you will be okay if you dont get hit by a bus,but no doubt your getting layed off!
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as long as you give each other high fives and post on Linkdin and praise Dell management you will be fine.
yes, we are hiring developers right now. It's moving.
Of course.
Is Dell cooking books?
@1ijy+1h8cGPGK you can tell you work in Sales
APEX is crushing and needs staffing.
Dell is "overstaffed in some areas" especially office staff.
Is Dell cooking books? 3 billion in unusual gains hmmmm…….
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@1qsd+1h8cGPGK I genuinely am interested in the layoffs across VMware and Dell and the competition, but be realistic. Yes there will be layoffs but not wholesale.
@1ijy+1h8cGPGK Michael Dell actually said yesterday that cost cuts will have to be made just after he announced how well we had done last quarter.
Also sales targets have actually doubled and then some from the last quarter which means you will sell more and probably earn less all the while doing more work while gas and groceries are increasing through the roof.
If they wanted us to stick around then premier portals would not have been made.
If you like your job and are happy to take a pay cut well good for you but if like me and I'm pretty sure lot of others I don't want to take a pay cut especially when shareholders and top brass are getting big payouts.
Seems like a kick in the teeth to me and a lot of others in Dell.
But look the shareholders are happy so thats the most important thing right?
Also why look at a layoff forum if your so happy?
You are safe for the rest of the year. When you look at where Dell is in the market now, it's taken out the essential infrastructure space as it set out to do and is also smashing client systems.
More importantly . . as much as we all like to fantasise that robots and people in india will take our jobs . . they wont. People like dealing with people and it has been proven time and time again that if you remove people from the equation, the customers go elsewhere.
Also, our systems are far from perfect and dont really allow the automation needed to not make mistakes. Example, if you make a mistake on one device for a customer that buys thousands . . thats millions in returns. This is what happens. If you take people, legal and architects out of that loop, there is a far higher cost of error than the cost saved by offshoring or overloading
You simply cannot deal with customers "at scale" and maintain loyalty across this many LOB's without people. The competitors split their orgs to cope and they have failed, Dell just has more to sell and its working. Im saying this as an employee who was here before EMC and saw how transactional overload failed, and how the business pivoted to delivering across all these stacks.
Be happy, there are far worse and completely bonkers places to work and if they pay more they will also want more from you.
Office staff are being let go across dell.
Think you could be right @vyz+1h8cGPGK.
Any major home renovations or vacations may want to be reconsidered.
Waiting for the HR call.
are we even safe the remainder of this month?
What at the chances that MD turns into a philanthropist?
Or am I being too optimistic?