Dell complaints

[jazzjackrabbit]

[always_screwed]

First of all, Dell calls it a layoff, but in real, they fire, and I said FIRE, people for farting wrong. They FIRE people that they don't want reqardless of their performances, at least in the manufacturing part. I work for a company that's the opposite of HDell...

I can't believe that they are companies out there that actually treat their employees like human beings and an important asset to their company. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming..

Almost everywhere I interviewed before I landed this amazing job I have now, always asks "Why does Dell treat their employees bad?" and "Why everybody hates Dell?" So, the word is out about that dump. This is the truth and what other companies I've interviewed with are asking.

[paul_dellcc]

[Dell Boi]

Wow, I remember this forum lol, wonder if anyone remembers me.

Anyways, i'm thinking about a XPS 720 H2C as my next buy...
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[Rocke_T_Sinetist]

Jack:

[TestMaggot]

[pinto4me]

Rocke ..................YOU ROCK................That is the BEST reply I have ever seen, however we should take some pity on this person. So blinded by their hopes and dreams. Of course we all would like to have them read and consider the Posts herein before turning a blind eye, because we all started out at Dell with the same hopes and dreams and it took us all awhile to see past the BULL. So to the "rabutt", again...THINK before you speak, your in the BIG Leagues now, Baby

[Partsguru]

Just to add my pennyworth, although it's all been said in various ways before.....
I worked for Dell for 16 years. I was fortunate to be made redundant and got a pretty good pay-off : however my managers did their level best to try to sack me in my notice period so they didn't have to pay. In addition we were informed we were "not required" to work the last two days - I didn't realise that meant "you're history" and was walked off the premises like a criminal when I had the audacity to turn up for my own benefit.

Hey ho.. so much for loyalty. In retrospect I could and should have got out long before but the payoff was nice. What always used to wind me up was not Dell's attitude in particular but the sheer hypocrisy of saying one thing and doing virtually the opposite in terms of staff and customer satisfaction ( sorry, headcount and CE Metrics ), and being part of an "avoidance-of-blame" culture run by "never mind the truth look at the pretty colours" management, using Statistics to an absurd degree and for the sole purpose of highlighting weakness in performance not strength.

What is revealing is the length of time it takes for this realisation to sink in. People I used to talk to always seemed to have some concept of when "it suddenly got worse" - for me this was about 1993 in the fall-out of the first big product recall ( anyone remember the exploding SLi notebook?) and long before most people in the UK had even heard of Dell let alone started working for them - but even new starters seem to have a honeymoon period of about 18 months. How long does that give the rabbit?

The sad thing is that Dell could change this - but to do so would cost money, so they won't. And I wouldn't work for Dell again if it was the last employer in the UK.

[rankandfile]

Enjoy that education they are helping pay for. It won't be long until they are telling you that your school schedule just won't work with your work schedule. And, they are actually going to advance you through the ranks magically once you have your degree? Heck, they can't even seem to advance the people that already have a degree (or two).

Three weeks of vacation time? I think you mean three weeks of sick time, late time, and vacation time. Good luck accumulating that time. If you finally get enough time to take a real vacation, then good luck actually getting the entire time off. Inevitably, someone else will already have one or two of the days that you want, and your vacation will be denied.

I hope, for the sake of my own curiosity, that you come back in 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months, and tell us how you feel about Dell. Those are the increments that people generally burn out with smoking the Dell CCP (Corporate Crack Pipe).

[Gairak]

Dell, as any ther company, is as good as yor experience on it. I worked with them for 4 years and I would do it again. My experience was a mix of bad and good situation. I found preferences I found also honest promotions.
Nothing is black or white, I just ear something I still remember "A true professional put himself in a position where the success is inevitable"
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Mr.B

[incident_man]

Jack is simply...delusional.

[Steveo]

If dell are doing so well, can you explain why there are the number three in the world for laptops and number two in the world for desktops? and you're making 90K a year, sure you are.... just like Im the king of the world.

[nashdell]

Dell is the entity responsible for all the cattle mutilations that you read about at http://www.earthfiles.com.
This is why Dell is such a good place to work.
Just think about it they remove all the critical organs from cows out in the fields leaving no traces of blood on the animal or on the ground.
There have been traces of hemoglobin found around some of the animals upon occasion and that requires the use of a centrifuge.
A centrifuge is a device that you place blood in and it spins around at high speed separating it and squeezing every last drop of liquid from it!
This is exactly the same thing that they do to their employees.
So if you work for Dell, then at night be sure and spend no time alone and isolated outside. If you do not and you ignore this warning you will be found with all of your internal organs removed along with your lips and ears.
Your brain will be removed from your head with surgical precision.
They will retain every drop of your blood (just like at Christmas)
So train your family now on how to "deal with ambiguity"!
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http://bitsnbites.org/dellenron.htm

Michael Dell: "I think that you’ve got to look at the reputations of the people that you’re going to go work for and work with. And say, ‘Do I believe these people, do I trust them?"

[Gairak]

That's the breaking point at Dell. Why? Because poor management use this as an excuse to raise the bar every time you reach an "impossible" goal. There is a limit to every design and the breaking point at Dell is this actitude from many managers. You must smile and jit on the back to become manager? maybe, ...but the company defend other principes on the surface. but the system as a desing in which only the ruthless can achieve success. Only 1 about a 10,000 can help everyone and get the gold? Dell a a nice experiment (in management of people) that repeat itself by changing all subject in cycles (managers and empoyees) [/quote]
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Mr.B

[Gairak]

""deal with ambiguity"!" that's the breaking point at Dell.... sorry don't paste it before
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