Every week someone new is gone, but no one says much. A couple retire, a few quit, and others just quietly vanish after those small layoffs. It’s strange walking in and realizing another familiar face is missing again. I think this slow drip is going to drag on for a while.
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@d0 replacing people by AI, in support this is a joke NBA is sh-t, most of the chats with VA concierge end act as inactivity from customer even trying more times to bypass the robot and get the chance to get human person getting there cases.
The so-called retirement I believe is the company giving people packages. Perhaps they are saying the condition of your package is to go along with the retirement narrative. I can't be sure. Anyone hear anything about this premise?
@bt as of now we should be between 94k and 96k
Maybe they were office workers who are unnecessary? You don't need so many desk workers doing nothing
yet, y'all stay
I had a colleague in the UK retire last week(I think) no farewell, no goodbye. Just poof! And gone. What a sad state of business when long term employees have such little respect for a company, what has MD done to us?!
@bt Source?
In my team, we’ve lost eight people so far, and none of them have been replaced. Some were put on PIPs, while others transferred to different departments. As a result, the workload has become overwhelming and unsustainable, which will likely push even more people to leave. It’s becoming clear that Dell is trying to cut headcount, possibly with the idea of replacing roles with AI, yet they refuse to acknowledge the growing issue of understaffing across the organization. It almost feels like certain areas are being neglected on purpose.
That's because people think that they are "safe" once their two BIG layoffs a year are over with - February and September - and don't realize that the layoffs are constant. Just in smaller chunks. Maybe 10 people this week, another 10 people in two weeks. Lets do 20 people this week and 8 people next week.
Headcount is below 100k for the first time since emc acquisition.
We had a colleague hitting 20y service anniversary. When I asked Mgr whether any drinks would be arranged, ge looked at me as I was saying some kind of blasphemy.
Welcome to the live-action version of "Survivor", where everyone has the pleasure of discussing who was voted of the island last and trying to form new pacts to stay for just a tad bit longer.
@ac I did the same after 25 years. Ciao!
@ac That's really sad
They think if people are let go, no one else will notice.
I had a whole team just up and disappear on me last week. No announcement, the team is just gone. Poof.
A colleague retired after nearly 21 years. Leaving with no fanfare or even acknowledgement from the directors of the department.