Companies that have punitively restructured their comp plan, rarely walk it back. A return to a fair comp plan only happens when one of three breaking points hits: Regrettable Attrition Hits Top Performers: Right now, Dell is fine with... — read more
Tech Times -Dell Sales Employees Say They Are Owed Thousands in Commissions After Eight Months Without Full Payments
https://www.techtimes.co.uk/dell-employees-allege-unpaid-commissions-odw-transition-1809626
There is NO reason for Dell to be this stingy at this point, except for pure greed
Ok, I get the pull back and stinginess due to Covid - 2020-2021/2022 but cmon... that stuff is far gone now. The forced everyone remote which was great! They gutted the onsite medical clinic, took the gym away, and even pulled out the Corp WiFi... — read more
Ok so, stock is WAY overinflated and as per usual, "record breaking" quarter email incoming
So... WHY have insperity points been unavailable to recieve/give? I mean come on. Nobody gaf about a "shout out" or any "award" with no points lol. The budget IS there but they are being - as usual - weirdly stingy and greedy. I mean, I'd prefer... — read more
Dell UK: CWU/UTAW Update – Statutory Process and Union Membership
The Communication Workers Union (CWU), through its United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW) section, has now commenced the formal statutory process under UK employment law to secure workplace access at Dell UK, following its earlier voluntary... — read more
How much do you trust your manager?
On a scale from 1 to 10.
UK: CWU Trade Union Requests Access to Dell UK Sites
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has formally written to Dell UK requesting voluntary access to UK workplaces, allowing union representatives to engage directly with employees, explain their employment rights, and provide information about trade... — read more
ISR vs ISM payscales
Hi folks. I've always heard (but never seen proof with actual numbers) that it's absolutely possible, and actually quite common, that higher grade AEs have a higher total compensation than their own managers (usually Senior Manager levels). I was... — read more
We need to start a Labor Union
I'd prefer it be for ALL of tech but that's far fetched... but we can start with Dell! We need 30% of employees to sign a petition which can then be brought to NLRA and likely be voted as a "yes." Then we have a union...
ODW CSG
After spending the weekend trying to recalibrate my mental health following the absolute disaster that is ODW, it's back to it tomorrow. Oh, the dread. Why is it so unbelievably bad? And this isn't just a case of complaining because it's a new tool... — read more
We can’t afford raises this year
“We can’t afford raises this year, but here’s an email announcing our record-breaking profits.” Corporate Comms
How much managerial attention is directed towards tracking badge swipes and RTO attendance?
If any manager has experience, please let us know what you are looking at the most and what happens if you have attendance issues on your team
Roles & Levels at Dell
Reading these posts is sobering and the amount of discontent listed here should make any exec concerned about the future of the company. Anyhow, I am in Dallas and without work for 7 months now, I am an IC specializing in Infrastructure/Networking... — read more
TD Checkin...
Anyone bothering with this?
2027 Dell report only 7 percent
Of the revenue Dell did in 2026. 2027 will be brutal for Michael Dell and his employee's
question about endorsements
Can anyone verify if the questions are the same as the baseline attempt for tries 2 and 3? for the technical accumen portion.
Dell down 34% in a month
It's a blood bath for Dell today
How many managers does one company need?
Every group seems to have an absurd number of people managing other people instead of getting anything done. Cut down the hierarchy and let the employees breathe for once.
Teams = Big Brother
I work in IT, and here's something worth keeping in mind. Be careful what you say during Microsoft Teams calls. Even when a meeting isn't being recorded, it is still being transcribed. There's a bot that joins calls in the background, and you won't... — read more
Why Dell is laying off people on an even larger scale than other companies?
Dell is one of the few biggest beneficiaries of this AI bo-m, similar to Nvidia and SK Hynix... SK Hynix gave 10% of its profits to employees. Dell making so much money, Unlike other companies that spend money buying servers without seeing returns... — read more
Sales Endorsements
Fed just got theirs and they are due Dec. 3. How did it go for the commercial side? For AEs, there is a SIGNIFICANT jump in technical accumen expectations. Does anyone on the other side of this from commercial have tips for how you can suddenly... — read more
Tech Support shithole
Hi everyone, does anyone in support have any idea how to get out of this sh-t hole? I've been in the same role for six years now. Given the freeze and the country I'm in, which offers very few requisitions, do you have any ideas on how to change... — read more
Why does Dell keep investing in enterprise software it can't deliver?
Every hardware vendor builds or outsources utilities to expose and manage its hardware features. That's table stakes. Dell, however, goes much further, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on in-house development and acquisitions of... — read more
You think Michael Dell is going to lose
155 billion and let you peasants work in peace. Nope
Beware Fraud with Health savings account debit cards
I was laid off earlier this year from Dell. I accessed my Alight Hsa account and found multiple fraudulent debit card transactions posted to my account to the amount of hundreds of dollars. Alight customer service told me the debit card used was... — read more
Down 12%
That hurts. Is the bubble popping?
ODW launch - share your feedback
Today is the big day ODW is launching for CSG. Share your feedback here about this trainwreck
U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947
https://fortune.com/article/why-did-us-workers-just-take-home-smallest-share-of-capital-since-1947-lowest-ever-recorded/
You want to believe leadership?
Think twice. Summer: You are going to be the ones leading us through this transformation. Fall: Almost entire team laid off, including the manager. Criteria for the ones left: "low cost location". :D
PPDM, built on DD, is just outdated, crusty lipstick on a pig
The last Dell engineering cheerleader ran away with his tail between his legs. He still hasn't figured out that it's not about fast ingestion times or legacy on-prem dedup ratios. Those days are long gone. It's about - and always has been about -... — read more
Some of you at dell have no idea how good you have it
50% the people around here spend their days sitting in airconditioned offices drinking free coffee, sittn in meetings about other meetings and moving numbers around in excel. all while collecting 6-figure salaries. yet everyone is miserable... — read more
IC or Eng Mgr?
12+ years in backend engineering, mostly building large-scale distributed systems, with some AI/ML experience over the past couple of years. I'd consider myself an average senior engineer. At this point in my career, does it make more sense to stay... — read more
MB Managers
what happened with the MB managers that got laid off today? Anyone know why? It isn't like they were under performing
Stock 10% Down - Black Friday Arrived Early
Hmmmm, hope it recovers soon
Is "Tell Dell" just BS?
If not, what it is? Who benefts?
OKC
I thought that place shut down? Now I see cars there
Goodbye to 80 Indians
So 80 medium business and small business ISRs in India came to work yesterday morning and were fired on the spot.
Collective Action coming
I was contacted on LI from a large law firm about a developing case against Dell. I think I know who referred them to me, but wondering if anyone else has been contacted? I did talk with them and sounds like they have a big group of people already... — read more