Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

EMC AE = kings of pipeline sandbagging. Wild wild west

@a3 I have no idea if this transferred from EMC to Dell, but back in the day EMC definitely tracked at least cell phone location. That's how they caught an AE in my office fudging expense reports. He would submit faked receipts for expensive customer dinners while his cell phone showed him at a completely different location.

Wonder what percentage of Dell managers have integrity. It's got to be very low. Management with integrity don't seem to last very long in Dell ...

The best moment of my tracked working life was when I entered certain information and management quickly rolled out an ‚AI Expert Management‘ training. It has its positive sides too.

The only problem is the company. The people who actually know their stuff show less, while some clueless managers keep their jobs because of the political structure.

What a life…

In most counties it's simply illegal to monitor that kind of activity. It's an invasion of privacy.

@ch

If Meta can do it, so can Dell. Meta implemented the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), a tracking program for U.S.-based employees and contractors designed to record computer activity to train artificial intelligence models. I am sure it isn't a stretch to think that they are also parsing out other data to find out what employees are up to.

I did a lot, but all I got in return was a kick in the teeth, a la oppression

Good, hopefully they are realising i am doing sweet feck all and let me go....

You give Dell too much credit. You really think they can correlate all that? Take a look at any one of their recent endeavors and tell me they have done anything successfully modernization effort wise. Why would this be any different?

@bh I’d love for them to realize how much I actually do. Now if I could only get them to pay me fairly for it.

@bd

100%

I think they use the keystroke monitoring to find out exactly what everybody is doing. What website are you going to? What meetings are you attending? etc etc. IF and this is a BIG IF, they can correlate everything, you get a pretty good idea of what people are doing. IF it's true, you can now plan out next steps. Do we have an AI that can replace a human being or just parts of what a human does everyday? Even if it they can't replace everyone yet, I am sure they gather more and more data. Again, there are a lot of IFs here.

Nobody is manually reviewing every log, but that's not the point. AI agents can analyse enormous amounts of activity, summarise conversations, flag specific keywords, identify patterns, detect unusual behaviour and trigger alerts when something gets picked up.

I'm not suggesting management is necessarily sitting there monitoring everything. They may be, they may not be. The bigger point is that all this activity becomes data that can be processed, analysed and potentially fed into AI systems.

Think about it: you don't need someone watching your screen or listening to every conversation when technology can do the monitoring for them. It can connect the dots across emails, Teams messages, meeting transcripts, browsing activity and internal systems far quicker than any human could.

Just because nobody is watching in real time doesn't mean the information isn't being collected, stored or analysed. There's a big difference between being monitored by a person and being monitored by a system.

Hasn't that really always been the case? and since managers have like 57 ppl to manage each now minimum (slight exaggeration) , who has time to sit and sift through my transcripts? Unless you are doing something blatantly against corporate policy, how bad could it be if they know we think most things are stupid or hate the tools? actually curious - since you seem to be in the know...

So you are saying management knows what we think of them? Wow! Fantastic.

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What if customers find that out and sue us, since in some countries that's a crime?

I am even hearing that your company cell phone is being monitored. Not sure if that is true.