I was just laid off in Hopkinton after nearly 25 years at EMC. Severance package is good: 1 year pay, 2 years health insurance (given my age and length of service.) Kinda glad I was laid off since I then found out the 2016 retirement package providing a similar severance package has been eliminated. Since I had been planning on retiring soon... Very glad I was also given a 2 week notice instead of being ushered to the door. Being able to wrap up and say goodbye has been and will be very helpful. As a friend said, "On to Life 2.0!"
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Do you know of anyone who had been with EMC, now Dell EMC for more than 20 years, who successfully negotiated the terms of his or her severance package since it was changed?
If so,
~What were the reasons stated for the termination?
~Was this individual in the protected class?
~Who was listed in the peer group analysis?
~Were each of those listed in the peer analysis more experienced and/or better prepared to handle your responsibilities? If not, does the ex-employee believe that the elimination of his position had more to do with age discrimination?
~Did the ex-employee ask for a copy of his or her file? Was this request mention in the terms of the Severance Agreement?
~Did the ex-employee ask for a letter of recommendation? If so, was this request reflected in the Severance Agreement?
~Did the ex-employee offer his or her services as a consultant, (to use when someone was on maternity leave for example). If so, what terms were negotiated? Were these terms mentioned in any changes made in the severance agreement?
~How and with whom were these terms negotiated?
~What was the process?
~Did the employee simply make a verbal or written request for changes? If so, whom did they send their request of modifications to?
~Were the terms of the agreement negotiated by the ex Dell/EMC employee?
~Did he or she retain an attorney? If so, whom?
~Did he or she fear having the severance package on the table withdrawn?
An attorney advised us that any written requests for modifications could motivate Dell to
withdraw the Severance Agreement.
~Did he or she ask for an extension on the time before the Severance Agreement had to be executed? If so, was that request granted and how long of an extension?
~How long did the process take?
~What changes in the Severance Package were requested?
~What was the basis of each request?
~Did the arbitrators seem to side more with Dell than the ex-employee?
~Did the arbitrators agree with the justifications presented with each change requested? If not, why not?
~What positive changes were made in your severance agreement?
~Did the modifications in the severance package include:
*The company paying for life, disability, accident and health insurance benefits (for himself and his dependents) ?
If so, for what period of time?
*Additional pay? If so, how much/what percentage?
*Additional vacation and or other time paid?
*Elimination of the Non-Compete Agreement
*Elimination of the verbiage about restricting the recruiting Dell EMC employees?
*Did you negotiate hiring your own outsourcing service? (Please explain)
*Please list other positive modifications made to the Severance agreement.
In the end, was the ex-employee pleased that he or she requested changes in the Severance Agreement?
Was the package withdrawn?
Were terms that did not benefit the ex-employee inserted into the agreement?
As you can imagine, being tossed away like a piece of trash after so many years of dedicated service is demoralizing. When you have dedicated most of your career to Dell EMC it is difficult to reinvent yourself and move on. Worse yet, at an old age and considering the Corona virus and the current economy, the chances of finding employment are slim to none.
It’s not fake. EMC actually gave a crap about their employees and gave them a great severance package. Dell, who all about stuffing money into their upper management products cut it. They could careless about their employees. They don’t even want to give them cubes!!
Cyclone is a gamble. MSD will pay the price for this mistake.
If Hopkinton is cesspool. What's that make Austin and the losers to L-Dell.
I got it. Morons in a living hell
Hopkinton is a cesspool of inefficiency. All the good folks have already left. Only the useless are remaining and to top it they have taken up inflated titles from VP to Directors. They are also making up product decisions just to survive. Most of these programs will never see the light of the day. They are just for buying more time.
It's not fake
They let workers go all the time some groups lose workers based on how many in the group work in the US vs low wage part of the world
Each group needs a certain percent working in low wage GEOs
@NHdI3Bx-rvb: I do not think this is a fake post. I personally know about couple of my former colleagues in Hopkinton who had the same faith in 2017.
The point is, in 2016 you COULD retire and get a similar package, as several people I know did, But in 2017, that retirement package is gone, so I'm rather grateful (in some ways) to have been laid off which is now the only way to get this kind of severance package. It's curious that the 2016 retirement package program was well advertised at Dell-EMC but its elimination in 2017 was not publicly stated, as least not that I saw.
Any Dell Legacy layoffs?
They are not dumb :) If you want to voluntarily retire (when no package is offered) they will just let your a-- go without any Severance Package.
Sorry, not a fake post. Hop Bldg 171, DPD,, IOCE, Integrated Offerings, Isolated Recovery, I'm not terribly worried that folks are not convinced of my post. During the process, I learned my layoff had been planned for months. Why it was done now and not a while ago, I have no idea. As far as I know, no one else has been affected. I had made no secret of moving to another state in September or of retiring "soon" so I'm sure I was an easy target and I knew this was quite possible and was ok with it.
This is a fake post. There is no impact in Hopkinton. Layoffs are planned next month in July not this month.
You must be a troll, which business unit, which building, which product line and which department.
I know hundreds of engineers and no one got effected recently, even employees with fake degrees and experience and those in HR list.
Fake post
If you are 50+ be on watch. Layoffs will be targeting the old and experienced.