Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

I wish they would lay me off!!!! 23 years with EMC/Dell and it continues to be the "worst place to work" in my 50+ years in the industry. It seems to be part of Dell DNA to bully and never take ownership in any way shape or form. It is a "throw it over the fence" menatality that is sure to sink the ship in the long run, and makes Dell a terrible place to work for anyone unfortunate enough to still be there. Horrible company, fraudulent benefits (HR encourages health insurance providers to use "step therapy/fail first" on all employee and family policies, a type of malpractice now banned in half of US states. But Dell encourages this!

HR's performance in the WFR process was poor in my case. The person didn't bother to attend the awkward meeting where my manager read the WFR script.

Later in the week, as I worked through all the admin tasks while wrestling with fear and uncertainty, I sent a simple email question to my HR rep. She snapped back a rude email scolding me for contacting her directly and told me to only engage via the ticket and generic mailbox. Way to read a room, HR!

Dell leadership is trash, for the most part. There are still good managers but VP and SVP are the absolute worst. HR does not care - they exist only to be on layoff calls and prepare paperwork - that is it. Otherwise useless.

"Oh and unethical and incredibly legally questionable things as a manager"

At the tech support department, there was a manager who was firing employees without cause. Despite numerous complaints to HR, no action was taken. As a result, top performers were leaving his team to work under other managers. Fortunately, he is no longer with the company. This guy was an S-B.

Unless you start your own business, you run the risks of these things at any company

Dell is a wretched place to work. Fear of the marketplace shouldn't keep you from trying to exit. Other companies have brighter futures than Dell. Employees are still invested in and valued. At Dell, every employee is simply a liability pending the next opportunity to offshore, automate away, or simply discard. Another unfortunate thing is that staying at Dell seriously risks your skills becoming atrophied and out of step with the marketplace. The way Dell has evolved its finance function, for example, is terrible. It turns out that constantly churning through re-orgs and hassling sales for SFDC deal updates is really not world class financial skills that other companies give a damn about.

“LOL your top 4 things happen at every large company”

Nope

LOL your top 4 things happen at every large company

Oh and unethical and incredibly legally questionable things as a manager