Technology

lmaoooo Murica is just 10 companies in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country

Alternative headlines:

• Dell wants to contribute to global warming for no good reason.
• Dell wants to expose workers to death by automobile for no real reason.

So Dell wants to do a layoff of sales staff, and is going to lose their best performers first.

I'll be looking for work in about 3 months and my hard line is wfh.

I will never work in an office with people again.

Why the fuck would any office worker whose job is 100% on a computer need to be in an office? I don't understand why companies want to pay for all of that electricity and real estate just to make people sit in cubicles.

Funny how all of these companies have the same policy regarding returning to work, despite the fact that a dozen or so studies exist that prove empirically that employee productivity increased during the WFH era.

Real estate investments and oil production are the only American dream. Productivity doesn't mean shit if oil stops flowing or real estate values evaporate. The ruling class doesn't care if you finished your excel spreadsheet by 4pm.

Quite right too. The most important factor for me when buying a computer is that the sales droid is in an office. All those CPU, RAM and disk numbers are secondary to that.

I'm beginning to think companies are doing this to get people to leave by themselves

The most important lesson I have learned throughout my career is that large corporations are not worth working for. Too much "HR" interference.

The best work environments I have ever been a part of is when I worked for smaller businesses that were still made up of actual people and not nameless/faceless/soulless "corporate HR departments", who's sole purpose is to "make corpo more money no matter the means".

Because making calls and using a computer requires a specific lacale...

More like "sales teams are the reason middle managers think ALL employees slack off when not watched."

I get that sales is a SUPER depressing culture, a ridiculously antiquated work environment, and full of some utterly soul-sucking mandates from above, but I have never seen, in any workplace, a team that needs someone constantly riding herd on them like the sales team.

Every place I've worked, every place that a place I've worked has had as a client, and every business I've ever visited had the same problem -- sales people are largely unmotivated because their job has a much higher chance to SUCK OUT LOUD than most of the other jobs at a given company.

When five figure quarterly bonuses, daily friendly team competitions for gift cards, more paid-for-by-the-company outings than the c suites get and pickle ball on company time twice a week aren't enough to hype people up to do their actual job, something is really fucking wrong with the job expectations.

They would ask you to return to the ashes if the office burnt down.

Time to fire half the workforce.

Before you do that... I have a better idea

This is how they cull us now. Make us quit.

I quit answering my dell sales buy. His quotes have been above what I can get buying right off the website. Their premier login must tack on a 25% charge.

Now they can play golf together instead of by themselves.

Unless it's the initial outreach team or on-premises staff, sales would be one of the few roles totally suited to remote working.

Some of the more creative or collaborative roles I can see the argument for hybrid working - even if it's just one day a week or month in the office - but sales, customer service, or first line support seems to be the last area you'd impose a return to work mandate on.

That said, I haven't got extortionate office rents to justify 😂

Sales Team tells Dell to return to Linkedin?