EMC just "borrowed" 15 Compellent front-line engineers in Minnesota to help with their burden, so maybe that will help EMC....
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3 years 2 months and counting, free paycheck with out any work. Seen some layoffs but they are just cost cut downs to meet numbers.
There is huge discrepancy among work distributions, too many redundant teams and very few teams work very hard and most teams got nothing for years. Some say they are swamped with work and many say they collect free paycheck, both are correct.
Same here. Swamped. Outnumbered. Have 3-5 Dell counterparts for each of my three different initiatives to match up with everything I'm doing in my role at the employer formerly known as EMC. 15x volume of emails and IMs. But hey, it's a paycheck, right?
Everybody commenting on not having any work needs to stop advertising it. I only wish I had that luxury... you deffo don't want to lose it.
I'm just sitting around collecting a pay check.
I wish I could do the same but post-EMC I am being swamped with work and being pestered from left and right for advice..
ZZZ email list still has the same 9 names on it from weeks ago. That can't be right. There must be a new system - or they cycle through much faster. Or they just don't list them anymore.
I know there is around 115,000 employees. I kept track using the ZZZ email list, but I don't know how many jobs were filled. Most of this year you could not keep track using the ZZZ email list as they seemed to delete the ZZZ names very quickly or not show them at all. What do you think I was doing each day everyday when I'm just sitting around collecting a pay check. Wake up people!!!!
if you are really good you can come back as contract worker. Dell keeps their own cronies but still need someone to work the engine. That's where contract comes in.
Cuts at MDC last Friday.
Layoffs last Friday for the former Compellent team. Some long time employees let go.
Cuts coming this month.
In Vmax we are slammed working on total junk like Metadata Paging that will never page.
which storage group? there are multiple. I know in the Vmax area were are slammed with work and
people working time over base for extra hours/money is wide open. Dont even have to ask permission just let the manager on duty know you will be working and thats it.....Remote or just come in.....
"140k employees is way to many"
Agree on this. 30-40% of them needs to be cut.
Where did you see there is still 140,000 employees?
In Wikipedia it says that as of 2016 dell had 138,000 employees. Are you telling me that for less than one year dell laid off 22,000 employees unnoticed ?
Where did you see there is still 140,000 employees?
It's more like 115,000 employees currently left, maybe even less by now.
Dell launches $20 billion high-grade bond
The newly merged entity is expected to have more than US$50bn of debt, and amid worries about both the storage and personal computer sectors, some investors were cautious.
"We are concerned about the long-term decline of the storage and server business in particular," said Bill Zox, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-emc-us-dell-bonds-idUSKCN0Y82BT
Don't worry you will get cake just like Quest Software when they went private.
To many people trying to justify their positions and their value. Cuts are inevitable . Keep the faith and hope and give each other high fives int he hall way. O by the way don't forget to say how great things are
There is lot of useless political junk even in places like VMAX especially in an upper ranks. Case in point DE Alesia :)
Don't understand how is this going to help the company. So they are cutting OPEX or project team of failed products? Last thing you want is to remove talents.
well this all can be avoided had the storage sales meet their numbers - ”some Dell exec”
Capitalism - Few Winners and Many Losers . Many people are getting desperate and did not see what will happen. Call it ignorance , call it denial , the Earnings Report has been screaming as Law of Diminishing Returns has been staring in their face.
Many have homes, family, children in college and many will lose all of it. No way out of this mess for while till debt is cleared up.