Should I take it as good news that there has been very little if any discussion on actual layoffs lately? Is it finally slowing down?
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What i have seen is dell is following Dilbert principle, promote only the most incompetent
Peter Principle is true for most of the more tenured people here that one wonders why the f is this person still here despite its lack of ability to learn on the job, do things better, actually know what it is doing, who are mostly in managerial and directors and some VPs roles.
Directors in pip Is very common. See Peter Principle in administration
i heard my director is in PIP, is it something weireD?
PIPs never went away, management sees them as a tool to reduce headcount and Opex without having to pay severance as they would if it were a RIF.
In my last position there was constant threat of PIP if ALL the ridiculous and meaningless spreadsheet metrics weren't met. I've never worked anywhere else that a VP of sales was micromanaging people at the bottom of the org chart for compliance with his arbitrary metrics, I put up with it for as long as it took to find another position at a different company then out the door I went and haven't looked back.
Now that I've been at a job elsewhere for a while it's easy to see just how F'd up Dell is and how desperate management is getting to keep the $ flowing, their lack of a real cloud presence and strategy in a market that is heading quickly in that direction will be the iceberg that sinks the ship. The fact that MD buried the company financially with the EMC boondoggle means that by the time they have resources to try and change direction it will be too late to join the cloud bandwagon, best thing anyone can do is get out now or go down with the ship.
PIPs are back just got one though I have performed no worse and certainly better than others on the team but I am older, higher bad etc so to lessen their risk of lawsuits Dell uses the PIP to force you out. I am if two minds intensely dislike the lack of a coehesive strategy at Dell, and the always looming fear of layoffs and account shuffles , I do enjoy certain aspects of my job. May be a blessing get out breath fresh air , new people
dell theory no 1, layoff the costly overpaid 140 IQ smart one and replace with a cheap two 70 IQ nutheads in a low cost country, so mathematically they could justify the actions based on directors excel skills. when these things are put in colors everything seems to be cool and it shows that management are working hard to make sure dell is paying the debt.
touching the equilibrium - there is a hidden program which runs for a while to make sure average IQ of the employees should not cross more than 80 and for management it is 70, it is puzzling why 80 was fixed.
if in doubt, anyone can conduct an organizational wide test for IQ and the result won't deviate a bit.
challenge.
layoffs were occurring yesterday, so no, it's not over
With the amount of debt Dell holds you ask that?
@1xjw -- You're wrong. The layoffs of the bottom 5% is not happening at Dell. There are some excellent, highly effective people and entire groups being impacted. Those who stay are ones who are well connected and part of the "old boys" network.
hire a good worker into a team of dead woods, they and the manager itself will work for the first time to get rid of the "threat" so things remain incompetent.
a good layoff plan will always keeps the organization as fresh and competition among employees helps to create better products for the customers , company should let go 4 5% bottom performers when time comes, that should exercise across all geographical regions
company should not keep deadwoods who doesn't care about anything other than monthly paychecks, there are so many such people sitting on every floor, please help them to do something better with their life rather giving them paycheck every month, if people don't grow, company won't grow.
dell is always overstaffed, in reality most are incompetent and worthless, a good person cannot be replaced with bad 100 people reason bad is not a substitute for good. it may workout for few times, but over a period it will degrade the performance of the system.
hire the right and the best, challenge them, create a competitive environment, things will change,
hire a bad one, organizations can collapse in no time, bad brings more bad, that is the way of survival for them, if you see a c---roach, that is not the only one out there, thousands are hiding behind the scene.
No, never!!! The axe is always swinging...
Nope, more to come at the end of Q2.....
By no means is it done, this is the planning period for the next wave. Dell has always made the big cuts at the start of the fiscal year in February and at the start of the second half. Rest assured the upper echelons are working the spreadsheets to see how many heads have to roll in August to make the numbers work for H2.
no more layoff because people are willingly actively leaving. HR get what they want driving mostly good young people out from distrust and threats. New management in India driving people from other regions out then replace with their own friends and families.