You guys, all those employees contributing to their huge profits were actually a liability and now they'll be so much more efficient.
/s because people take sarcasm literally
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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What is the logical progression to this kind of a thing. Is there going to be a turning point or is bottom a long long way to go?
This is just a game to them, they have nothing to lose no matter what happens.
I’m just brainstorming here, but do layoffs pave the way for hiring new grads at entry level wages, with more cutting edge knowledge?
Sure, that overlooks the loss of tacit knowledge that keeps the company running. I haven’t actually figured out yet how large companies can keep packaging out their senior employees that glue their disorganized systems together with undocumented knowledge.
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Cisco can take their campus fabrics/DNA and shove it up their arse. They stopped trying a long time ago and IOS is still a pain to use.
We converted our medium-sized network to Ubiquity a couple years ago, everyone who has ever had to touch a config or deal with paying for updates is absolutely giddy.
It's nowhere near perfect, but lightyears better than dealing with Cisco's bullshit.
Fucking suits.
Shit like this is why I had to learn the trades as backup while I was still in the game, in this case training to be a computer technician.
LINE GO UP ALWAYS AND FOREVER!
As long as you don't look at all the other lines.
Part of me is glad I'm getting the hell out of this system in the near future. My heart goes out to younger people being royally screwed by it and I don't see any way out of it within that system.
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Same shit happened the last time Cisco laid off a bunch of people.
The U.S. system as it has always been.
A wooden baseball bat starts at like $75 for quality wood and never runs out of ammo, in case you're worried that there are more rich sociopaths than there are bullets in your backpack.
Traditionaly these situations require the use of tar and feathers.