Remember a guy blew his head off at the Round Rock Dell Campus in the parking lot? He was an engineer that got let go.
Swept under the rug.
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Kirk was a good man, with an awesome heart. He devoted a chunk of his life to the company, and when he was let go, gave into despair.
He didn’t feel that he could re-tool and start over again, which he totally was capable of.
This incident more than any other in my professional career left a deep scar.
PLEASE, if you find yourself let go, don’t despair!! There are options, and life does go on. In a lot of cases it is the door opening to a new and exciting set of opportunities.
Kirk is missed, and his departure hurt a lot of people, so please let’s show some respect for his suffering.
To take ones life usually means there was a lot more going on than a job loss. If not it is one of the saddest scenarios to tie ones complete identity to one specific role in one specific company. Get your skill set up.
Couldn't agree more SPVs VPs need to go. Unfortunately, many SVPs and VPs know they are incompetent and see the capable Sr Dir/Dir who are competent and way more skilled to lead as a threat. There is a significant number of top talent that has been pushed out the company as a result. It's a vicious cycle that will not be fixed until they take those who just seat in their role to collect a paycheck or until their boss moves on so they can take their spot (L2s/L3s/L4s).
It’s terrible what happened. My sincere hope is that Dell looks hard at its management and let’s go at least if not more than half its VP and SVP staff. The majority of them can’t create a single unique thought, have zero ability to execute and wouldn’t dare to get dirty. Even the newest SVPs and VPs have no idea what they’re doing because they all C or D level leaders. They think they’re awesome and I have zero respect for them.
The majority of your directors and senior directors know what’s what. Bring them up and take out the trash.
Externally, it's not as much that Dell swept it under the rug so much as benefited on the fact that media doesn't like to report heavily on those types of incidents. Obviously internally, all types of damage control. But media wasn't going to focus on that regardless.