All this talk about more layoffs is making me nervous.
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If you have a EMC mgr who relies on his team to do his own job while he is busy vacationing 4 times in 6 months, then be assured your org has mediocre performance.
If he has built his team by hiring his friends and has missed the AOP then dust off your resume.
These 65 yr old are not here to improve their work. They wfr people who fix any gaps in deliverables, because the senior citizens are hired at high salaries and cannot afford to be seen to make basic mistakes until they retire from dell.
Result affects business.
"We work for one of the best technology companies in the world."
No. Not even close. Dell is a tier 4 or 5 company at this point. It's just doing enough to stay afloat. Not through innovation but by slashing costs. If dell could harvest your dna legally for money they would
@3nyy+1plsyI9U Agree with most of what you have said but best technology company?
Dell is asleep at the wheel and behind everyone else.AI has been a big talking point for a few years now and Dell has only jumped on the trend.
Cuts will happen and Dell will survive but we are not the best.
Quote from poster @2ydo+1plsyI9U - "Layoffs hourly form here on in until company fades into oblivion"
Firstly, Dell won't be fading into oblivion anytime soon. Just not going to happen. Could it be bought over by a bigger company? Sure, but in that regard anything can happen in a world of constant corporate consolidation. We work for one of the best technology companies in the world. It's just true, whatever people might feel about the culture etc.
Think about this situation re WFR's? Dell bought a huge corporation, EMC, and subsumed a significantly large workforce. The weight of that take over is still, 7 years later, a huge overhead burden. There was always going to be a downsizing of some sort particularly if the bo-m in sales (through Covid) started to shrink. There's going to be a realignment on staffing numbers. Had to happen. I don't like it, and the implied threat that some of us will lose our jobs, however, this is how corporations work,
Take Schmitt's announcement from weeks ago? Dell WILL move as many technical jobs as possible (field service, deployment, tech support etc) to supply partners. It's cheaper, you remove the overhead off the P&L and that cost becomes an operational cost on the books, not an overhead.
Anyone in management will tell you, you don't need to second guess this if you don't know, WFR's ARE happening constantly at the moment. Dell needs to reduce it's overheads, its internal costs and hopefully realign the worker profiles to suit what will be needed for the future.
Sadly, or maybe happily for some, there WILL be redundancies and people will leave. Michael D is in this game too long not to know where the focus is needed and the actions it'll take to get there.
@2ndw+1plsyI9U Yeah pretty much feel the same.
I would give just about anything for a business update email now. Been here 17 years and its the worst I have ever seen it.
I am praying that I get that package!!!
Layoffs hourly form here on in until company fades into oblivion.
Nothing till November and Feb/March
A “Business Update” email is an invite to a meeting where you are WFR’d.
What is the business update email? A lay off email?
Please let this week be the week the business update email hits my inbox
I don't think any of us are safe... just do your best to prepare if you get the "business update" email.
2 AE’s in Belgium got laid off
I can't tell if this is a sh-t post
I heard more coming in November.
take a gummie and relax.
Next week and after. This week is EOQ
I haven’t heard anything in the Western Europe! But then lay offs never really stopped