It's two days before the end of the quarter and I will find out today whether or not I will be with HPE on Wednesday. Our manager scheduled 1-1 meetings with each of us on his team today. He blew them all off with no explanation last week. I know several instances of men over 50 losing their job in this layoff. Has anyone on this forum heard of a woman of any age losing their job in this latest layoff?
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Whether you do it on your own or are WFRd, HPE shows you as retired in the system if you meet the criteria for retirement...55 plus 10 years or service, I think. If your age plus service equals 80 or more, you are retired and entitled to HPE Retiree Medical Benefits. The latter is my situation so I know that for sure.
I know of several women that got hit that have not only age but 15+ years in the company
I think we are starting to see more and more that these HPE Next program WFRs are far different than they were in the past. It is pretty clear that these are being done by using a spreadsheet and some basic sorting and/or filtering. Salary, age, years of service, office/location, rating.... seems like if you meet X number of these characteristics = WFR. I have a feeling that next Monday (being the first Monday in FY18) is going to be ugly.
Regarding Women over 50 being laid off: I am over 50 and was let go from DXC (formerly HPE) 1 month ago. I've been with EDS/HP/HPE/DSC for 27 years. My job was absorbed into the client and I turned down their "generous" off which was a 30 % pay cut and a 140 mile commute every day. My manager told me that i was guaranteed a job until 9/30. My last day ended up being 9/22. I was basically screwed out of a week of pay. I sort of get that. However, the thing that made me angry the most was that I was also told that if I chose not to go, my manager would look for positions in the company for me. Nope. That didn't happen. He told me "that wasn't done anymore". He even had open positions in his group. Which "HR" wouldn't let him place me in since it meant a demotion. It doesn't matter if it's men or women. The only thing that matters is the bottom line.
I think your wrong about the insurance for life from hp.....i worked with a person who retired with 38 years at 61 years old and did not get the medical for life
Does this include people who came from compaq/digital who were acquired with birthday prior to 1957
RE: the pre 1958 medical. You got the HP, not HPE insurance for life. And yes, if your age/years totaled 80, and you were WRF'ed, you were also retired so my total of 96 put me well into the retired/wfred range.
i have heard of several 50s+ females. it is a salary number and needs game. Factory gone soon, etc...
What does this comment mean from one of the response posts?
" If you were born in early 1957, you get a great HP retirement plan. I was born in early 1958 so I get no benefit re: insurance Friends that hired in after me but were 8 months older get insurance at half the $17,000/year I"m paying via cobra."
Question: You just have to be born in early 1957 or earlier to get HPE medical insurance benefit? Are you saying this is the new rule regardless of your years of service at HPE?
Another poster has said
"When you are WFR'd from the company, If you are within 365 days of having 80 "service points" (age + years of service) you are then eligible for HPE Retirement Health Benefits."
Question: Is this a new policy/rule? Never heard of this before. Only thing I heard of is something calle a pre-2003 medical policy which was a complicated formula of 4 or 5 conditions around age and service, all of which had to be met to be eligible for retirement medical benefits that is on par with current employees.
Yep my boss was a woman and I know of several others too WFR'ed
‘Lost a lot 3PAR knowledge today” this in Fremont?
When you are retired AND wfr'ed, you have no capability to go back into HPE. Period. (seems redundant). You get a gold nametag with your name and "retired" on it. You also get a clock with your name on it. Like I need a clock being retired. If you were born in early 1957, you get a great HP retirement plan. I was born in early 1958 so I get no benefit re: insurance. Friends that hired in after me but were 8 months older get insurance at half the $17,000/year I"m paying via cobra. But, I still glad for the years at HP/HPE and the WFR. A great place to be from.
When you are WFR'd from the company, If you are within 365 days of having 80 "service points" (age + years of service) you are then eligible for HPE Retirement Health Benefits. I don't know what other "retirement benefits" you might be eligible for.
Simple.. You are "retired" from HPE. Not necessarily retired from the workforce. A couple of my collegues were also "retired from HPE", there must be a benefit for either party, otherwise why do it.
Question, how can you be WFRed and Retired at the same time without being given a choice? Isn't retiring the employee's decision and not HPE's? Also, what does Retired mean in this case? Did you get a special retirement package?
thanks and good luck.
Best of luck in your future. My situation is different since I have alot of time and age. I not only was WFR'ed but also RETIRED so I can't even put in for another HPE job. Wasn't my choice to retire but since I was eligible, i didn't have a choice. HPE, a great company to be from.
I'm out this today 10/30/17.. Over 50 and WFR'ed this morning. Seems if you work in Storage and don't have Nimble behind your name you are on the list. Lost a lot of 3Par expertise today. Guess the future is Nimble. Also, if you are not 're-hired' to an open position within 60 days you can not work for HPE again. Going to be a difficult road ahead. Good luck to all affected.
last June my manager scheduled a 1-1 with everyone on his team on a WFR Monday. The meeting was to notify who is safe or not. If your manager scheduled a team meeting, it means a re-org or the whole team got WFR'd. 80% of the time is a re-org on team meeting.
Not sure what being a woman has to do with WFRs. HPE doesn't care, being 50+ is akin to having a target painted on your back.
Yes. I am a woman over 50 and I was WFRd Couple of Mondays ago.
1 on 1 = high probability of WFR notice. Group concall = re-org..
My guess would be a "significant" amount of the team will be impacted. Pre-notifications can be given in a group setting, but actual notifications need to be done individually. It could be some of the calls are WFR notifications and others may be "go forward" conversations for those that are staying. I wish you the best (and at this point, I'm not sure which of the 2 options I would call "the best".... be it staying or going...)
I would think re-org news would happen in one team call, not individual 1:1 meetings. At least that's how it's historically happened in my organization
Actually 2 women that I know of from 2 weeks ago. One area manager and one ASM. Both field service.
Same for the Storage RBU. 1:1 calls scheduled for this morning 10/30/17. Whole team of 13 has calls this morning. Hopefully it is re-org news and not WFR's