... you up and moved your home, your family, your life for RTO only to be laid off shortly after you got there.
Dell is such a joke of a company.
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I’ve never moved for a company.
Remember - when a corporation gives that ultimatum to its employee(s), it’s often with the hope they’ll say ‘NO’.
Let that sink in.
Sorry to hear this man.
If it were me though, and given the way Dell has been the last 6-8 years I would have looked for a new job because Dell won't chip in for relocation and, well... given how layoff happy they are, it's just a massive risk.
Same. With what companies are doing today with layoffs, you need to live week by week or month by month.
My rule over a 30+ year career is I never, ever changed something in my personal life for my work, unless it was something my family wanted, and it coincided with the work change or move. For 30 years I treated my "career" as a temp job that lasted no longer then the end of the month, not a great way to live, but it all worked out in the end.....
For all the young people reading this.
Don't do this. Especially, if you have a spouse and kids. Because, when it comes time to uproot yourself, it turns into a bad situation.
I would never uproot my family for a company. Period. I’d find another job first. After all the years in Corp America, sorry, you should have seen this coming. I do get it though. Lifers are up there in salary. I know many lifers now stuck because they know they can’t make the same elsewhere. They are scared to death now and can’t move because they have become accustomed to their high salary and are looking at 20-50K less if they leave.
@ck Go make another d-mb T-shirt JC
Raise your hand if you're a d-mb@$$, sc--wed up, threw your whole life into upheaval all because you trusted someone else's word. DTA.
@br That Dell is a shiiithole greedy company.
So, what did we learn?
I wonder if "remote is ok we are never coming back" was a well thought out plan to move high salary/long tenured people out?
Knowing they would cut them (us) eventually
Was RTO just a ruse to slice salary & headcount?
It’s obviously sh***y on Dell’s part, but uprooting your family for a company renowned for U-turn policies and layoffs was not the move
Dell did support in a few years back. Then, reversed it.
It's a cr@ppy lesson to learn about any company. Things can change.
If pressed by management, find the article where Dell showed support. If you can line it up with your move, it should give the justification. If pressed further, you may need legal advice.
What role are you in? Engineering? Support? Sales? Professional Services?
Nope. I didn't trust Dell enough to uproot my family and move on their behalf.
So sorry, still can’t believe how the remote working policy reversed