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AirMI carnage

Talked to a former coworker who has survived the carnage at AirMI. The breadth of layoffs on the technical team is breathtaking. Either the plan is to move airbag manufacturing overseas and ignore all of the IP-related arguments to keep production in the US, or the forecast for future airbag development and production is dismal for many years out. Either way, a team that was creative, talented, and nimble has been decimated and will never be the same.


IP Address Tracking is now live for RTO

Just an FYI. Our division head was told Friday, IP address tracking and log in times are now being used to cross check FULL days in office. The reporting has always been around, senior management is now reviewing on a monthly basis.
There is discussion regarding adding a dropdown when logging in as well. Attesting when you are logging in, In Office or Remote.

I’ve never worked at a place where they put this much effort into trying to punish employees.


NetRise lays waste to BIG IP NEXT....

https://www.netrise.io/xiot-security-blog/when-the-secure-stack-isnt-so-secure-lessons-from-the-f5-incident

I was an employee of F5 for a number of years. Development of F5 products (especially BIG IP NEXT) suffered from a number of significant issues - the largest being ego. The architects and senior/principle developers could do no wrong. Because of their titles, they couldn't be questioned - they didn't have to explain their decisions.

If a test showed a problem, then the problem was that the test was written incorrectly. Go write it so that it passes.

The mindset of the majority of the engineers was coding for the golden path. Because of that it was easy pickings to find issues using the mindset of a hacker - do all those things that had not been protected against. Push and push hard. Three years at F5 were painful - BIG IP NEXT should never never have been released. My director ignored all of the data provided that it was not architected well, not designed well, and coding was an abomination.

BIG IP NEXTs short life is proof of this. It was good to see this article to confirm.


What does an IP rating mean?

Got an IP after a great performance year because I worked from home some Fridays last year. Manager never thought it was an issue and never said anything to me until I got a warning in late summer, then the IP rating overrode the EP she entered for me at year end. She was totally blindsided by the warning and the rating. Aside from RTO being a complete joke of a policy to begin with, nevermind that they kept managers in the dark about enforcement, what does this IP rating mean for my income?

I assume no bonus, no raise, no new shares? Will my current vested shares still pay out next March?

Talked to HR and Emp Relations and they just protect Abby's billions, neither could answer my simple questions, so need to ask here.


Non-bankruptcy options ahead?

I am not saying CH11 is or is not imminent. But more actions are ahead. Some potentials:

  1. More RIFs and firings
  2. Changes to the severance policy to reduce total payment obligations
  3. Avoiding pension fund contributions, forcing 0% lump sum option
  4. Sale of the company
  5. High risk schemes like selling our IP, reducing Microsoft license levels, buying auditors

More slideware than software IP

Altho i hv no stats, i expect we produce more slides on a daily basis than we do lines of code that actually build us any sort of IP.

And what's depressing is that most of the slideware is just rehash, update, and repackaging of the same old cr-p.

I'm one of the thousands of slide jockey here, so the irony of this post isn't lost on me but hey, tomorrow is another new week in which I'll do the same old sh-t as I've for the past many years.