If you were recently hired and laid off, no need to be confused as to why. Chances are you are in your 20s, maybe early 30s. You were laid off because they needed sacrificial lambs to ensure nobody can sue them for age discrimination. Layoffs are always about getting rid of people with the highest pay. Since those people are also among the oldest here, they need to even things out. As simple as that.
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I'm 57 nit 20 or 30 and been at dell 23 years. Your wrong. I was let go Tuesday.
Age discrimination? Dell HIRED me for a software development position at age 60 about 4 years ago. When I hit 65, I chose to retire.
As if senior technologists want to waste their time interviewing Low-t, simp millennials that think a Twitter feed is engineering. Cry snd cope.
I wonder if the spineless manager who sacked me, will appreciate his free subscription to Scientology?
@ppj+1l4vxkUy I’m multi million curious of EMC. How bout you?
I will answer that. I was at my first six-figure salary at the age of 24. That was in 1989. Of course a six figure income or even $90,000, was worth about four times what it is today. So your analogy and comparison is just false from the start.
I noticed also ex-emc were more impacted than ex-dell , i guess due to double the salary they came with when merge was done.
You are spot on! I know as I was canned last year. What’s ironic is they actually provided data to proof it in the sev package. The data is ppl who were laid off and ppl in group remaining by job title and age. They use young g-ns to justify canning the aged was so obvious in data.
You don't attract new talent being interviewed by grandparents.
Old people who think they are think they are making more than the younger generation are in denial.
People in Inside sales are making 90K how long did it take you to get above that starting in your 20's? Back in the day.....
I left Dell almost a year ago. Retired a year early as I had enough of it. Joined VCE, swallowed up by EMC and then Dell. Took my IBP AND LTI last March during my review and gave 2 weeks notice. My mgr and a peer I left behind were let go today. Both old expensive white guys but performers. Talked to a buddy (mid40’s) in ISG pre-sales and he told me another peer late 50’s and top knowledge resource was let go today.
This WFR was all about cutting overhead and older staff make the money. We were hired during better times when compensation was far better.
This isn’t about old vs young. It ain’t personal, just business… I’m glad and fortunate to have survived numerous purges over 38 years.
BTW, retirement is wonderful! Good luck to you all on your journeys.
Not true they cut top performers also. Your so wrong
Age discrimination is no different than any other form of bias. Older employees were once young and young employees will get old. Getting laid off is ugly. What a divisive post to pit young verses old? The decay of civil society is what I read into that statement. Grow up - fast.
that's cruel, but sorta makes sense
Dell is Spreadsheet Management.
Plenty of id--tic MBA's in the Plantation walking around knowing nothing.
u lie
Managers don't lay off based on age, or race. dell cut anyone and everyone if they are low performer, pip, coach plan, or can be obsoleted by cheaper resource, Unisys and Wipro in most cases