Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Dell EMC merger is a disaster in the making. The tell tale signs are already showing with plummeting storage revenues and a bleak product roadmap. The disruption from cloud and smaller innovators will destroy this merger which many analysts have termed aptly as the mating of two dinosaurs. This will go down as bad if not worse than the AOL Time Warner merger. Will be a topic and case study for failed MnA for years to come. I am pretty sure quickstart researchers are already working on the thesis.

EMC execs who truly would have mattered have already left Dell. Rather sky dived with their golden parachute. The people who are left behind are the parasites and free loaders.

Lose Lose situation no matter what happens - wake up people and move on - there is life outside Dell EMC

"Who's going to win the battle of management style EMC or Dell? Lifers on both sides of the house."

Ultimately Dell will 'win' the management battle if for no other reason than as soon as the higher up EMC execs can exercise their golden parachute package they will be running for the exits in droves. Seen it happen many times where the execs from the acquired company were required to stay on for anywhere from 12 to 24 months before they could exercise options or claim their "reward" package but as soon as they could they hit the ground running and didn't look back. You can bet many of the EMC so called lifers will be enjoying the retirement life as soon as the cash is in their hand and they can exit stage left. Until then it's a battle of the titans while each side tries to maintain status quo!

Who's going to win the battle of management style EMC or Dell? Lifers on both sides of the house.

Hilarious to see the battle taking place. maybe most of you sleep with one eye open not knowing what awaits you all. Dell will do what they always did and will do, Spread Sheet Management, PIPS, No need for coverage etc. Keep the chant going and pep rallies to live in the past . You know the job market is collapsing and you are afraid to step out,

NOBAlT7-3nxt: I second that - neither of the two companies has anything to brag about . I have worked for almost15 years at EMC and now working for another much smaller non-US company I regret for staying for so long with EMC for so long. I should have left 9 years ago as soon as I got my green card..

Having worked for many years at both EMC and Dell I will say this neither company is anything to brag about as far as ethics or the way they treat employees. EMC is the cult of the Southies.. your not from Boston or at least the east coast you don't matter. Mean spirited management that only cares about the bottom line like all high tech today. Dell... what can I say never have worked with so many mediocre sales teams anywhere in my 25 years of sales. Second time around and its worse than the first time. There are some great folks but on average the Dell AE couldn't sell his or her way out of a paper bag just commodity pushers like their overhyped management, there are few to no leaders at Dell just syncopates and sales management full of SE's who become managers and think they know ti all. I am checking out first chance I get and finding a solid team of A players first i ll work in a brothel to get my self respect back though.

Thank you for the posts from folks who are taking time to post thoughtful and insightful comments. The DELL EMC merger does bring the best and the best together in many ways. Technology and people too.

Change is needed but not easy. It's just so hard to watch the clash of cultures when things could go so much more smoothly.

I'm a partner/ outsider and I'm amazed at how badly the Dell teams speak of and to EMC'ers and EMC leadership. I've always admired the strength of the EMC team. Why on earth would DELL want to allow these folks to be pushed out? It seems to me that DELL would do well to stop the bleed of losing EMC talent and move more towards the EMC culture. Since when is all of this talk about AGE tolerated? The jokes at DELL always center around the OLD EMCers.

Doesn't anyone know these folks are the ones who can drive business like no other machine in the world?

Yes. The change in tech. makes sense and had to happen. But the character and ethics are the worst I've ever witnessed.

If I were a customer- I'd look at other options. Relationships and trust matter.

Careful Dell. It's not the big that eat the little. It's the fast that eat the slow.

Those EMCers aren't ready to retire yet.

They'll land somewhere - a fast moving startup perhaps, and I'm ready to partner with any of them!

EMC did have a culture all to itself. We took serving customers seriously. And I have no doubt that the Dell culture wants to serve its customers well too. There is only one problem: The Dell culture and the EMC culture have two different and incompatible anchoring points. The Dell culture is focused on PCs and low cost. The EMC culture was focused on managing and protecting customers data. Then Dell bought EMC. The two cultures collided. But it was Dell that bought EMC - not the other way around. Dell is the victor. Add to this the shift away from large networked - and expensive - storage systems towards low-cost servers with HCI software and you have a recipe for the old EMC thinking fading away. There will always be a them and us thinking until ex EMC'ers sublimate and become Dell thinkers - or old EMC'ers get forced out - or leave. Was the old EMC culture great? Yes! But EMC is no more. Its former systems value is being replaced by low cost servers. Using scale-out and low cost HW to protect data is now the cloud order of the day.

Cloud paradigms killed the monolithic storage array. As the market shifted, EMC needed a server partner. First HP was approached. That did not move fwd. Then the other choice was Dell. So now we have Dell EMC. Dell has a) a large debt to serve (as in pay off), and b) too many employees. As investments are contracted and consolidated across the EMC product lines (spilling over to Dell storage), rolling layoffs, early retirement etc. is to be expected. It s---s for the folks being laid off - but this is business. Wake up EMC'ers. Do some strategic thinking and make your next move - before your pink slip arrives. 40% layoffs affects everyone - even when it is achieved over several years.

All. Dellions will learn the new way of doing business

Post ID: @NOBAlT7-1xmt

customer satisfaction without thought of rewards.

Don't worry Dell will change that. Meh who cares about people. It's the Spreadsheet Management. You are worshiping the so called leaders who may put you down and betray you. Hard to see past the fog and all the rah rah

The worst post I ever read, must be Dell EMC internal.

Wait for all those HR complains to get exposed, all fake resumes, references and skill sets and how they are masked. Then talk what EMC'ers are.

Ahhhhhhh- more sarcasm from someone who doesn't understand.

EMCers don't look for pots of gold or rainbows and they work for customer satisfaction without thought of rewards.

Get to know your peers before you throw rocks. You'll be happy there's a multitude of strong EMC folks who are ready, willing, and extremely competent at the new DellEMC. Give teamwork a chance. You'll be wildly successful together.

There is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Just hang on EMC folks Michael will acknowledge your past greatness with unbelievable rewards.

#no bait. I think you missed the point of the other poster.

Unfortunately that type of sarcasm is exactly what we EMCers get when we try to work alongside our new peers. I'm betting you never worked for Mr. Egan

Stop the insults. Share the passion.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Ok, sounds like a college frat house talk

Pure MBA speak. Complete drivel in other words.