Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Limerick has loads of room but not enough desks so bring in your beach chair and work with the laptop on your lap

Any reports of the space situation in Limerick?

@f9+1jmmas6g6 Enough seats but low mood and canteen is pushed to breaking most days as its smaller.Parking will also be a challenge.

Throw Richard Parker out, smiley, good feelie type guy whose had his nose up managements a-s since he moved to Ireland.

No idea where everyone will go in Cherrywood. One building long gone to other tenants and the 2nd floor given over to DFS. The Dell carpark at the back of the biz park is gone as well. I've often come in to find no free desk in my "neighbourhood" so end up sitting with people in other teams. We want you back 5 days but god forbid we make it comfortable.

I will not be attending the Cork site until there are enough desks for everyone, if that gets me fired then so be it

"It's time to play musical chairs, the lad without the seat gets sent packing."

I visited a customer site (during my time with EMC). All their technical staff were seated at long tables (think school cafeteria style ). The staff were literally bumping elbows when they typed. Many of the seats had faulty wheels or ripped upholstery. The worst thing about this is that there was at least one seat missing from each table. I you had to leave your place for any reason, the chances were that your seat would be gone when you got back (or maybe exchanged for a faulty one). Is this the future for Dell offices? Picnic benches anyone?

It's time to play musical chairs, the lad without the seat gets sent packing.

I'll bring me caravan and work in that in the carpark......boss.

I am going to bring my beach chair and cooler to put my lunch in.

Bring your own desk and chair you lazy fu-k! What do you think we do here, pay for your comfort? You’re lucky you have a job. Now shut the fu-k up and sell some fu--ing computers for fu--s sake.

They want people to quit so they won't figure it all out till enough people quit first.

Solution is bunk desks, 3 stories ones. You come in early and sit on top, spitting on losers beneath....

2 chairs at a desk?

I've got something for you to sit on Pottsie!

picnic tables with benches. That's your future

Unfortunately, I think a lot of companies are doing this. Let's see how many people we can get rid of. Then when the dust settles, work it out. Hopefully, the future work environment will swing back but for now, it doesn't look to good.

They don't know or care about the lack of searing in Ireland. Ireland is not an area of investment going forward so with natural attrition and no hiring, the numbers will come down organically

"Support are in 5 days in cork "

Genuinely curious as to where they are going to put everyone given the fact they only refurbished one floor in CB2 and closed the others

Decisions being made by people whose offices are larger than most people’s homes.

No assigned seating, no raise to accommodate for commute, and not enough space. This place is a joke.

No worries, they are solving that side of the equation

Is it 2 people per toilet too? Sounds like a Foxxcon model.

Dell should have used a computer to calculate the head count vs. the number of chairs. Dell could maybe buy a computer from SuperMicro to get that job done.

That is exactly it. It was a knee je-k reaction based on feelings rather than data. Just like most of the decisions made by any of the c-suite crowd. The ship has no compas, no rudder and no captain. We are just expected to keep rowing.

Support are in 5 days in cork