Am I the only one who is worried about Q3 results and what that'll mean for us? We know this leadership will use all and any opportunity to justify even more layoffs, and this could be a prime one.
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@1e2 Still? Move on already. We’re still here. We’re just fine. And even if we get laid off, we’re still fine. We’re not psychotic like a lot of the angry ex-employees here. We’d forget about F5 24 hours after the layoff. Get some therapy already. Develop some coping skills.
@qf A bubble with a $300k paycheck, healthcare, RSUs/401k, training, 8 weeks of PTO/WW/holidays. I make my own schedule. I’ll take the bubble.
@21g pattern analysis
@1m3 your intuition or facts?
@OP clapping and clapping and many will be out by the end of September. Spreadsheet rows are already selected.
@dn why do you take a two year time frame? Maybe because in 2022 there were 7000+ employees. You can read the financial statements and the proxy statements. This will show that employees earn less per employee and for example CEO went from $12,8m to $23m in same timeframe. Is that what you call "humble". That is the same as K.O. from Boeing...
@dn Calm down and open your eyes. You live in a bubble.
@OP be watching for a layoff as several of the past RIFs have come after strong results
@OP it's coming. brace yourself.
@OP despite other posts criticiizing you your concerns and feelings are valid.
@dh FFIV up 130% in 2 years w/6,500+ employees
Sure seems like it might not be on verge of collapse
Sure seems like it fully recovered from the security breach
A company that prioritizes making a profit so it can stay in business and continue to offer jobs, benefits, to 6,500+ employees - sort of seems like what any company tries to do, from 1 employee to 200,000 employees
If you can do better, do it
Insulting F5, its leadership, its employees, is doing nothing - certainly not making you feel better considering how often you have to do it
Frankly, all the attention you still give it shows your jealousy of F5 more than anything
@d5 you win Joe
@bd Time to move on. Not healthy. You’ll be laid off again by a different company… your startup company will fail… your new Porsche will get a scratch… you’ll get cancer. Get used to it. Roll with it.
Everyone worried about being laid off. Don’t. It’ll happen. It won’t make sense. It’ll feel unfair. And it might be unfair. But you can either accept this fact and when it happens you move on. Or you can stress yourself out for no reason, feel anxious all the time, let hate consume you, give yourself health problems.
Kind of like death. You’re going to die someday (shocking, I know). Get over it now. Worrying about it won’t prevent it. Again… worrying about it won’t prevent it (layoffs). Just live day to day. Do your best, because that’s all you can do. Go take a walk and stop thinking. That’s $100,000 worth of therapy.
No mass layoffs coming.
No significant hiring coming.
Rinse and repeat the last few quarters.
Individual results may vary.
@OP that's why they hired new Chief Resource Officer specialising in executing "hasta la vista, baby" actions.
@OP for those of us that have already thrown to the curb as trash the Q3 earnings report is a who cares