Week 1 of badging and People are already leaving, really good team members. Just the beginning of chaos…
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More this week…ISG…
I learned this week that 5 top performers are leaving at will, all in ISG.
The whole of Dell midmarket in Belgium has almost as good as seized to exist due to people leaving. Current sales director has 0 clue to run the business.
Good people are leaving Dell because their management su-ks. The upper management in ISG is absolutely horrible.
Just clueless. Can’t execute but plans incredibly well.
@1jqh+1srctcQW cheap is nothing new, it's in the DNA from our earliest days when the company was located at the Arboretum and Braker Lane buildings
Dell is the most low-rent company I have ever experienced. They literally will leave no penny unturned when it comes to saving money. Actually go out of their way to skim from employees
I agree that the brick and mortar mentality is legacy EMC. I turned down a job there many years ago because they wanted me to report to the office before my first sales call and after my last one at the end of the day. The position was in a big city and it didn’t make sense to me to trek back to the office just to wave hello if my last customer meeting ended at 4pm.
However, at least the offices were a decent environment and EMC weren’t penny pinchers like Dell. I think what we have now is the worst of both cultures blended together.
Lawyer up
This company and their greedy CEO is horrible. I was targeted for ageism and high salary(top of pay grade). They don't like to pay severance so they make life miserable for the employee to force them out. They put me on PIP for no reason. First time I've ever been to HR after working 30+ years and for 7! computer corporations. Was not my performance. They are just so very greedy. Look somewhere else for work and stay away from Dell.
EMC was a technology company run by software engineers. They kept people in the building by giving them services. Plenty of people worked remote. Dell is a half-assed company that is cheap, penny pincher that could care less about its employees and only cares about the “story”. Glad I left.
Just understand one thing. This brick and mortar mentality is pure EMC. Dell has always been on site for HQ and remote for field based people. EMC was never that way. They didn't trust their people to be 100% remote. It's just the mentality they have so not that it wasn't clear years ago who won the culture war when Dell purchased EMC?
Now you know....and another thing that comes from EMC? You want people out without paying a severance? Make life he-l for them.
This cr-ppy ride isn't over by a long shot.
There aren't "good people" at Dell - I don't say that to be disparaging, its just management's perspective. We're all just farm animals on an Excel spreadsheet to them. Any professional is same as any other professional on Bain's cookie cutter; the cuts and intentional misery will continue until the stock is $200 and our employee count is roughly equal to 1k per $1b in revenue. Of course what they don't see is how behind our tech will be, the cost of brain drain and loss of quality talent, low quality metrics, and a cutthroat culture and they'll have to spend 5-10 years rebuilding that once JC is done gutting the company.
@kiy+1srctcQW Telco and APEX is so 2 years ago for Bright Shiny Object. All about AI now. Just Dell being Dell, we chase the "cool thing" haphazardly and then move on when it doesn't really sell more pizza boxes and there's a new "cool thing."
I was just notified two key players in our EMEA Telco strategy have been let go. Is this the start of the end of Telco for Dell?
Then it’s working. That’s what they wanted.