Dell has reached the point in the corporate lifecycle where every expense that makes the job tolerable will be cut until the only people left are those that can't leave. It's always a bad sign when 'concerns about productivity' lead to time tracking that destroys productivity just so clueless, out of touch cake eaters can have a single tableau report that sorts staff into a single metric that tells them whom to fire. Which is doubly hilarious because leadership is the source of the lost productivity by over working people they deny the right tools to. Rest and pay are tools. Mortgages can't be paid with a voucher for crisis counselling-- which is doubly funny as the crises usually stem from work failing to meet our needs for down time and affording existence. They push us to make tools to increase automation, take ownership of them, pay us nothing for them, and then use the increase in productivity to lay people off instead of overwork people less. With Covid, Dell spent years bragging about how being remote made us even more profitable and productive. In lock step with every other tech corpo, they said return to office or be fired. No raises for the commute, having to buy cars, or the increase in inflation. The executives said competitors aren't raising pay, so we won't either. This coming from people claiming to be leaders in doing the right thing- It's all gaslighting nonsense. The COO of Dell just this year made $25M. In one year, he made more than my entire team will make in the sum of their lives combined. With a $2 dividend, the half a million shares he owns pays $250,000 every quarter. Well more than twice the full years wage of most principal engineers. Automatically for just being paid the stock. The best manager I have ever had was laid off so they could put 25-30 engineers under every manager- a ratio at basically ensures the manager can't manage to any real level that matters. I have been working at Dell for over 10 years and have gained many skills, certifications, and promotions, but when I adjust for inflation, I made now what I made when I started. Front lines are run ragged. They're constantly told they have to train and upskill but they're also yelled at if they're not on the phone 24/7. Executive management is solely concerned on patting themselves on the back for the illusion of doing anything more than cutting headcount to give themselves bigger raises after handing 10s of millions to consultants to tell them to do what they already planned to and then tell workers there just isn't money for cost of living increases. Every year Dell has internal surveys and the last was basically 100 point swing from kind of approving to uniform disapproval. We rush out half baked solutions no one documents, understands, or trains us on, and then make techs learn on the fly on buggy customer systems deployed by people that don't seem to reference the same guides.
