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I saw Hp folk being laid here, was sad as I knew most of them...In common? were over 50, and were old HP Team not ex DEC...
HP hasnt finished making mistakes... The first big one was the abandon of PA-RISC...
Because of that, we have no more HP srvers here... I can hardly justify my position anymore, thanks I know a little more so now I do mostly SAS integration on AIX and help when I can on AIX Solaris and Linux...
If you want to stay as sysadmin, the easiest for you would be to integrate an AIX team as AIX (IMHO) is the closest in terms of management/administration to HP-UX, and you could be efficient quite fast as smit is more powerful than sam and a good help when you know what you are doing/looking for but dont know all the commands
In any layoff typically there are those that want it and those that don't. Those that are young have no family or small family unit to support no loans to service will typically want to volunteer for it. They are young enough to start over.
I feel for those HP guys over 50 that got laid but I believe they are the lucky ones to get out. The ones that remain have to take on the additional workload and now they are changing the system. Once upon a time those benefits was capped at 25 months, 1 month of each year of service, then they changed it to a 12 month cap. Now there's an ugly rumor they are going to change to 1 week for each year of service cap at 12 thats over 75% cut.
And this has come out converting employees to become contractors
HP layoffs are going on now and involve a new job offer ... but no severance - Business Insider
I learned this back in CSC many years ago, if they announce layoffs it means they budgetted for it, I know this sounds crazy but you should volunteer for it be on the first train to get out. Once they deplete the layoff budget and they haven't managed to achieve their business goals thats when it gets ugly they will resort to all sorts of tricks. I remember in CSC they had 2 layoffs in then a painful pay cut followed by another 2 layoffs.
Once a company announces layoffs it means their business outlook has changed negatively there likely to be more than 1 layoff you should think about that.