If anyone was safe, I thought it was him. Dell just threw away decades of institutional knowledge like it meant nothing. I don't think they realize what they’ve done, or worse, they do and just don’t care. Nobody here seems to be thinking about the future anymore. Just squeezing short-term gains out of layoffs.
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@rw Su-ks bro. I haven't worked more than 10hrs a week since I've been at Dell.
@rt
Speak for yourself, my days are solid 8-hour grinds. From the moment I clock in until the day ends, it’s nonstop work with no breaks. Honestly, it feels more like a sweatshop than a regular job.
@bf a few years ago, my team lost someone who was at Dell for 25 years. Manager said he was affected by the WFR. He wasn't much of a loss in all honesty though... Nice guy but difficult to work with and talked way too much.
I'm not totally sure how they decide who is let go and who isn't but, if I had to guess, it's based off of performance, likeability/ease to work with, salary, years at Dell, age, and how well you are/aren't liked.
@bf Realistically, a lot of people don't work more than a few hours/day. I'm talking ACTUAL work, not just being "online" and "available."
For me personally, my job absolutely does not have 8 hours worth of work every day. I'd say in a given week, I'm only truly working roughly 15 hours/week at most if you take away all the pointless meetings I have to be in. I'm a senior engineer and while some days are busy af, most days I get my work done by 11am and then just have to attend meetings. Most of which could easily be wrapped up in an email.
Realistically, I can finish the majority of my Jira Sprint in like 6 hours but choose to drag it out and do bits and pieces of it daily; rather than in one chunk.
The rest of the day I take naps, watch netflix, play video games, walk my dog, run errands, take another nap, sometimes even go take a swim for a while. Very few jobs actually have 8 entire hours filled with work. Not just at Dell but in general. MOST jobs can be done in well under 40 hours/week.
It would be unspeakable if a few dummy managers steamrolling these layoffs were signed up to Scientology, just for kiks
I got my call Monday. 10 years. Currently 101% to my goals. Only ever missed goal 4 times in 10 years.
Got a package. Some very kind words from my RSD and told friday is the end.
Told I was immediately rehirable.
SB is hiring like crazy.
I'm still in shock some and trying to figure out what I'll do. I haven't job hunted since my 20s. It's wild how much the decisions and who's been cut feel like that make 0 sense.
People who are left now have double the workout or accounts. No comp change to benefit and are told "your safe for atleast 6 months"
It's sad. And it hurts.
Which Scott? Is he some VP? Please state a full name.
Have faith in the sm tshirt
from a Field Sales Director "Its going to be 6 months of he-l before it starts getting better" and my biggest complaint is that no one in the field has a clue what success in this new Dell actually is, it isn't quota attainment because they have fired folks who made goal (and retained MANY who didn't!), it isn't politics (at least at a field level) as they just squished the sh-t of the middle management tier and obliterated the hierarchies, it isn't DEI anymore as more women and people of color are being told to find new positions with only a week or so heads up.
@bf
Probably a VP.
My partner got the axe yesterday after 17 years. Beloved by all her clients, high performer, and likely on the lower end of compensation for that role too. It’s a shame, but I think it’ll end up being a good thing when she’s scooped up by a company that will appreciate her insane work ethic and problem solving skills.
Some people on some thred said they only work 2h a day. And still survive.
@a1 it's actually your parole that got approved when I got clipped everyone was so happy for me
@ba Agreed - I've always felt that Dell way overvalues the money they could count and way undervalues the things they can't count
Disruptive changes are easy for management to implement because they are manipulating the limited metrics that they have visibility into. They know their OPEX and payroll costs down to a penny. Cutting a 20 year veteran can put 200K back on the PNL. It's difficult to track lost sales and lost accounts, so management doesn't consider that as a metric. There are no consequences to your business decisions if you ignore the results! You can massacre employees by the thousands and claim victory on cost savings and efficiency! Mention AI and blame lost accounts and market share declines on a tough market, tariffs, or throw the new account team under the bus.
Who exactly was he? What team did he work with, and where was he based?
Everyone's just browsing online, riding the current layoff wave like it’s business as usual.
@a3 scott was completely useless of course he is bootlicking.
Dell has absolutely no clue how to handle people. Let me give you an example: I was part of a tiny team—just six of us—pulling in over $30 million a year for the company. Then one day, out of nowhere, they decided to shut us down because upper management couldn’t figure out how to manage us. I’m not even kidding. Completely ridiculous.
The very same day we were let go, Dell started bleeding big accounts—because guess what? Nobody else knew how to do what we did. Some clients jumped ship to HP, others hung on for a while before giving up. The damage was massive. The reputation hit was even worse. And it all came down to a couple of clueless project managers making short-sighted calls.
That was the day I realized something important: if our high-performing department could be axed just like that, it meant the company's priorities were totally out of sync with what the customers actually needed. And sure enough, more departments followed us down the drain.
The worst part? Those project managers never faced any consequences. No accountability. They didn’t even try to calculate how much money was lost—easily in the hundreds of millions. Total trainwreck.
I can see them making the same mistake all over again. They're still stuck in this short-term mindset—always chasing quick savings without any ability to think beyond a year or two. Long-term strategy? Completely out of their depth.
They'll replace him with cheap h1b visa holders.
1000 views on this thread in just 50 minues - crazy.
is anyone working today?
dont get me wrong, i am as guilty as the next person.
@OP They just don't care. When things break over the next two months they still won't care. They'll convince themselves it couldn't be prevented, that it's all good enough and keep going into the next round of layoffs in December and April and August. Good leadership and smart decision making, like Elvis, has left the building.
@OP Dell doesn’t care about the loss of know how. Perhaps worst comp ever at knowledge mgt
What org was this in?
Are you talking about Scott?
The absurd part is how much bootlicking he did in his goodbye email. Lmao talm bout "....as part of the company’s ongoing effort to sharpen its focus and invest where it can deliver the most impact, I fully support the decisions our leadership has made"
Dude got fired after 23 years, almost certainly for no good reason, and he's still su-kling the Dell ch--e.
You people seem to think these are efficiency or strategy cuts.
they are not. dell is in a death spiral and trying to ween away weight to slow it down.
That's what they do, I was 26 years in when I got the call in Feb 2023. 🤣