Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Data Point for Coffee Badgers

9% raise in US. Just swapped teams, so my salary was already market adjusted in the winter last year. I do work hard, but I definitely take time to do my own sh-t if work is slowed down a sec or take a nap. I was forced into hybrid and coffee badged (less than 5 min in office) for the minimum 29 days, so I could work at my home office.

All this to be said if you are SWE and you are getting sh-t done, just go home. We are all adults and unless your team is filled with snitches then enjoy your life, it's way too short.

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I’d seriously consider coffee badging but the coffee is a-s

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Post ID: @bw+1jpd17tz2

"A lot of these posts seem to be spin or HR esque propaganda.

"work hard, get your job done, non is monitoring you, be an adult, blah blah""

Fully agree. Those geniuses at the top are very infantile as they just copy/pasting monkey style what other companies do. They should start behaving as adults themselves first.

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Post ID: @bm+1jpd17tz2

Definitely didn't comply with what they wanted since what they wanted was for me to quit. Coffee badging is more about making the job work for me and my family. Dell will lay me off when they can, and from my data point the time I spend in office isn't a metric they care about past the badge data.

I just have heard a lot of people fear mongering even since last year that they're tracking time on network, and that doesn't seem to factor in since I don't even bring my laptop with me.

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Post ID: @bb+1jpd17tz2

Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known throughout the land that the coffee badgers, those tireless beasts of boundless vigor, do stir in the shadowed groves, ever in pursuit of the sacred brew. By royal decree, let all men of wisdom take heed: their ceaseless consumption of the dark elixir dost render them both swift and cunning, yet beware! For their veins run thick with frenzy, and their eyes burn with the embered fire of wakefulness. Let no fool cross a coffee badger unawares, lest he find himself ensnared in their jittering wrath! So speaks the King!

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Post ID: @ay+1jpd17tz2

What makes you so special? Do you think you earned a gold star for complying? But did you really do what was required by MD and his cohorts? I think you did not.

You did prove though that Dell is not tracking time in the office which would suggest everyone should follow this good boy formula.

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Post ID: @ax+1jpd17tz2

OP here. Totally agree. I dont know how to spin wasting an hour and a half of my life driving without sounding like HR is in the room. I just know a lot of people are trying to find the good boy formula, and for me it was NOT time in office

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Post ID: @a2+1jpd17tz2

A lot of these posts seem to be spin or HR esque propaganda.

"work hard, get your job done, non is monitoring you, be an adult, blah blah"

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