Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

@12w 100% accurate. 100 %by design, 100% they don't care. 100% customers will notice and revolt. 100% revenues propped up by a few neo cloud deals

Dell sells technology to help other companies run their businesses, yet its own salespeople are on here trying to figure out whether their commission statements are accurate. Leadership should be embarrassed that this conversation even needs to happen.

Miss your number and you get a PIP. Question the numbers used to calculate your paycheck and suddenly it’s a complicated process that requires patience. Accountability seems to get a lot more flexible the farther up the org chart you go.

SCORE has already been a problem for months. Seeing these reports continue makes every “we’re working on it” sound more hollow. People have mortgages, groceries, and kids. They cannot submit a support ticket to their electric company asking for an extension until Dell gets its act together.

Then come the layoffs. Your access gets shut off, your ability to verify your commissions goes with it, and you’re supposed to trust the same process you couldn’t reliably check while you still worked there. Where is the complete accounting? Who owns the corrections? Who makes sure former employees actually receive them?

Meanwhile, the people left behind get uncertainty, disrupted teams, and another speech about moving forward. You cannot keep dismantling people’s sense of security and then act confused when morale collapses. Employees remember what happens to their coworkers. Another town hall won’t erase it.

My opinion of leadership is simple: if you expect reps to answer for their results, you should answer for yours. Explain the failures. Publish correction deadlines. Reconcile every affected employee’s pay, including those you laid off. Put an actual person in charge who can resolve disputes.

And spare everyone the corporate values presentation until those basics are handled. Respect is pretty easy to print on a slide. Getting someone’s paycheck right would be a useful place to demonstrate it.

And while I'm at it, the wholesale elimination of entire organizations deserves its own conversation. From where I sit, leadership has become so consumed with control and reshuffling the org chart that it has lost sight of the actual business. If there was a sound reason for wiping out an entire organization, nobody gave us an explanation that matched the talent and experience walking out the door.

Years of customer relationships, technical knowledge, institutional memory, and exceptional sales talent—treated like disposable overhead. People who knew how to get things done, who customers trusted, who helped newer employees succeed. Tossed away like trash, followed by another polished announcement about “transformation in the AI era"

What exactly did you transform? Who now maintains those relationships, solves those problems, and teaches the next generation? Those capabilities took years to build. Deleting the positions doesn’t eliminate the need for the work.

It’s hard to respect leaders who demand loyalty while treating the people who earned it as expendable. Cutting an entire organization takes authority. Explaining why it was necessary—and answering for what happens afterward—takes leadership. And there is none of those left.

Straight talk: the AI bubble is bursting. The days of the neo deals carrying the business are over. They will have to reinvest in the core businesses and the people who work so hard to run them. Hopefully JC gets kicked to touch. And the dodgy relationship between MSD and the Trump administration gets investigated and shown for what it is. The good news is that MSD lost $36Bn of his own money this week just on the share price.

For anyone here not from Dell, SCORE is our system for tracking commission and orders we've booked. However it's been "conveniently" completely down, broken and unavailable for about six months. We went an entire quarter and beyond literally not being able to track our orders and commission to ensure were paid right, and in that time people were underpaid. Now the system is coming back but so many people have incorrect quota attainment and are about to be underpaid yet again. Inexcusable for a company of this size. Employee morale internally is horrifically bad

It’s absurd, and what’s more is the data is constantly fluctuating so you can’t track anything yourself. How is this legal????

They've had a lot of time to make it right but it's missing stuff.

sorry guys.

@OP MD will pay him even more when JC claims he fixed the cluster f-up that he himself created.

They don't care.

It doesn't look good for the second half.

Do I really need to check their work? I don't get it. SMH

What happens Feb 1st 2027? More quota increase?