#government

Seriously.

Regardless of department you are in, find a way into the fed space and your life will be so much easier and you 100% are significantly less likely to be laid off.

Sales? It's a smaller team/group and the bulk of your money is made during FBS - which su-ks because you work longer and sporatic hours for a month.5 - but you have almost a guarenteed career long client as they are only Government agencies.

Tech support? Find a way into FIRST. Federal Incident Response Team. It's INTERNAL FED tech support to JUST fed employees and you can't be offshored like corp tech support can and there is no outside tech support bs. You ONLY deal with federal DELL employees.

IT? - It's a smaller environment, less complex, far fewer switches/routers/firewalls/etc... A much simpler IT environment through and through.

Managers - I mean, having been one in the past; I'd far prefer to manage 10 people versus 20? Considering every team in FED is quite small, anyways.

FED brings in a LOT of money to Dell considering the department size. We are valuable and not a single person can be offshored and 99% can't even be outsourced. Dell doesn't touch FED with layoffs 99% of the time as we are so small and, we are the last resort/option.

YES, people can and do get laid off in FED but it's far far FAR less likely than in literally any department on the corporate side.

Plus, you get a cool red badge!

I don’t know how many of you sell any client systems with ProSupport but nearly all of US support has been moved to Panama and Costa Rica. The only reason there’s any US agents left is because of Federal contracts but I’m sure they’ll find a way around that. Feels like deceptive marketing but they changed it to say ‘In region’ now.

I’ve also had some sales agents contact me about exchanges. You can’t get a system exchange if you receive a dead unit within the first 30 days. They have to go to care (good luck) or get a service call before even being considered. The goal is no exchanges at all even when warranted. They did a ‘cost of dsat’ analysis and determined it wasn’t worth a good survey to spend the money on it.

I feel powerless at trying to ‘save the sale’ from tech support sometimes because of our stupid processes.

Just random tech support venting. AMA

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-is-missing-the-biggest-offshoring-companies-150924712.html

"Such filings indicate that at least 450 IBM workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2015 because the company moved the work overseas. But the real number is most likely higher, since one-third of the filings either don’t say how many workers were affected or contain redactions that obscure the information. One filing, on behalf of laid-off workers in Connecticut, said 'IBM refuses to provide this information.'"

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"IBM moved American jobs to India, China, Bulgaria, Egypt, Brazil and Costa Rica, according to the filings. On some of the forms, workers indicated they were required to train their foreign replacements in order to receive severance pay. 'We were managers who laid off our staff (and then were let go too),' one petition reads. 'My staff was, at its peak, a couple hundred people. We were only part of the large scale movement of production from IBM’s GTS [Global Technology Services] organization in the US to India.'"

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"A handful of companies stood out. The 24 TAA petitions relating to IBM were far more than any other company we looked into,. . ."

Seems as if some things never change.

Good that Shell Oil has fired very excellent performers since the contractors or full timers are no longer needed for Shell and why the Shell company needs to retain such employees.

It is very good that the Shell has fired all under performed employees at #Bangalore. Now it will remove all contractors of #Accenture, #IBM and #Wipro whoever are working at One Shell Plaza and Two Shell Plaza and other offices located in Houston,Texas.

Also it has plans to remove all contractors even in California Shell Office,Malaysia and other Asian locations of Shell.

All full timers and especially contractors need to look for other jobs but looks like they rarely fit for other jobs since the work environment at shell is like a #Government of India where people get huge salaries for not doing any work.