Long releases, may be once a year. During the release most teams dev/qa/support and others have no work for at least 6 months. It's such a relaxed/laid back work environment. Come late blame it on traffic, leave early to beat the traffic and claim... — read more
What do managers really do
Attend few meeting and keep track of engineers time off, as we got rid of Kronos Company is not bad, its managers that protects certain employees from being laid off at the expense of others. Managers don't care about storage technology, upcoming... — read more
PSE Santa Clara Laid Off Today
We had an all hands meeting today. All of DellEMC Product Storage Engineering under Bill Depatie based out of Santa Clara got the axe. Unsure how many people. Part of a larger "globalization" (read: anti-US) restricting efforts by Mike Dell. What a... — read more
It's coming, just pray all evil and back stabbing employees and managers were wiped out.
http://m.crn.com/slide-shows/channel-programs/300084563/5-things-to-know-about-dell-technologies-416m-job-cutting-program.htm
Exclusive: Dell Technologies Is Selling This Cloud Group
http://fortune.com/2017/04/20/dell-spanning-cloud/
Did anybody get a PIP after FMLA?
Did anybody get a PIP after FMLA?
Dell Technologies Earmarks $416M For Terminations, Pushes Ahead With EMC Cuts
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/300084509/dell-technologies-earmarks-416m-for-terminations-pushes-ahead-with-emc-cuts.htm
March Total Bankruptcy Filings, 2007-17-http://www.abi.org/newsroom/chart-of-the-day/march-total-bankruptcy-filings-2007-17
Peddle Faster Dell Peons. You life depends on it . No need to have a life outside work.
Dell Technologies reports $3.3B operating loss in FY17
http://www.ciodive.com/news/dell-technologies-reports-33b-operating-loss-in-fy17/439415/
Dell EMC Puts Pressure On Partners To Boost Sales, Maintain Tier Status
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/300083580/dell-emc-puts-pressure-on-partners-to-boost-sales-maintain-tier-status.htm
Dell EMC canning XtremIO file services project FluidFS frozen as XtremIO roadmap refocuses on block
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/03/dell_emc_canning_xtremio_file_services_project/
Dell EMC North America President Is Stepping Down, Lenovo-Dell Veteran Is Replacing Him
http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/300084465/dell-emc-north-america-president-is-stepping-down-lenovo-dell-veteran-is-replacing-him.htm
Dell warns PC slowdown threatens transition to infrastructure sales Form 10-K says Dell's manufacturing methods are losing relevance and sales i
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/03/dell_form_10_k_2016/
Do you feel inspired yet or brainwashed? Dell EMC World Las Vegas 2017: Wednesday General Session Promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCN9ur8bG1M
This should be end of NDC
I have some crucial information about bad employees in Hopkinton,MA and Nashua,NH. I am going to send a write up to 100+ editors across the globe. Hopefully few will publish the article and some justice will be done. I told HR and Dell ethics, but... — read more
Tips for surviving in a nut shell at Dell Emc
Neither Dell nor Emc storage management will give a damn, all you have to do is---don't hurt their ego Developers: just do what your told, don't use your knowledge to make the product any better Release Engg: just adhere to branching and version... — read more
FluidFS is No More :( 20% Fired at XtremIO
It seems that post merger of DELLEMC is having a serious (callous) rethink about its Data Storage Strategy. The FluidFS product is no more. XtremIO fired a number of workers yesterday. All outsourced staff and a number of its fixed workers. Approx 20... — read more
The laptop is dead -http://www.computerworld.com/article/3186782/computer-hardware/the-laptop-is-dead.html?idg_eid=796670476d4a986a1fbc5e9a3febc
Peddle faster Dell peons. LOB needs your help
Reshuffling of employees
I have been moved from Flash to Cloud in the recent weeks along with LOTS of other employees in a ditch effort to compete with AWS/Azure. Looks like the VS teams are trying to get the numbers up in order to possibly sell off this division which has... — read more
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS on Dell/EMC
The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL. The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL. The sport of choice for... — read more
During mergers, layoffs, redundancies and cost cut downs employees just move on with their lives.
In case of DELL EMC there is so much animosity, the blame goes to managers. When you feel you are the best, always did a great contribution and lost your job......it's a bad feeling. Best engineers solve the problems, they go to different company and... — read more
"We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in.......
"We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come—namely, technological unemployment" - Keynes, 1930
Layoff Wednesday coming?
Seems to be the new game - all watch and wait
Is it better to be laid off or to know you are being pushed out? Go with your gut.
Thanks for letting me vent. ( I'll be appropriate.) Please do comment if you had a similar experience. Others will benefit by acknowledging the problem and seeing a path for better days. I was let go a while back and yes I was angry with the way I... — read more
Michael Dell Cares?
I find it funny (and rather sad) that people on this board say that Michael Dell has good intentions, and that he cares etc..... Having worked for Dell for 15 years, and having spent 30 years in the Hi-Tech industry, I can honestly say that Michael... — read more
"We're hiring!"?!
http://twitter.com/MichaelDell/status/841747569902460930 Check out Mike's tweet
U.S. Retail Sales in February Post Smallest Gain in Six Months https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/u-s-retail-sales-in-february-
Make sure you peddle fast and sell those much needed Laptops/Desktops/Server/Storage and BS to keep your job
May is the cruellest month - especially for these California storage techies https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/13/layoffs_at_dssd_california
Wait till 2nd Half
Networking was hit with some fat trimming but.....
Networking was hit with some fat trimming but..... not all the dead weight was cut. We lost three in total and despite what those three think or say they were warned but couldn't get past their egos to see what was coming. Others in Dell were... — read more