Comments on inevitable: Last Letter from a Colleague

lowering the costs and getting rid of employees is...

2011-09-03T02:47:42.404+04:00

lowering the costs and getting rid of employees is just nonsense and utterly poor pathetic management.

how about lowering costs of the hardware, so this way you can still stay in competition and live in real world.

lowering costs by getting rid of valued employees lowers the quality... then it's all downhill after that.

sad.

Hi anonymous who works for Cisco too :) I think yo...

2011-09-02T21:32:46.359+04:00

Hi anonymous who works for Cisco too :) I think you have the best answer, my +1 for you. Thanks

Its all about lowering the costs...If the same Tec...

2011-09-02T08:04:33.105+04:00

Its all about lowering the costs...If the same Tech Lead would have been based in APAC (India/China) he would have been sitting pretty....

The logic was to lower the costs in salaries from US/Canada employees.

Rest of the world didnt see many layoffs.

P.S: I work for Cisco, just like you.
P.S: Posted an anonymous, for obvious reasons

it's all about "selling" - if you ca...

2011-09-02T02:02:03.677+04:00

it's all about "selling" - if you can sell peanuts to monkeys you're a sales champion. technical guys are intellect, skilled in bits and bytes, where the packet goes etc... but without SALES skills it's just a tin.

sales rule.... i've learned that big time.. i'm a technical freak but without sales i was just a router without IOS prompt. :)

I think you've hit the reasoning right on the ...

2011-08-31T13:23:18.924+04:00

I think you've hit the reasoning right on the head. The big reasons no longer sit on a person's pure technical capability, especially at a large multinational tech company. It's made worse when said company is THE name in the arena. The demand to grow with the rest of the industry means the company needs to keep innovating and have team members NOT purely individual contributors.

Let's be clear here! Unless you are running yo...

2011-08-29T19:55:25.604+04:00

Let's be clear here! Unless you are running your own company, everyone regardless of title is employed at the discretion of the corporate entity.

There are alot of factors that come into play when...

2011-08-29T10:28:18.802+04:00

There are alot of factors that come into play when there are lay offs to be done. There is a fine line between technical and business. I had one strategy professional explain to me and i was like what?!!. Yeah, the way it works is this way: In todays day and age, anyone can go..CEO,CTO,CFO,CIOs,anyone in the company. I once heard the former Nokia CEO say that, "there is nothing like permanent employment nowadays."