Outside of thanking God you have a job, 2018 for the ones still left that hpe has been nothing but looking at a bunch of your co-workers get laid off, no sort of clear path or direction of what is going on with the company from your managers or upper management, or any sort of Future Past for this year.
Not even the usual corporate BS of 2018 will be great and we will sell a bunch of products and put HPE at the top again.
It just seems like cut cut cut and pray your not next.
well said @RBhJahm-7eby.
That is the story I have heard from many friends who have left HPE.
I got WFR'd last year and now work for the state government. My pay is 25% less but my workload is 50% less also. On top of that I dont have to worry about WFR's. It will take 5 to 7 years to reach the same pay I had with HPE. 5 to 7 years from HPE would probably be extinct or sold out into pieces.
You can work twice as hard for 10% more or half as hard for 10% less!
It has been my experience that at the one and the same time, there are some extremely hard-working folks who put in tons and tons of over-time (give up their vacations, too), in an effort to keep their jobs, and they get laid off, anyway. Some of that can be due to back-stabbing... If you are a "nice guy" and don't play the games, hard work and over-time will NOT save your job, let me assure you of that!
At the same time, I know of people who "work from home" and build additions to their houses while "working from home", and so on. I even suspect that I know a person who "worked from home" and never told his or her boss that he or she was actually living about 300 or 400 miles away! It is also highly likely that this person (just now laid off) was also working another job at the same time.
With bosses of USA people being located in Puerto Rico or India, etc., and the utter cluelessness of management in general... And it is still a BIG company... This total diversity (between hard-hard workers laid off, and slackers slacking WAY long before getting laid off) should not surprise us.
Not that I fault the slackers for slacking, when they are given no real work that actually matters... And hard work is not rewarded anyway...
Random garbage in, random garbage out!
No surprises here, actually!
Those of us who view things with a healthy bit of skepticism cannot buy into everything @RBhJahm-6oep has said. The possibilities I see are
This poster is one of the rare cases that end up with 3x extra work with less pay. Highly unlikely it is the normal for most people who leave HPE and find other jobs. Many people might end up with less salary but that also comes with less work and less stress.
The poster is an HR troll trying to paint a rosy picture about HPE.
I miss working for HPE! They laid me off about a year ago. In my new job, I do 3X as much work for less pay.
@RBhJahm-1huw who is CMS?
"Someone need a snickers bar?"
Yes, we ALL need snickers bars!
However, no one (excluding Antonio and Minions) get any snickers bars...
The rest of us get "Baby Ruth" bars as in the pool scene in "Caddie Shack"...
Except that the "Baby Ruth" bars will NOT really-truly be "Baby Ruth" bars, they will be the "REAL thing"! (As imagined by the swimmers).
WHO will eat the "Baby Ruths"? I'm not sure, my imagination is all tapped out by now.
(I suggest getting a better job, before ye are forced to find out).
Someone need a snickers bar?
I learned that CMS will layoff almost everybody
With respect to the high-level person shafted in Houston, I know how this drill goes… Level 10 manager dumps on level 9 manager, replaces level 9 with personal buddy who has personal loyalty… Never mind on-the-job knowledge (of how to serve the customers and get things done) getting flushed down the drain… That doesn’t matter. Personal loyalty is what REALLY matters! Then the new level 9 manager will repeat the exercise, flushing out those who already know what they are doing, and replacing them with personal-loyalty flunkies at the manager-level-8 layer. And on down the pyramid, the shake-ups continue, till there are VERY few left on the job, who have “learned the ropes” already. The customers, and the company, suffer greatly for this kind of thing, for loss of continuity. If I were in this “chain of command”, I would be desperately looking elsewhere…
To directly answer the OP's question. NO.
That comment 'first responder' looks very much like from the go mess guy or one of his brown nosers.
I would just like to second 1jtd. For the past few years it’s really been about “all our hard work” and how we’re the reason why HPE is successful blah blah blah. The reality is the company does not have the resources to reward “all of our hard work” Your management wants to reward you if you deserve it. They can’t. The company won’t let them. Even an EVP has limits to what they can do for their org. You think you’re getting a bonus at mid year like Antonio alluded to? Think again.
The company is in a real bad situation right now. The company has no choice but to reduce cost and it’s not just labor. Everything is getting cut.
1cer: What does your comment "First responder is obv someone who responds regularly as the idiotic grammar and tone is regularly used." say about YOU? You need a life or you, as an HPE HR troll, needs to get back to work wacking hard working, talented people. I do appreciate you telling us what this site is for./s
This is a layoff site, not complain about my job site. First responder is obv someone who responds regularly as the idiotic grammar and tone is regularly used.
Just move on with your life.
"Is there anything positive to look forward to at HPE for 2018????"
Not really, that I know of... Not even for highly ranked yuckety-yucks...
I know that it is hard for us peons to sympathize with high-ranked yuckety-yucks, but they often get messed over, just like us peons. In Houston recently, a high-ranked yuckety-yuck absolutely busted arse, and got near-impossible things done, as far as moving manufacturing from Houston to Foxconn Austin, quickly and efficiently. For that, he / she was "thanked" by his / her boss having him / her replaced (in the org chart) by an old, personal buddy-O from the HP Inc side of things!
Do NOT think, even for a second, that ANY of your hard work ("above and beyond") will be rewarded by ANY kind of loyalty or pay-back from HPE!!!