Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

@jf It's easy to join the c suite. I'm just not willing to falsify financial documents or perform the kind of favors (ones done on your knees if you tou get what I mean) to certain people that it takes to climb that ladder.

my coworkers just make up numbers for the step challenge. THey just do it for the money. Dell apparently hasn't figured that out yet. Just give everyone the money and just bag the whole step challenge.

You have two perspectives. One from within who’re a bunch of cry babies because the believe they could do better than executive management and then you have executive management that is posting $120 billion for 2026.

Figure out how to join the C-suite and prove you whiners can do better than executive management.

They’ve been selling stuff at a break-even or even lost for years now just to keep the numbers up.

So record sales and record revenue don’t necessarily mean record profit.

@d3 I walk 3-5 miles per day and average about 8k steps.

@cz it's a max of 30k steps per day, that's normal walking around and a 75-90 minute workout each day, not that time consuming or out of the norm for a regular person

Dell’s alright. Having worked for HPE + IBM I can tell you it’s a he-l of a lot better here. Yes you get BS thrown your way but you will get that at any large American company.

Unfortunately these forums are full of people who’ve stagnated here for decades + their managers know they’ll never leave. Then they get surprised when they’re last in line for promotions. If you’re visible and good at your job then you can go far

Just a suggestion…..Don’t join the health step contest unless you are 110% job secure confident. I’m hearing the leadership view is if you’re out stepping you’re not working. So my suggestion is just stay off that list.

It's not all about the quality of the products. It's about what you can sell (revenue), how cheaply it costs you to manufacture the raw goods (cost of revenue) and the cost to build, service, and support the product and services.

Dell leverages, manipulates and builds client relationships better than any of it's competitors. That is the key.

This is the company that had positive growth for like 5 years in the late 00s only to find out they were faking the numbers. They had an exclusivity deal with Intel who paid them not to use AMD. Every time they had a bad quarter they squeezed Intel for more money to pretend they had made a profit. Got in trouble with the SEC.

More recently they got in hot water again for colluding with another company who happens to sell Dell. They would both submit a bid for the Fed or military, agreeing that Dell would go high and the other company would go a little lower but still inflated to win the bid and sell more Dell.

These are the types of financial games they play to continue appearing profitable.

We sell boxes my dude. AI boxes are bigger and more expensive. But they’re in demand. And MD is one of the few who is able to get coveted NVIDIA supply of the latest chips. That’s it. That’s all we have. Boxes with someone else’s chips. And financial games.

20 something trying to understand life.

Thank you for the layoff information.

We are riding the wave of the AI bubble very well. All these hyperscalers and neoclouds are gobbling up AI servers. That said, I firmly believe Dell is too optimistic this wave will continue. Enterprise AI in Dell’s mind (the AI factory) is a pipe dream. And their largest customers are now are competitors. Corporate greed keeps having them double down on this infinite growth.

I can't speak for all products but I am heavily involved with Powerscale, PowerStore, and Unity. All doing very well, though Unity is in the twilight of its life cycle. Of course it helps that we are charging tens of thousands of dollars for hundreds of dollars of hardware then tacking on ten thousand dollar support contracts.

Hit the bricks kid.

Learn to do the needful.

Don't question, put in little effort, collect the check and benefits.

Rinse & repeat.

Pu-y

don't turn 60.