I work in sales. The place has slowly morphed into a glorified sweatshop, never ending check the box activities, and endless team meetings of the next su---r (manager who are in and out every quarter), and we get to hear very long winded lectures of our to do’s every week, …or else. Rinse and repeat, 4 times per week. And then a rah rah go team go get ‘em . The place is such a dumpster fire. Awaiting the next ridiculous quota and the next go to market directive. Looks like I’ll have no choice but to throw in the towel as I can’t seem to get let go although I’ve quietly quit a long time ago.
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OP - I hear ya loud and clear. Get out before it effects your pay and mental health. I worked for Dell for 20+ years. The last 7 years were horrendous. I left 2 years ago on my own to work for a large national Systems Integrator. I just couldn't take the constant re-orgs every 6 months as Execs shuffled people around like pawns which effected my takehome pay which they always had a difficult time calculating. I feel like a new man with a single purpose, and that is to embrace every OEM except Dell. I've been absolutely shocked at customers and other systems integrators views of Dell...below whale sh-t. I don't have to deal with Dell because my field account teams despise them. HPE, Pure, NetApp, Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, Goggle and many others are far easier to do business with, and they are trustworthy. You can throw that Dell Code of Conduct right into the trash bin.... Good luck and get out!
@4hwo+1o2lVRrk I couldnt agree more.
If you get cut your the lucky one.
Do more with less but talk about how we can drive you online for Dells benefit so they can eventually cut more sales staff and hand everything else over to partners.
Dell has become a boiler room of tension and stress which is ever increasing but management have no clue.
I hope we have a second round in September because I for one am done with.
Dude the OP on this is LITERALLY what it is. I realized there’s something worse than getting laid off and that’s surviving to pick up the slack. Every team is scrambling. Handoffs of accounts are more or less “Hey this is so and so, they have a problem. It’s YOUR problem now” and morale is at an all time low. And the only word from leadership in todays meeting was “hey REALLY push your clients to go through partners for storage and the website. Because storage is all we have left that’s profitable and we need them on the website for when we get rid of ISRs… I mean… for their connivence!” It was laughable. They literally ended it with “don’t be afraid of AI!” Like come on. It’s so blatant it’s painful.
Please don't be racist and call me a troll. I am a highly trained Social Media influencer that only seeks to make the workplace a better place by sharing my vast wisdom with people less intelligent than me who have drunk the "Corporate Kool-Aid" and become corporate drones incapable of independent thought. Please do yourself a favor and listen to me.
@1jrk+1o2lVRrk Not the first time I have heard this.
You must be senior management.
This is the issue with Dell.
Remember a happy sales person sells and nothing is selling.
If you don’t like it then leave.
I know others that didn’t want to lose their job last week and you complain that you are still here.
Stfu
Its good to have historical perspective, and know that Dell was a big sweatshop in 1998 just like it is now in 2023 and people were calling it H E L L and Smell Computers back then.
Bro in the comments worked here in 1998 and is still trolling Dell Layoff message boards?! Lmao that’s it for me, I’ll show myself out. This is the most pathetic echo chamber of woe is me I ever saw.
You are in sales. I shouldnt have to tell you ths
2nd place prize is a set of steak knives.
Long-term strategy is the challenge for Dell : cloud or not cloud, limited R&D investments block innovation, up and down with partners, complex org easily simplified but protected by well-paid Execs, heavy process not automated, storage servers or client, what to do with AI... Making more with less is not a strategy
Is Dell hiring?
I also work in sales and can totally agree.Pointless meetings and constant re orgs with never ending targets quarter on quarter that make absolutley no sense in a market that is declining while ticking the most bizarre boxes.
Dell seems to be pushing towards and online first ,partner led strategy and looks to be pushing staff out through attrition instead of layoffs.
While some people are in a very unlucky position and would love to stay but have been forced out into the cold,some feel like they are the unlucky ones by staying put.
It is like a sweatshop at the moment and morale is very low but management will speak about mental health to tick the box.
Whilst other competitors may be the similar the difference is at least the compensation and benefits are better.
Hopefully we have another round of cuts in the next few weeks.
I definitely won't miss the next round of team calls and town halls. There's never any relevant information. Just 45 minutes of how we did last quarter, and "Now go get 'em!!" Have to listen to that from everyone with a manager title. So repetitive.
Dell was always a sweatshop, I went there in 1998 and left in 1999, actually the whole team left within 4 months because as we said way back then “ He-l Computers is a turn of the Century sweatshop “