Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Many of my colleagues haven't heard their Tell Dell statistics. They may be waiting until after the beginning of August.

Still haven't heard about Tell Dell results for our group.

is that an adam sandler reference?

I LOVE my direct manager. He's easily the best manager I've ever had in my entire career. I have no beef with HIM but I do have beef with HIS boss's. Which unfortunately, I cannot rate. My manager is amazing and does his best to make us happy and actively pursues promotions but, he can only do so much.

JC can go put a shampoo bottle up his bottom because he's the one making everybody hate Dell.

I liked my direct manager a lot. But after co versations about how disappointed I was at our company for making poor choices in their leadership style, i realized she had nothing to offer me in terms of stability or comfort in my current role. She had no power at all. So I stopped rating her highly as I saw this was all a ploy to get a higher enps surgery score. They sc--w our direct managers over by tethering their progress as leaders to the enps score. Its so manipulative when they make bad choices that effect IC and managers equally and force our nice manager to be the talking head for their bad decisions. I tried to rate her highly hoping she'd pass on our feedback but I soon realized they dont listen to her either so the last two years I tanked enps survey score to send a message to her leaders that I wont be manipulated anymore.

I feel bad she gets a low score but she gets paid more knowing this was how it is and I won't lie on my survey anymore. I would never recommend ANYONE to work at Dell the way they treat us. I have an interview today at another conpany and I can't wait to ditch this dumpster fire company.

I think it’s actually possible that a lot of people like their immediate boss and maybe one level above them. Many of us know them and see them as people who are in the same trenches with us and who do their best to look out for their team in a sh---y environment at a sh---y company. Our beef is with JC and the ELT who are leading this company off a cliff.

@b8 yeah people feel used and abused

Wow the Agentic Downvote AI Bot is working overtime! SAD!

I never fill it out. Whenever someone asks me my opinion, I figure it's a trap. Everything ends up being we-ponized and used against employees. They already know how people feel.

@ay yuuuuuup! Exactly lmao... this is the first year everr I didn't fill mine out, what's the point??

They also didn't post the percentage of people who even bothered to complete the TD survey. spoiler alert, it's also the lowest in history. Everyone realizes it is pointless.

I see the vote leveling bot has chanced tactics and is now a vote down bot.

I'd like for them to stop messing around and let me rate MD and JC independently of my immediate leadership. My immediate leadership is fantastic. My angst is with the top two (and their directs)

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Managers may be cool, but they don’t hold any power. They’re middle-layer buffers in a broken system. Heck, even they know the system is BS.

Exactly! These surveys aren’t measuring leadership effectiveness they’re measuring how well we’ve been trained to play along.

Even if your manager su-ks, you smile, nod, and click “Strongly Agree” because self-preservation > honesty.

I guess only my team in okc really tells them what we actually think. Been at Dell for 17 years, never had any blowback from putting in what I really think