Our SVP sent an email stating “this is your opportunity to show your commitment to ensuring we are successful”.
What do they think I’ve been doing these last 18 years?! How condescending and insulting. I love my job but let’s not forget I’m only here because I need a paycheck. There’s more to life than work. I hope folks remember that. Life is short. Do your job. Do it well. Then spend your energy on the things that fulfill you!
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A lot of nepotism at the top and often benefiting those who are not qualified. While those with the brains are pushed down (to not outshine anyone at the top) or out. In some organizations worse than others but sad to see the reality of the company today.
https://www.vox.com/money/23733244/bullsh-t-jobs-work-employment-lazy-jobless-employed-nothing-to-do
SVPs are the Yes Men and Women of Dell. Useless the lot of them. overpaid privileged out of touch mediocrity is the name of the game for SVPs in Dell.
They want us to work from break room and cafeteria as even the booked rooms are already taken by someone else.
Our SVP’s are talentless nobodies who “know” someone or have spent their entire career either at EMC or Dell. They couldn’t come up with more generic strategies or approaches.
They’re incredibly out of touch with todays technology, squirrel around it, desperately looking to find anything to help them extend into a new market. They put their friends into positions of power where they have no business being and in the end, they actually believe they are a bunch of somebodies.
Most likely your SVP didn’t even come up with those words. If we replaced the SVPs got executives who were in touch with what was going on in the industry and still didn’t think it was still 2005 we’d be in a much better spot.
BTW if I was Michael Dell I’d be thinking about how I’m going to fix my revenue, so we don’t lose 9%, get my shares to at least a competitive level with organizations of my size, focus on strategic execution and not worry about RTO.
Dell doesn’t have offices but VP/SVP will take over entire conference rooms for years on end (before the pandemic). It was crazy any time I wanted to book a room and every damn meeting room/conf room was marked private and booked indefinitely.
I’d love to see how much time these out of touch SVPs spend at these tiny loud open cube desks trying to get work done. Over the years Dell leadership has lost all empathy and humanity. My leaders used to actually do work so they understood what their teams want and needed; now they just crack the whip from the comfort of their third vacation home
Kids in 3rd world countries have better gaming setups than you a tech pro
hahahha
I love coming back to office with one tiny 20” screen, a fisher price mouse and keyboard, sand paper TP, and flickering fluorescent lights. I feel so productive already!
there's the proof how out of touch they are.
What is the opportunity? Return to office ?
sinking ship. they treat the people like furniture so efff em