From The Register - Headline: 41 years later, Dell discovers "doublethink" Orwell predicted this.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/01/31/dell_ends_hybrid_work_policy/

Orwell predicted this. Big Brother Mike instructs us to believe simultaneously that:

“If you are counting on forced hours spent in a traditional office to create collaboration and provide a feeling of belonging within your organization, you’re doing it wrong. (Michael Dell, 9/7/2022 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-key-hybrid-work-michael-dell/)”

and

"Starting March 3, all hybrid and remote team members who live near a Dell office will work in the office five days a week".

Meanwhile, employees have no designated work areas, no local personal item storage, no dedicated PCs, and no clue as to how these directives will be implemented. And 12,500 layoffs later, one must wonder if this RTO is really an enabling technique to reduce headcount since AI is going to fix all of our problems and satisfy all of our needs. Or if it's just a means of kissing Trumpian a-s because His Orangeness hath decreed that all Federal employees shall RTO, and since Dell has a significant number of Federal contracts, they better damn sight toe the line.

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"why would it be a bad thing to bring the manufacturing of this stuff back to the US? It would provide good paying jobs for US workers."

“Remember you said this when the price of just about everything we get from other countries is 3-4x what it is now. Yes it could create more good jobs for US workers, but us workers cost the companies significantly more and manufacturers will pass that on to consumers”

Understood. But you can’t have it both ways. And I think 3-4x is a bit hyperbolic, but sure, stuff will cost more than it does when manufactured with child/slave labor

"why would it be a bad thing to bring the manufacturing of this stuff back to the US? It would provide good paying jobs for US workers."

Remember you said this when the price of just about everything we get from other countries is 3-4x what it is now. Yes it could create more good jobs for US workers, but us workers cost the companies significantly more and manufacturers will pass that on to consumers.

“ Everything is political. Most of Dell's hardware has components from China, our ONLY Federally compliant factory for our largest mitary deals is in Mexico. We pretty much make most of our profit on those federal contracts. Work and life is about to get significantly harder Trump does not back off these tariffs”

Tarrifs are a political tactic and both Mexico and Canada will capitulate. But why would it be a bad thing to bring the manufacturing of this stuff back to the US? It would provide good paying jobs for US workers. The kind of thing Bernie rants about…. Just let this thing play out….these countries need the US far more than we need them.

This RTO sh-t was decided long before Trump won an election.

You people need more hobbies.

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Everything is political. Most of Dell's hardware has components from China, our ONLY Federally compliant factory for our largest mitary deals is in Mexico. We pretty much make most of our profit on those federal contracts. Work and life is about to get significantly harder Trump does not back off these tariffs.

Michael has been prostrating himself for Elon and Trump. That's a fact as well.

So please, stop tuning out just because you don't enjoy someone putting the blame on Trump. Please just look up for a minute and realize what's going on. No one is asking you to become a blue-haired liberal. Just realize what Trump is doing is not in the citizens' best interest and Our CEO is supporting his every step while said CEO is also making life unbearable as possible to force out employees at his company.

These are bad people. These are powerful people.

Okay, you had to ruin it with the political comment. You sir are a mo--n.

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