Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Manager with bad scores who got demoted to IC talking on team call today about mental health and the toll and anxiety layoffs are causing. What about the people that got cut? Team member we worked with for years and great employees and contributors to the overall team? Just shut up, take a deep breath and put your head down and work because you are "safe" for right now? Knowing the people who gave their all, just like you, got cut for no reason? Cry me a river, this guy is such a tool. Worst manager I have ever seen. Oh, wait.... not manager anymore! Now 30 of us report to one new director, a Cloud guy, who magically did not lose anyone from his team. Just cut the other group he suddenly inherited!

@mg my team shrank from 100 to 40. Literally all of us are working from 4 am to 6 pm or more, oy fir the team as a whole to fall farther behind every day. We're ki-ling ourselves because we gave a halfway decent boss that we don't wantvti see replaced.

@m0

As your workload and assumed availability increased, were the increased benefits negotiated to your satisfaction? Or were you in a take-it-or-leave-it position?

I know when I expect more from my vendors, I almost always have to renegotiate terms.

@kv

So we have some work to do, to get the score where it really should be.

@m0

Nope. You may have a pile of emails. It's up to you to decide what's a full day of work.

If you want to work from 4am to 6pm that's up to you but very few of your colleagues are doing this.

@e4 except my workload dictates that I jump into the emails at 4 am and nit atop until 6 or 7 pm, getting uo at 3 to go for a run is just impractical. But you're right that being at dell us a choice. Now if only someone was hiring for similar work with less hours and similar pay..... Maybe I'll just take a massive paycut and become a window washer. Oh wait I have a mortgage and a family to feed. Looks like I am stuck t dell for the foreseeable future.

A zero is actually a neutral result. 50% +, 50% -.

Remember: work-life harmony is a choice, and that choice is yours. When waking up at 5 in the morning, you have the option to go for a run instead of just diving straight into all that email.

As if the executives actually care... They change nothing anyways and then go and randomly do something to pi-s everybody off... AGAIN.

• Promotions have been MIA for YEARS

• WHY tf is travel still witheld? - Conferences specifically

• Training budget is always "limited" - yet they want us to be more knowledgable.

• Raises in general have been pretty pathetic and haven't kept up with inflation at all.

• First it was the "hybrid" policy, which at least gave people the choice; which was basically how Dell has ALWAYS been - 3 days in office/week - but with a negative for remotes. No promotions. WTF lol???

• Now it's RTO 5 days/week and remote has no chance of promotions lol? I mean, i kinda get it. Dell wants everybody to be close enough to go into office but like, help with relocation at least?

• The whole weird af and 10000% unnecessary "reorg" of managers needing xyz number of direct reports. Most Sr. Managers were "demoted" to glorified PM's so their boss/director could have 20 employees. TF is this bs? My new director/manager is so unpersonable and MIA 99.999% of the time.

• No more onsite medical center - honestly, that was very conveinient. Along with no onsite gym anymore.

• Milking booths were taken away

• The cafeteria? LOL.. Pathetic. At least varry the fkn "grill" section up weekly or something but burgers, tenders, bs "quesadillas" are boring at this point. The pizza bar is fine but, bring back the rotating vendors. THAT was awesome back in the day. Oh, lets not forget the overpriced food they charge! All that sushi is quite literally bought from HEB and then marked up. The entire cafe is pathetic.

• CONSTANT layoffs

• Did I mention the total lack of promotions for the last 5 years?

I'm honestly curious why or how any exec at Dell could even wonder why the eNPS score was dog po-p lol. Not that they care because they get paid half a mill anyways and have a solid .01% chance of being laid off. Oh yeah, they also have a nice hefty amount of RSU's that can be cashed in.

The numbers don’t lie, the low eNPS on Tell Dell is bleeding into the business. When you don’t take care of your people, they stop caring about the company. They give just enough to get by, and that’s exactly why Dell is losing market share while Lenovo and HP are gaining. Leadership fails to understand this and they have missed the boat. But let’s go All-In on a company that has shown its cards to the employees.

@an yeah the march layoffs were a bit different than I hve seen on the past. Our teams bottom 3 performers were let go, but our top 3 performers were also let go. One of the top 3 was an expert with our older stuff that is supposed to be well past eol but Dell inexplicably keeps allowing multiple customers to renew their contracts. Too bad for our customers everyone who knows now to support their stuff is now gone.

My group still has not been shown the results of Tell Dell.

I gave my boss okay scores because I was afraid negative comments would lead to retaliation. He was literally never responded to a single email I sent him. I got laid off August 8th.

SO SPEAK UP!

I was at the high end of activity and performance for my team, with other members having lower numbers. I got the ax.

You are 100% op. It’s literally the worst time I’ve ever seen here and if you ask others they’ll say the same thing. We’ve got absolutely horrible leaders at the SVP and president level across the entire company.

The sad part is, the current leadership, like he---s, are here to stay.

Haha.. ask me anything

You know eNPS scores can go into the minus’s, yeah?

A 0 score is one of the better scores I’ve seen. Plenty of -10’s 12’s and 15’s floating around right now.

Due to return to office and layoffs this years scores have all but been written off.