Dell has lied and mislead me from day one. I was hired on at six figures and with the understanding I would be in a specific area. Before training was even over I was moved to a different territory, at my own expense. A few months later I was told that my pay was outside the normal range for others in the company and so my salary would be adjusted to match others in the company at my level. Vacation that was promised was also adjusted down and eligibility for when I received it was changed so that there was NO vacation days during the first year.
Then we were notified of a pay and territory "restructuring". Travel became nearly 100% as the territory size was more than doubled. Long awaited help that had been promised in the form of new hires to ease some of the load was denied and pay was cut IN HALF. They promised that it could be made up in bonuses but would never tell us what those numbers were and so consequently no bonuses were ever paid. This happened to large numbers of my colleges as well as myself. People who had been there a while started to bail but I was just reaching a year and didn't want to mess up my resume' with such a short duration job so I stuck it out and believed them when they said it would get better. It never did.
Finally, after putting with another quarter of bonuses being denied and the target being reset to the half instead, the inevitable happened. Rumors of a lay-off started. Rumors became certainty when a memo was leaked to some of the teams that the company was not going to pay bonuses even though some people had made their numbers. Additionally, the memo said that they were planning a "force reduction". Sure enough at the end of January I, and scores of others, were formally let go. And to add insult to injury now they are trying to stick me with the last expense report!
