OMFG NO, they want to "OUST" beloved Susie Wiles, the enabler who made so much of 2026 POSSIBLE? WOKE! SAD!

[Miles Archer]

18. Cisco is an ongoing shell game.

If you look at their profit and loss cycles, "profit" cycles are usually preceded by some form of restructuring and layoffs.

The "profits" are often salaries no longer being paid.

There's also a steady undercurrent of cruelty in play. When I worked there, John Chambers was still CEO. They framed him as a soft-spoken benign Buddha figure. When I left...I took the same severance package as 8000 fellow employees, including my boss (a decent guy who remains a friend), Chambers was interviewed in his office. He basically said the people who were laid off had it coming because it dismayed him that he would look out his window and see so many cars gone after 5 PM.

So many of the "perks" Cisco offered...fitness center, multiple cafeterias with a WIDE array of international cuisines / food choices, were not there because they loved their employees. IT'S BECAUSE THEY NEVER WANTED THEM TO LEAVE THE OFFICE.

We got a contemporary taste of this when Musk took over Twitter and expected the employees to sleep at the office (and provide their own toilet paper).