I currently work in sales and can honestly say that I have never seen things as bad and as negative as they are currently in any time during my career.
Targets are so over inflated even consistently high sellers are struggling to hit 40 to 50 % at a push.
Nobody I speak with has anything positive to say about the business and some people are actively seeking a voluntary severance package only to be told no.
Leaders really have no idea of the state of play at the moment and every day we are asked to do just a little more.
Can anyone give some positive details on the future of Dell? Or as sales people are we destined for the scrapheap in the coming months?
UK market based and losing my mind slowly.
I would love to hear peoples feedback.
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Business has really dropped in the West, mainly because we have lost so many good people. Morale is awful, I keep seeing college kids taking on serious enterprise jobs with no experience. I'm looking hard for another job, I won't make my number this half - my hope is to get something after xmas. A few times when I blew my number out, I got capped. I asked about being capped in an interview and the lady said "why would we do that?"
@2nwa+1pPi8EtF We are the same in Cherrywood.Every day is more painful.
Steve Young was in Dublin yesterday telling us all was fine and the yes men lapped it up.
US sales here. We feel your pain with targets, asked to do more with less and leadership (ISG/Medium Bus) is poor. Our previous director left and we have an egotistical guy out of Nashville who only thinks of himself.
Good luck!
Keep grinding boys..your "Dell family" will depend on you.. you will be rewarded (wink)
Place is rotten. Top leaders at face value are great. Middle management blow camels. People at the bottom checked out. So I left, never looked back. Other to come on here for bants
Sorry to hear it's just as bad across the pond. What a brutal environment. Terribly unethical company.
middle management drives the innovation for Dell
underlings get to work.
Yes agree. We have way too much middle management. Way too many Sr Directors, VPs and SVPs. I’m sure that is where the WFRs will be over the upcoming year. Cut that out and you’ve cut out most of the dead weight.
@1toy+1pPi8EtF The same in Dublin.Every day it gets harder.
Not interested in hyperbole....my point was that consumer business is still low and hasnt rebounded quite yet and for the 2nd year in a row Federal ki-led it in Sales and will likely again be the saving grace of the year's earnings. Maybe someday federal will get the respect it deserves from the Execs.
@1jwi+1pPi8EtF Dell would be out of business if not for the federal government
I’m in Texas and it su-ks here too. Impossible quotas and then a “coaching plan” if/when you don’t hit.
All i know is that it looks like for the second year in a row, Federal is carrying the company
Can anyone give some positive details on the future of Dell?
I will not be surprised if Dell Tech is sold to either to IBM or NetApp dirt cheap, after which there will be mass layoffs and serious corporate cleanup.