If an employee who's dedicated almost two decades to the company is actually hoping to be laid off, what does that say about the environment and management at Dell? What does it say about the company's culture, morale, and how it treats its long-term staff?
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This is Dell functioning as intended. You’re worked til you burn out and get swapped like a bad drive when you’re used up around cycle count
What's troubling is the amount of long term employees without any experience outside of Dell
We are all employees at will. Dell reserves the right to clip you at anytime if they feel they can save a dime by getting you off the payroll, but it works both ways. If you are no longer satisfied with Dell, have some courage, gather you resume together and go look. There are good paying gigs out there. Life is too short to wallow in a gig you no longer enjoy and get satisfaction from.
It’s troubling when a long-term employee, who has dedicated nearly 20 years to the company, would rather be laid off. This situation raises serious questions about the environment and management at Dell. It suggests potential issues with the company’s culture, morale, and treatment of its long-term staff. If experienced employees are hoping for a layoff, it might indicate a significant problem that needs to be addressed within the organization.
My father used to say the decline of the American corporation was when the Personnel department became HR. The employees became resources.
A decade ago sales at Dell required skill. Now it is a grift. Such a shame.
I'm in that boat. I used to think I'd happily stay here for life. 12 months of this and I'm begging to be paid off.
Sometimes people have had a long career and are looking to retire. Getting severance from being laid off will allow them to depart with a smile. Not every WFR departure is unexpected.
its very unfortunate but if you have given two plus decades to Dell, you are most likely on a WFR list. No thank you for your time, no goodbye, just here is what you must sign and hand over your badge and PC
" They actively disdain us all as costs."
Correct. Employees to them are no different than the components in their cheap product offerings.
It's not like they are generating any worthwhile intellectual IP. It's a assembly plant mentality.
Their exec class are not comprised of industry leaders in anything. How they missed out on being a cloud provider is utterly shameful.
Dell is a low budget operation. They treat their people like low grade components as well. Their demise is self-doing.
Those of us that started in the early days figured this out in 2001 when the WFRs started and never stopped
You're a number at Dell. That's all you are, and that's all you'll ever be. The corporate "culture" has always been poor.
it says you should have quit a long time ago.
The flaw in your logic is assuming they care, at all. What you think, their impact on you, whether your experience is valuable - totally irrelevant to them. They actively disdain us all as costs.