true. Cisco leadership also owns creating that part of the culture as well, especially in development. In the last eight to 10 years though the mentally of waiting for a package and doing as little as possible extends thoughout the company. E.g. Employees are not viewed as stakeholders.
1xac- ask yourself if this type of behavior would have existed at Cisco 8 or 10 yrs ago?
The answer is yes, people wanted packages from Cisco even in the worst economic collapse of our lifetimes "8 or 10 yrs ago." When management said with big smiles on their faces, "there is no metric for working code, only bug retirement rates" those of us who produced working code knew it was time to leave and felt we were as deserving of a reward as those who created the mess we spent far too much time cleaning up.
As for Mr. Salty, competent people don't aspire to being the best turd polisher. The problem is the turd, which in your case appears to be bad "service offerings." Either accept your role in perpetuating the turd, fix the turd, or go somewhere where people aren't stupid enough to build turds. Those of us who left wouldn't do 1, couldn't do 2, thrived by doing 3 and you can too!
1xac- ask yourself if this type of behavior would have existed at Cisco 8 or 10 yrs ago? The answer is a resounding no. Do you know why? It is simple. cisco treated employees like partners and stakeholders. If you worked hard and performed well Cisco in return paid a very competitor salary. Now employees are nothing more than a line on a spreadsheet- literally. Cisco is reaping what they have sowed. Cisco owns this behavior.
Loser!
I'm sorry you didn't get your free ride out the door. If you're not working, you don't deserve a package but you do deserve to be shown the door.
It makes me very salty to read comments like that when I worked hard, delivered on my deliverables on time and I got cut last year. I worked in IT, so obviously I wasn't in a BU that was loosing revenues, and my team had great Bingo scores on our Remedy tickets so we were keeping the Engineering customers happy with the service even if they weren't always happy with the service offerings.
Do Cisco shareholders a favor and just quit. You need to grow up and stop thinking Cisco "owes" you a salary or a severance package when you don't do any work.