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[–] [email protected] 199 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Remote workers tell Dell they got a promotion at another company and are giving their 2 weeks notice. 🤞

[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dell executives celebrate over lines of coke after successfully getting people to leave on their own without paying severance

[–] Grandwolf319 6 points 5 months ago

This is why the solution is worker laws that forces companies to offer remote option for certain titles/roles.

[–] independantiste 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

That's exactly what dell wants, it's a way to do layoffs without the bad PR and without having to pay the benefits (or whatever they are called). They know full well a good chunk of people working at home don't want to go back to the office and will hunt for another job instead.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure but doesn't mean you can't be applying and interviewing on their dime. This bullshit isn't anything new and only leads to the company retaining the blow average employees. If you can leave and get a raise in the process you should.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Performance is irrelevant if you're gone by the time of your next review.

[–] Grandwolf319 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah that’s the most fucked up part, it’s still bad for the company, but not next quarter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's a way to do layoffs without the bad PR

In what world isn't this bad PR? I know it's making me never want to work for Dell or buy any of their computers again.

[–] independantiste 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Layoffs look way worse on a headline than this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Depends. Your shareholders might like it and send the stock up a few points.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

There's layoffs all the time at Dell. There were two rounds last year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The thing corporations are risking though when they do this, is brain drain. Brain drain is a real and dangerous thing for a corporation.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The sad thing is a lot of companies are doing the same thing...

I'm job hunting rn and most of it is hybrid or in office. I am not saying all of them are I seen a few that are remote but they feel sorta rare at least for the jobs I'm looking at (graphics programming, games and GPU stuff).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you entertained the idea of agreeing to a hybrid job and sorta just appear fewer and fewer times in the office? It's been working for me so far.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Most of them seem to mandate a fixed number of days in office. Some even say specifically certain days. I dunno... currently software job market feels pretty fucked up rn, but I been getting some good interviews so hopefully it all works out.

For WFH something I might be able to do is recently I was diagnosed autistic and my diagnosis documentation lists WFH as a workplace accommodation.. so I could pull that card but I for sure am not gana bring that up till I have actually accepted an offer and have started working for a bit of time. And even then I am not sure how it will play if I tell them that, how it will effect things or how they treat me. It's all kinda fucky.

[–] restingboredface 5 points 5 months ago

Yep, and all the remote jobs get hundreds of applications immediately.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

I went from fully remote to hybrid (2 days in office) and it's not bad. Got a $30k raise for the trouble, and the job security is much better because the pool of local candidates is much smaller than a remote employee who can hire from anywhere.