Well, the proposed 5,000 cuts by end of year seems to be end of fiscal year. Tuesday morning mandatory meeting, even if you are on vacation. Gallows humor abounds. What a change from the company I hired into in 1982. I wonder if I'm part of the... — read more
All the talk about speed, agility, dev/ops, analytics, AI, cloud
Hey HPE, you want companies to transform using your HW/SW when you are adapting to your own needs with the speed of an 8-bit sloth. Talk about speed, agility, dev/ops, analytics, AI, cloud and you are still relying heavily on Excel. Ah...and your... — read more
Hot off the press news - UK redundancies
some of the management update calls today started to disclose information on the redundancy plans for the UK. More information as soon as details start leaking out.
Looking at HPE as a customer (instead as an employee)
I was WFR’ed in April of 2014, and took me 9 full months to get another IT job at a small logistics company earning around 60% of what I was earning at HP. I lost my house, my credit score went from A+ to trash, and to make things even worse, my wife... — read more
Additional EG AMS/EMEA Supply Chain roles moving from Houston to Puerto Rico at the beginning of Q1
Unfortunately, not just a rumor (as I was on that meeting here in Houston this morning). Several EG Supply Chain GBU roles will be moving to Puerto Rico before the end of the calendar year. The original plan was to execute before the FY end, but they... — read more
OO
OO is one if the best product that HPE got through acquisition, to date it's still the best orchestrator on the market. Too sad to see what's happening to OO team. I hope you guys will find a safer and better place soon.
Meggot and Minions will do ANYTHING for a Few Russian Rubles!
See https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/02/hp-enterprise-russia-review-pentagon-security-software/ and... — read more
2 weeks have passed since rumors about 5000 layoffs
2 weeks have passed since rumors about 5000 layoffs. Complete silence on the topic since then, barring that one posting about the 3PAR layoffs in Ireland. Did the financial website that reported this get bad intelligence? The rumor sure seems to have... — read more
HP’s Work Culture is Fundamentally Hostile to the Very Best Values of Veterans of the USA’s Armed Services
Glassdoor has done some sort of “deep clean” of many-many negative reviews of HP lately, to include reviews that are even several years old! Glassdoor sells HP job advertising, you know… So the below is an edited recycle from there, of a... — read more
HPE’s Whitman Gets $35.6 Million in 2016 After Company Split (HPE, HP,INC)
My Question is, if the company was losing money and they needed to cut expenses, why in the heck did the company give Meg 35.6 MILLION DOLLARS? This is terrible after putting people in the streets with no medical and no job and at the same time... — read more
The key to the greatness of Bill Hewlett and David Packard was that they held no attachment to things, only people. The garage was left behind,
From: R.I.P HP, what Silicon Valley can learn from the rise and fall of its original tech startup http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/hewlett_packard_hp_split_the_rise_and_fall_of_silicon_valley_s_original.html
Goodbye Old World, Hello New
The future is now, and now is software defined, with seismic market shifts to a cloud based service consumption model on the cheapest bare-metal hardware supplied by a big brand low cost producer such as Huawei. Don't believe me? - who in the year... — read more
Relevant article using HP as an example
http://www.businessinsider.com/signs-your-company-is-conducting-mass-layoffs-2015-10
All Very Predictable and Borning
The entire tech industry got fat and bloated. Executives grew by purchasing companies, not by enhancing services. Surprised? Hurd gutted R&D and now the company is lagging in many ways. Who knows what the future will bring. IBM is not what it was... — read more
Even cutting part-time gigs!
Was just told that a part-time (10-15 hours a week) position that I'd been contracted for has been eliminated because the manager has been told to "lower spend" for Q4. Just a couple of weeks ago the manager had been told to ramp up spending so that... — read more
HPE confirms Belfast-based 3PAR engineering office to close
"(...) Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to shutter its 3PAR engineering office in Belfast. (...) The office had about 100 people at the start of the year with the numbers dropping over the past few months. This amounts to 20-25 per cent of the overall... — read more
Meg honored as one of 100 Greatest Living Business Minds
https://www.forbes.com/100-greatest-business-minds/person/meg-whitman
cloud seduced or what?!
I read these threads as I am really worried about my future. Some are very very good because they are considered and objective, some are clearly a little "tainted" shall we say. So I decided to do a little mystery shop. Simple question to HPE online... — read more
Where to go from HPE?
A serious question for those who keep saying to move on: where? I've been trying to move on for a while now, with no luck. All other tech companies are in the same shape as HPE, to a bigger or lesser degree. Layoffs are happening left and right, just... — read more
Inventory of phones email
My coworkers and I just received an email asking for an inventory of our phones. To top it off this whole timecard change (with the failed notification by HR that only went out selectively) is spooky.
Layoffs will not help HPE compete
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/What-HPE-s-layoffs-mean-for-the-company-s-12221723.php However, even if the layoffs help the company reduce costs in the short term, Ponvert said he is skeptical the cuts will actually help the company compete... — read more
Morale and productivity in the gutter
I see people around me really upset. Have lost employee morale. Not at all a right place to work. Everyone i am seeing is now fearful and wants to quit the company by making alternative arrangement ASAP. All the talented workers are already been... — read more
Surprise visit to belfast office en route to Bangalore
"Surprise" all hands scheduled for tomorrow sprung on the Belfast office today! Marty and Uresh en route to Bangalore, bye bye Belfast and the highly skilled workforce employed here very sad to see!
CE Megathread - Welcome to the Boiler Room.
We have been through a lot. I've seen more use of partners and contractors for cases. We don't backfill positions of those who have quit on their own. Click never works properly. Dispatch is set up to fail. Customers are increasingly specific in... — read more
Times long gone
I am very sorry to hear about the layoffs. Times have changed and the executives were not able to steer the company in the right direction. Now, the worker will pay for mistakes made by the executive line up. I worked for HP back when their were no... — read more
I was WFR'd in 2015
I was WFR'd in 2015 under the premise that I retired. What bothered me most is that once I signed up for WFR, which was before the split I could not or would not be able to apply for a position with HPE. I spent 40 years of my life working for... — read more
Nobody is even trying to defend HPE anymore
what is ultra-concerning about the posts here is no one, not a single person, is putting up any form of defence position in support of the company. I was talking to a long term customer who summed up the problem - they simply said they no longer... — read more
Layoffs might be significantly higher than 5k
The key here is "at least 5,000 workers", and the current rumor mill inside the Enterprise group has the actual number at 10k, or 20%. I've been hearing something similar. Not really sure why they wouldn't simply come out and say it, HPE has shown... — read more
Shameless Meg, please leave!!!!
Meg asked us to give 100% to the company while she secretly interviewed at Uber. Meg told investors and employees to believe in HPE while she quietly sold millions of HPE stocks. Meg, it is time for you to leave!! Nobody in HPE deserves to be WFR... — read more
Worst CEO in HP and HPE History
Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Leo Apotheker or Meg Whitman?
Are HP, Inc (HPQ) layoffs coming?
I heard the Printing department is not doing well and has a several issues in the field with their web presses. I continue to see upper and mid management moves in that area, which means that they know that something bad is coming. I know this is HPE... — read more
What is HPE india severence pay policy?
i work for HPE india. looks like i am in trouble now. i know that they utilize this opportunity to target whistle blowing employees. still no worries as i am capable of getting job in other company. but, i am intrrested to know which Government... — read more
100,000 Laid Off over five years?
Lotta talent has been shown the door, from all areas of the company. Has anyone thought about getting together and starting an employee owned company - without the bloated layer of middle managers and with salespeople linked directly to the success... — read more
Is Meg Whitman Qualified to the President of the USA?
http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/hp-hpe-meg-whitman/ Meg Whitman licks her goggles, steps up to the ledge, places one hand on the concrete, and hurls herself, pencil-straight, into the turquoise-blue water. She’s off in a brisk freestyle crawl—“Race... — read more
10% Impact Sector Wise
Enterprise Group: 15% [Include recent acquisations] Enterprise service: 15% Software: 5% Fin Service: 5% Can anyone confirm the finding ?
HPE Age Discriminatio Class Action Update
Source below. Here is the update on the class action for HPE #AGEdiscrimination: Updated 9/22/17 at 6:20 am with comment from plaintiffs counsel. A federal judge has granted Hewlett-Packard's request to arbitrate an age-bias suit filed over the... — read more
Granny Meg far*s again and 10% workforce is gone
Why don't she fire herself. That will be very helpful. She is the most incompetent person fro her jon in the company.
In case somebody is weighing staying or leaving like I am
I've been considering leaving for over a year now, but this latest news of huge incoming layoffs has really kicked me in the behind to start looking for a new job. Thought this article was somewhat useful, if anybody else is considering the same... — read more
HPE as we knew is dead
HPE as we knew is dead. They have made so many wrong decisions that it cannot survive. There is no technology leadership nor vision for the company, and the top executives do not even understand that they are not in a boxes market anymore. Customers... — read more
So much for expecting fewer layoffs
Not three weeks ago I was convinced that positive results would mean fewer layoffs and less workplace stress altogether. Boy, was I wrong. Of course they would think that positive quarter results were predicated by layoffs, and would want more of... — read more