Any risk of senior technical staff in low cost country to be laid off?
12 replies (most recent on top)
"several offshore managers have exhibited the most incompetent behaviours and knowledge as much as possible"
and he/she is promoted again
If you are working for DELL / EMC you should be affraid because the ship is sinking quickly.
yeah... you should worry. several offshore managers have exhibited the most incompetent behaviours and knowledge as much as possible, making the lay off a need to cut such incompetent people. lack of intelligence costs a money to the company. D.J.
Should be fine. Dell is an offshoring company. The cut will come from north America first which make a lot of sense. Dell is running low on cash and revenue, how do maintain the business yet trying to lower the overhead ? It is doable, only quality will be impacted but it always a price to pay.
Buyout is the only way Dell can survive. The whiners about jobs etc meh just a show . Dell will layoff many folks and offshore jobs fast
Not looking good
DELL 5.875% 15Jun2019 Corp (USD)
That is terrible news. So DELL will be paying close to 3 bils in interest every year rather than 2 bils. No wonder DELL is looking for buy out by VMW.
"Senior technical staff in low cost countries are expendable"
No they are not. Having been with Dell for awhile, you have to agree with me that senior techs are being laid off from rest cost locations and suddenly the role reappears in India especially and some other best cost location. Cheap labours will not be replaced. Depending on how senior are you. Of course those that are mega senior can soon apply for green card into US and still paid lower.
Plus it is not hard to please the senior management, you just need a perfect British or American accent and can talk about anything random for hours, add in some jargons and a good powerpoint slide. Done.
Senior technical staff in low cost countries are expendable. As there is no innovation in low cost countries senior technical staff are usually log keepers and follow directives from Hopkinton. They can be easily laid off. It is their political connections in Hopkinton which is crucial for their survival.
The CEO and Board of Directors impose on society their method and at the heart of that system of production is an internal conflict between wages and profits that if not for Marx, productivity operating behind that conflict would never have been exposed as the double helix of the entire social order.
Double the productivity you double the profit and you reduce payroll by half. You've cut the comapny some slack and can now rehire to past levels and raise productivity higher. Follow this logic and you will become a CEO.
You will have positioned the company to higher outputs by implementation of the innovation and now as CEO you can begin refining the actual production process and fine tune the workers activities to three combinations of management techniques on top of the doubled productivity to raise company earnings even higher, making you Forbes cover Man of the Year. Every second counts. Time is money under capitalism.
On the flip side of the above method and scenario is --- what happens socially to working class individuals by the injection of new technologies to productivity already conditioned by the replaced technology. The social consequences of low wages, longer working hours, working harder, longer, living according to the needs of the company not the family and getting less pay while others award themselves large bonuses owning larger homes not foreclosures, worker dissatisfaction by way social alienation when people do not relate to each other but only work together, worker sabotage on the production line, product tampering, workplace hazards, accelerated production schedules and environmental destruction, long stretches of no work, union busting and employee No Compete Contracts, all the social effects are at the same time consequences and serve to preserve the domination of the economic surplus by corporate CEOs and Boards of Directors.
In effect the economic surplus is turned against labor in the capital-labor relationship.
Quit your whining. Like Dell really cares after the rah rah speeches and everyone giving each other high fives in Round Rock
Not looking good
DELL 5.875% 15Jun2019 Corp (USD)
https://www.bondsupermart.com/main/bond-info/bond-factsheet/US24702RAJ05
Treasury Announces Marketable Borrowing Estimates
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0268
US junk bond market drought breaks
https://www.ft.com/content/0973d4bc-b4ce-11e5-b147-e5e5bba42e5
Most of the Senior technical staff in low cost Bangalore are incompetent. In Dell BDC storage it is worst and has hit abysmal depths. The two senior super techies haven't written code for ages. They make up for their technical incompetence through politicking and producing presentations at 6000 ft level. One senior techie was a resource manager in service company and only skill is requesting headcount. They give proposals by putting headcount on architectural diagrams without an iota of understanding. The two super techies have no competence even in college level technical problem solving. Their only saving grace is that they are in low cost countries. The directors who they work for are also highly technically incompetent and they form a cabal attacking engineers and create a mafia kind of atmosphere.
No