With a pip. What a horrible company
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@f9 max of 6 months. At EMC it was way better. Dell is run by a cheap f*ck who only cares about himself. MD is a fascist opportunist with no backbone.
@de Maybe that's true but I highly doubt it. I have no idea but all I know is you get paid for 1 week of every year you were employed.
@e3 BTW- being laid-off was the best thing that ever happened to me. No more 70 hour weeks, travelling, stress etc.. I have completely walked away from tech. I didn't realize the level of stress I was under. I have a ton of friends still at Dell, and praying for all of you.
I'm sorry about the news. I was laid-off in August after nearly 20 years. Ageism is real. With our governments stance on DEI these days, it has impowered companies to ask things like your age when considering you, knowing that there will be no retribution for breaking the law.
Folks like you and I are being replaced with newbies with zero experience, and thinks Dell's use of AI will make up for their lack of knowledge and experience at half the cost. My guess, this is the real reason we are no longer there: OPEX
Sounds like age discrimination to me. Lawyer up.
@ax 6 mo maximum payout
Well but at least you stayed there for 27 years and earned income. This is something.
Sorry to hear that. There is so much dead weight on teams and it makes no sense anymore who is let go. There’s one on my team whom everyone wonders what he does.
There’s tons of former Directors/Sr Directors who were demoted and really don’t contribute either. They get the same pay, yet were in leadership roles for so long that they can’t do anything tactical. Heck, they still get their office and you never see them. There’s never any leadership for that matter in the office. Yet we plod in and sit at our desks, getting the work done and live in constant anxiety of being let go.
@a2 100% unethical. They hire H1-Bs instead of Americans too. At this point you’ve got some of the biggest POS people running the show. They’ve laid off anyone else who would say “no” or would push back on any of those policies. Dell is a trash company.
It's a sh---y way to go, but at least you get to go.
@a2 Unfortunately, there isn't much solid proof of ageism - even though it IS obvious.
@ad A PIP is a PIP at the end of the day, and no PIP is meant to help you nor enable you to "pass" it. A PIP is designed - all of them - to either force you to quit or give HR a valid - and legal - reason to fire you... without having to pay out a dime.
@a6 I agree that they should but, that would mean they are on the hook for paying out severances + state unemployment...
Current severance is 2 months pay + 1 week pay per year of employment.
So for someone whos been there for 27 years, that'd be about 8-9 months severance + benefits, then state unemployment pay outs. (if the math isn't mathing it's because I'm drunk lol)
Why would Dell willingly choose to pay anybody money if they don't have to?
What a joke. Was it a rev pip? or one of the new made-up ones? Go on to bigger and better
Some of us want to go; they should prioritize us. Dell, put out a VSP and let us take them!
What area? This company is insanely unethical, and I hope somebody sues them for ageism.