If not, what it is? Who benefts?
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I've been eviscerating Dell in TD for years ever since they changed their tune in '23 or so. Like, no holds barred, no punches pulled, nothing.
I've not had so much as a manager bring it up to me.
It's all performance theater.
BS? No. Performative theater? Yes.
Here take this survey we designed to get the outcome we wanted. Let the peons grumble.
It’s the same garbage in (tools, pay, etc.) and the same garbage out (improved, simplified, time back) year after year with no perceptible change.
The culture is NOT play nice but win. It IS hubris and YOU are the replaceable cog. Your feelings? F that. Your customers? F them. Meet Dell rep #40 for the most important quarter of your life.
And let’s not forget a big INSINCERE thank you. I don’t need your vague platitudes. You don’t know my dad is sick or my wife got laid off or my kid graduated high school. So very out of touch…
No, no. THANK YOU…
Tell Dell is a scam. It's edited. Our team gave honest but harsh criticism of our incompetent manager in a previous Tell Dell. But what he presented was nothing anyone wrote. We know because we shared our comments with each other. The whole thing is a lie and a scam. None of us will ever take it again.
The only one who benefits are managers that get enough people responding and get a good enough score to be considered "rock stars".
Fun fact: Not even they benefit enough because even if the direct reports love their manager, they will not get anything if enough of the team hates the company.
So the only "benefiting" from it are managers who run a huge psy-op or force people to vote a certain way, and still somehow manage to not come off as a complete a--hole.
It’s become like any other survey or rating - anything below a perfect score is considered unacceptable.
Which, of course, completely defeats the purpose of said survey or rating.
It IS - a referendum on the participant's direct manager.
It IS NOT - anything else.
Tell Dell is a scam. It's manipulated for propaganda. Don't take it. And it's NOT anonymous.
At this point, they just want to take the temperature of the employee population. It isn't going to stop the company from moving ahead with their plans. How do you recover from employees being angry about the situation. You can't and the company doesn't care.
Last year my group released their fury on the people manager in Tell Dell. She was new, quick to judge and simply incompetent. And on top of that , she was a remote. So what happened? They laid off the long-term group lead who was the best of the best in every way, and replaced the ousted group lead with this id--t. What is the use of Tell Dell? You tell me.
No benefit. The best thing to do is to not take it
Nobody. Don’t do it.