Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

I take it OP isn't in sales and has never heard of margin stacking.

It su-ks for sellers and it su-ks for consumers. You're paying for convenience. If you want HEB sushi without the added margin, take 15 minutes to walk across the highway and buy it. Have it doordashed. Or just don't eat in the nasty cafeteria and bring your own lunch.

The RR cafes have been bad for 20+ years

People at sites where services are still being offered are complaining. While during Covid they completely ripped out the cafe and other services at some sites and repeatedly say they don’t intend to bring them back. I see people talk about their free coffee, their over priced food options, the pool not reopening. Some of these things some site never had at all, and with the current do more with less, sites aren’t getting back what they had before. Things that won’t be returning for many: food services (other than a coffee counter and food trucks they have come park outside) , tiny gyms, security presence, walls that are finished as opposed to ones where the metal studs are visible.

Outsourced labor to American employees is expensive.

I stopped eating at cafeteria after having a lunch and then peeing with my butt for 3 days.

@ed The only problem with your statement is that our laptops automatically connect to the vpn even when using hardwired connections in the office.

We ALWAYS joked that the cafeterias were just cost centers to make money.

I would never eat at the cafebacteria!

Double the price, double the sickness. Partake at your own risk.

@ed if they are actually tracking, it isn't being used at all. I havent brought my laptop in for over a year, and on the 2-3 times I did I immediately jump on hotspot so I can use chatgpt/claude/actually read resources externally. They only care about badge ins

I’d be happy with hand soap in the bathrooms and two ply TP.

@ed they don’t know how long you’ve been at the office and nobody is tracking that. Eating at the cafe is gross. It’s not good food at an incredibly high price at this point. Until Dell took over the food was way affordable and pretty good. But Mikey would lose a buck so they don’t subsidize anymore.

@ad I normally would but I do have one person (ONE) on my team whom I enjoy working with in person. I also live 55 mins away so might as well stay for a short time...

They can also 100% tell who coffee badges, along seeing how long you've been at the office, btw..

When you aren't in the office and are WFH, you are using your own internet provider - Spectrum, ATT, etc... for internet access. Then when you connect to the VPN, instead of having an internal IP address, you will have an external/public IP address as the "source."

When IN office, you connect to the Dell WiFi which gives you an internal IP, then you connect to VPN and get another IP. Your "source" IP will prove you are connected to Dell WiFi, though - meaning, you ARE IN the office.

Those who coffee badge likely just walk up to a door, swipe and go back home. Your computer never connects to the WiFi so, it's obvious who is coffee badging is my point.

A simple Splunk querey can show all of this - I've pulled them myself.

@cw They subsidized the vending machine prices too.

There is hardly ever cheese in the so-called potato egg and cheese taco! I think there was cheese the first time I got them after starting to work in the office again. So annoying, because I was trying to make coming in less su-ky in the mornings by treating myself. And now that I’m plant-based, the only option is tater tots. They are delicious but still. Not a great thing to have every day. So it’s bringing food from home for me!

EMC used to have discounted food in the cafeteria. The place was just better all around

@cq

Yes. And in dells' infinite wisdom, how do we modify this employee perk to our advantage?

The cafes used to be great in years past. It's another thing that has been pared down and "ensh**tified" over time. The pandemic and WFH was the excuse to gut the cafeterias, and it has never made it back.

It's annoying, inconvenient, and expensive to leave campus every day for lunch. Better companies recognize that a good cafeteria with affordable (subsidized?) offerings is a win-win. Employees stay on campus, take a shorter lunch break, network and collaborate in the cafe.

Why would you eat/drink at the Dell cafe? This company is very low-budget. Think of all the cost cutting we don't see.

And, yes, I think the food is marked-up not subsidized. MD gotta skim off the vendor as well.

Thanks for the layoff update

Sushi? Given the complaints I hear about the cafeterias, uncooked fish is the last thing I would buy for lunch.

Why on earth is anyone buying food at the for-profit cafeteria. I recommend not spending a dime at or nearby your workplace.

Bring stuff in with you or do without.

Bring your lunch?

At least you have a cafeteria. Our only options are, bring your own food on a cooler (fridge in thr break room hasnt worked for months), expired snacks in the vending machine, or driving 15 minutes to the nearest restaurant.

you have sushi???

Pack a lunch fewl. Or bring a can of tuna and microwave it for 5 minutes.

Sounds like cafe brooches dreams with a sprinkle of buyer’s remorse.

@a8 dude just coffee badge like a real chad. I scan in at 8 and I'm gone by 8:01

@a5 lol F that bro. I eat lunch at home lol. I am in office from 10am-12pm. At most I grab a breakfast taco and that's it

It's called convenience. Food su-ks, pack a lunch.