Lately, I have been seeing low - mid level managers exhibiting behaviors similar to back in the late 80's - early 90's, where companies treated you with an attitude that you were lucky to have a job. Consequently, management would make the staff do work that they knew the staff didn't want to do just to try to drive them out. I surmised this was a tactic to save the additional costs of severance packages.
I have started to see that attitude and behavior resurface over the past year, something that didn't really exist in the EMC culture.
Has this been the attitude/behavior within the Dell culture, or is this isolated to the management I am witnessing?