Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

This is what Dell has resorted to

Laid off a year ago after being there 15 years (EMC brought into Dell). I had a larger quota (20-30 million a half but I will admit I was semi over paid compared to market averages)...but I was lucky and was immediately employed by a competitor a week after posting up my looking for work banner on LinkedIN.

I wasn't replaced by Dell for a while and they finally got headcount or whatever to replace me and they did it with a guy fresh out of college. Turns out they couldn't get meetings or sell anything.

Now here is where it gets funny. Encouraged by his lesdership, the new kid has the nerve to reach out to me and ask me if I can introduce him to my old customers (bear in mind i'm his direct competitor now and he knows this). Absolutely laughable.

That is how they are running things now, I suppose.


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How many laid off people from sales are now working for competitors? 25k- 30k?

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Post ID: @wk+1kcq9nnw4

I wish you luck OP. I am hearing very similar stories.

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Post ID: @d4+1kcq9nnw4

There is a reason why you have more tenured sales people. If you don't want to use them anymore, go ahead and use someone out of school and see how far it gets you.

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Post ID: @d3+1kcq9nnw4

That doesn’t surprise me at all. No one is thinking about the aftermath of their decision making. Just what benefits us now. This will be what happens when they think AI can take over.

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Post ID: @a8+1kcq9nnw4

I understand that being laid off SU-KS and puts you in a bad position and yeah, I can't imagine being loyal to a company for 15 years but like dude... it's been a year now. I think you need to move on and quit coming to this forum.

Assuming you came back and posted this simply because of your replacement asking you for "old customers" then that's fine and makes sense lol.

As for that though? FcQ him. You owe him or Dell nothing at all. Just like you built up your own customer base, he needs to do the same and not be spoon fed everything YOU worked your butt off to obtain. Tell him to tell his "leadership" to F right on off and to never contact you again.

OR tell him that you'd be happy to for a very hefty fee of $1000/hour lol

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Post ID: @a7+1kcq9nnw4

This is a great story. And it seems now par for the course.

Hopefully you’re happy and doing well wherever you are, now. Most of the time people buy from the people they like not because they love a product. I didn’t realize how much people hated buying Dell or using Dell products until I left Dell. Only Dell employees that are brainwashed with the Kool-Aid think that Dell is actually a good product to buy. They are literally a joke to everyone outside looking in and you don’t see that until you are gone.

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