r/cringereels • u/omarQV • 1d ago
Congratulations here is a picture of me
Do some companies respect their employees?
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
Just to frame the Mcfukery here. My father worked for Dell computers as a Developer and software engineer for 30 years(spanning from the mid-1990s to the mid-2020s). He was a direct builder of one of the largest digital transformations in tech history. While most people only see the physical laptops, a massive software machinery makes it all go. As a software engineer during Dell's golden era, my Dad spent decades writing low-level code, building complex cloud infrastructure and developed core web applications. He was there during the launch of the pioneer eCommerce engine in 1996, where developers built the complex backend database engines and pricing algorithms for Dell.com (to dynamically handle thousands of custom configurations in real-time).
He wrote the BIOS/UEFI firmware, IPMI network communication code, and OS deployment tools for the PowerEdge server line, specifically building out OpenManage so IT admins could monitor thousands of servers simultaneously.
Later on, during the historic $67 billion EMC integration in 2016, engineers like him were tasked with the monumental project of stitching legacy systems together and developing modern, cloud-native software-defined storage architectures like PowerStore to manage data across private and public clouds.
He was involved in Round Rock's massive internal modernization initiatives, where senior developers migrated decades of legacy backend infrastructure over to modern cloud architectures and streamlined internal developer toolchains to pave the way for AI and automation.
He's the reason why I am a programmer and working in this field (but I freelance for this very reason)
He did all that. He gave his life force to Dell. He lost sleep, lived up there and honestly gave them sooo much, above and beyond the call of duty.
He Retired.
They gave him a watch....it broke 3 months later...
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u/BoringTruckDriver 1d ago
I worked for Asda under Walmart for 10 years and learned very quickly that company loyalty means absolutely zero. Literally zero.
It was surprisingly freeing thought. I can take my skills anywhere now without any hesitation whatsoever, so long as it benefits me and my family.
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u/AwareAd7651 1d ago
Did they give him stock?
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
They were sold off and reset in 2013. He had near 10 years reallocated when he retired, he sold them off but honestly for all he did to help grow Dell he deserved more imo. I dunno maybe I'm just biased because this is my father yanno? That could be clouding my judgment honestly 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Randyaccredit 1d ago
If someone works for a big company over 30 years you should get permanent stocks in it and a hell of a lot more
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u/Juicyjewsss 1d ago
At least he got a pension (hopefully).
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
Dell does not have a traditional pension. He's on max Social Security Retirement (federal benefits) and his own personal investments. He did have stock options and 401k but when I was 29 The Silver Lake Leveraged Buyout (2013) happened & Dell went private, its public shares ceased to exist. My Dad's 401k Stock funds were forcibly converted into a flat cash payout of $13.65 per share.
It doesn't matter if you make a lot or if you don't make a lot if your wite collar or if your blue collar. The end result is the same. Bending you over the proverbial table and really giving it to you raw. The corporate fcking is without retribution, sadly
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u/AmazingSugar1 1d ago
that's insane, after going public for the second time in 2018, dell's stock trades at $451.71 today
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u/TinyAbbreviations467 1d ago
I might get downvoted, but what did he expect?
A mansion? A luxury yacht?
He had knowingly and willingly traded his skills and expertise for money, security and everything that came with that job.Idk why people think that their employer owes them something. Of course, if their contract has been violated its a different story.
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u/woodenforged 22h ago
You cannt blame him because his value is different from today value. Back then a company is as close as family, eventhough role exist hierarchy is not as rigid as today. The reasons you can talk about contract is because what this person experiencing.
Nowaday loyalty is worth shit, better do as what contract said and get advantage of the company you're in without getting caught.
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u/TinyAbbreviations467 14h ago
You are right. Loyalty isnt a thing nowadays and probably never was.
I am not blaming the man. I am just expressing that to me blaming the company isnt right.
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u/9lazy9tumbleweed 19h ago
Yea i always get confused about this to, especially this guy at dell who probably earned very good money.
My company is kind of cool if you work there 10 years you get an additional monthly salary as a bonus, same at 20, 30 etc. I think thats pretty good.
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u/WhiteSpots 16h ago
Staying with the same company for 30 years you likely end up with less earnings than job hoppers. Probably a million. So yeah, maybe more than a watch. But then that would eat into the million they saved.
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u/TinyAbbreviations467 14h ago
I understand where you are coming from, but still I dont think the employer has done anything wrong.
It’s hard to objectively quantify “what if he had job hopped”. The fact is that he didnt.
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People that do change their jobs also take an amount of risk to land on a worse one which isnt taken by the person who stays at theirs. Risk - reward ratio.2
u/b18bintegra 9h ago
I mean they used to offer much more. They used to give pensions, trips, jewelry, etc…back in the 70s I think, u know when housing, transportation, & groceries were affordable. Ahh groceries, what a word right? Groceries, lol /s
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u/Standard-Professor87 6h ago
he probably didnt expect anything but it wasnt that he had expectations. it was the fact that for a person that went above and beyond the expectations for a company and and aided and had a big impact on the company and the world and the best a billion dollar company could come up with for this man when they did realized his work was a cheap watch that didn't last three months at the point they shouldnt have even bothered because thats just an insult.
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u/iiillliiiiiiillilili 20h ago
I thought they fired him lol, your dad got lucky he must be a millionaire now, he was being paid good time, not like this guy in the video
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u/random_idiot_lul 18h ago
Bro you are over hyping this shit and I can say this because I did a bunch of low level firmware that you are describing for IBM which is very similar to Dell. You dad got paid a lot more than most people his age for his work. Who gives a flying fuck about a watch. Show me the money.
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u/Qronus12 14h ago
I've seen the documentary based on his life. It came out in 1994, and is called SPEED.
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u/veryuniqueredditname 6h ago
Fellow engineer here your Dad sounds like a real og hope he was well compensated along the way. Stories like that is why I have 0 corporate loyalty the ones on top and boards don't have a darn about the real doers
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u/Odd-Cut-746 4h ago
This is the problem with working in STEM. You tend to do very complex, high impact work but the reward is quite minimal. Meanwhile all the managers and execs who do none of the technical work receive all the credit and live better lives than the ones toughing it out developing the tech
As someone who works in tech, I genuinely regret picking R&D. Should have done a basic marketing or business degree and called it a day, would probably be better off financially now
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u/ChannelNo4811 1d ago
No watch? Or some other trinket?
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u/Commentor9001 1d ago
Loyalty isnt rewarded
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u/omarQV 1d ago
No wonder why employees don't show loyalty to the company
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u/soIDONTLIKEANYOFYOU 1d ago
Don’t ever be loyal to an employer because they are not loyal to you.
Take all your pto and vacation time.
Don’t give a 2 week notice.
Leave for better pay at another company.
Don’t stay late. (Unless overtime pay)
Don’t show up early. (Unless overtime pay)
Don’t answer their phone calls when off the clock.
Don’t do work that is not in your job description.Don’t trust your employer.
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u/omarQV 1d ago
Thanks for the advice man. Don't mind me screenshotting this.
The thing is; at my job i feel like my coworkers are taking advantage of me. They give me all the hard work everyday, they don't answer calls and let it all go to me. Some days i feel stressed and fall behind while they are doing the easy tasks. They are way older than me, and i am the only guy working there. I don't know if telling my boss about this is a good idea, i always think about the consequences.
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u/soIDONTLIKEANYOFYOU 1d ago
I don’t know what to tell you about your situation friend.
But I do know that the best time to look for a job, is when you already have a job. Start looking now and if you find something with better pay/benefits then there is your answer.
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u/itiswhatitiswgatitis 1d ago
If a job says "we're like family" or "my door is always open", stay away from those jobs. They will abuse you and not even change a shade.
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u/KingMacana 14h ago
I will say this. I am the new hire, I had worked for the company in the past a couple of decades, was let go for about 4 years, came back and everybody looked down on me gave me the sh*t jobs, they never answered calls, etc. they just would let me deal with it , Until I didn't, management started looking into it and they went to every person asking why the calls were not being answered, when they got to me I simply said that those calls were above my paygrade and senior techs should be answering the calls, some of the senior techs were reprimanded, I was promoted and now I hand out the daily jobs. Nuff said.
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u/FunCarob7239 1d ago
Why should we? That CEO would fire him in a heartbeat if it meant just a little more stock options this year for him.
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u/Nayre_Trawe 1d ago
CEO: Best I can do is a 10 minute break, but make sure to find someone to cover for you first.
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u/NukaClipse 1d ago
Thanks for being a long term servant for the company. Here's a picture of me living the good life while you continue to work for us till you die!
Everyday this mfer starts making more sense.
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u/evets702 1d ago
There’s a lot of shitty stories here and I’m not surprised. What I am surprised about is the one that involved my father in law, so I’ll share here to give you guys some hope.
My father in law worked as sales support for a large national hardware store. He worked there for something like 47 years. He was the longest serving employee at his retirement. Not the longest ever for the company but the longest active at the time. When he retired, he had a zoom call with the CEO. Talked to him for like 45 minutes. I was amazed. Like he just generally wanted to know about my father in law’s life and what drove him to stay with the company that long and how he can help make the company better. My FIL felt heard and obviously very proud of his tenure with the company and the opportunity to share his thoughts with the one person who could actually make the company better.
If it wasn’t for Covid, I wouldn’t be surprised if that CEO would have met him in person rather than a virtual call. One of the good ones.
And I know you’ll want to know so, it was Grainger and the CEO was D.G. Macpherson.
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u/Financial_County6303 1d ago
And why wasn't this knowledge dump before he was going out the door?
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u/evets702 1d ago
You can look for the negative in anything bro. If that’s the way you want to live, I feel sorry for ya.
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u/Far-Fisherman-3598 1d ago
In my company (Denmark), 40 years are rewarded with two months of salary + 5 days of holiday.
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u/thatgirlzhao 1d ago
Paid sabbaticals are still offered at some corporate companies in the U.S. after 5, 10, 15 etc. years. While certainly not the standard it’s not unheard of. I really wish our government would make it a requirement as I actually think it would have a lot of downstream benefits.
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u/TheRealRockyRococo 23h ago
Working at Linear Technology we got a 6 week sabbatical in addition to our regular vacation every 5 years. After we were acquired by Analog Devices they let me go after 29 years and 50 weeks but they assured me it had nothing to do with that.
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u/CreamXpert 1d ago
It's still peanuts.
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u/mrdanky69 1d ago
2 months salary isn't peanuts. The hospital i work at gives employees $200 after 20 years of service. After taxes it is around $175..
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u/netroxreads 1d ago
Can't imagine him having the same position for 50 years. I am sure it's taken out of context.
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u/spelunker93 1d ago
I don’t think it is. Guy says 50 years at seven eleven and the guy says yeah. A Guy I worked with at a gas station had been working there for 35 years and he’s much younger than this guy. I could totally see him working there until he retires. I really can’t picture him leaving
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u/gamingfreak50 1d ago
Gonna be honest here, while its shitty its more than alot of companys give. They should have sent him a hefty bonus as well though
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u/Maximum_Boros 1d ago
Hot take. IDGAF if I get a watch of a handjob or whatever else when I hit my work anniversaries.
I show up, I do work, I leave. Every 2 weeks I get paid the amount we all agreed on the previous year when I got my performance review and decided not to go work somewhere else because it wasn't enough.
If I'm being paid right and treated right on a daily basis, the anniversary is just a milestone for why I stick around. If you need an anniversary prize to feel justified for being there, reconsider your career bc it just means you feel like you were settling the other 364 days of the year.
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u/smurfk 1d ago
Why do people think that companies should offer grand prizes for being hired for a certain number of years? Sure, it's nice when they do something, but who cares? Dude in the video seems happy with it. Why do we assume he's not?
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u/Signal_Ad8960 1d ago
If you invest your time, effort, and life to a company, you should be rewarded for it.
Every year with you there is less time needed for hiring, interviewing, recruiting, and training. Low turnover rates also look better both to the higher ups and to the public. Familiar faces help build a sense of community.
Loyalty and being reliable are admirable traits that should be reinforced.
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u/smurfk 1d ago
But it's less of a hassle for the guy being employed too. He doesn't have to look for another job, doesn't need to learn doing something new. Should he also give prizes just because they don't replace him?
Agreement between me and the company is in the contract. I don't want more than that, and I surely don't want less. I don't want prizes or other silly things. I'm not a child. Pay me, give me good conditions to do my job, and let me be.
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u/TheRealRockyRococo 23h ago
It's hard to be loyal to an entity that will drop you because they need a single quarterly report to look better.
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u/chiefrelichunter 1d ago
Plot twist: he owns the company
Jk, in a perfect world that’s the plot twist. In an imperfect world fuck this lousy system that treats humans like trash 😢
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u/Osoroshii 1d ago
My 20th year just passed at my current employer and nothing. So I might be on track to get an email for my 50th.
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u/wcharoes 1d ago
>do some companies respect their employees?
I think a long time ago there was at least some reward for loyalty yeah. If you gave your working life making a fatcat rich while he compensated you a fraction of the wealth you created for him in exchange it was apparently common enough that it became well known that there was a more fitting reward above and beyond the pittance and scraps you were kicked back.
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u/That-Inflation8783 1d ago
Yeah this is the world we live in Unfortunately. The CEOs probably had department clerk send it out. Bill Gates has a bunch of stock in that company.
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u/WolfThick Cringe Level 1 1d ago
What company is this, I'd love to tell them how much they suck and how much they've turned me off put that in your executive ass and spin!
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u/johnmayersucks 1d ago
I go to work. They pay me an agreed upon wage. I can leave. I don’t expect a handjob after 20 years.
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u/Fl0ckwood 1d ago
I might be downvoted. But noone holds ppl at their jobs, and they r getting salary. If you dont like something, do a change
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u/Sea-Fox4457 1d ago
I didn't work for 2 years and did nothing but read and educate myself on things I wanted to know about. It wasnt a glamorous lifestyle but I learned alot. I recommend it, companies are bullshit.
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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 22h ago
On the one hand it's a bit sad there isn't more to it. On the other hand part of me really likes the sense of stability that 50 years in one job represents.
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u/whydonlinre 21h ago
is there some expectation of something for staying at a company for a long time? They dont care about u and u dont care about them. Its a transaction, all i expect is my pay and benefits agreed upon, thats it.
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u/ReadyYak1 1d ago
Idk I don’t think it’s that sad. Unless you have your own company, most of us are pretty replaceable at work and we don’t get big recognition for staying at the same company. Not everyone ends up being a lawyer or doctor or scientist, most people just find a job that is stable and meets their needs and stick with it. Dude seems pretty content, and maybe he excels in other areas of life and his career isn’t a focus. I don’t think we should be shaming him for being a convenience store worker 🤷
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u/1track_mind 1d ago
I've been at my job 20+ years I don't expect nothing but what I earned when I leave this place. I don't understand people who expect more
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u/spuff42 1d ago
We expect more because we were promised more. My entire childhood I was told that hard work meant a raise. That if we busted our ass, and the company made a profit, we would get a cut in the form of bonuses. Thats all been thrown out the window because "shareholders expect more". To get a thank you email after that long is a slap in the facw
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u/1track_mind 1d ago
Wouldn't be a slap to me , because I don't expect anything but the pay and time I've a earned. I honestly don't care if they know my name
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u/East-Adhesiveness-72 1d ago
Capitalism will chew us up, spit us out, and then cry that it's still hungry
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u/GuacamoleFrejole 1d ago
He spent 50 years working at 7/11? Some people are afraid of change, I guess.
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u/Imaginary_Dig_5014 1d ago
Bro might have started as a stocker and is now the store manager (or even a district manager)for all we know from the context of this video.
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u/GloomyLingonberry509 1d ago
Nothing says “worth it” like a generic smiling picture of some CEO you’ve never met.