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Quest, the newly liberated Dell software division, rang in its first day as a standalone company by announcing a restructuring that included significant layoffs. The Register has now heard from multiple sources that Quest has pink-slipped employees, with top management staff shown the door and deep cuts made to marketing and …

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  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    General manager of network security unit laid off? That'll encourage potential customers.

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    1. BebopWeBop
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      Or maybe not given previous Reg story about complacency in the 'security management' management

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    Aiighhh!!!

    "also deep cuts within the marketing and sales department."

    But...but...but...

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  3. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

    Glados this is over

    "Maybe you will find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa."

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    1. TitterYeNot
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      Re: Glados this is over

      Yes, appropriate article pic from Portal.

      'Assume the party escort submission position or you will miss the party and prepare to be unresistingly reamed by the new management team.'

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  4. Steve B

    They've not changed then.

    Worked for them in QA for a very short while but I made the mistake of running my induction exercise as a proper Quality Assurance exercise against their new update. I was then laid off BECAUSE I found bugs in the "about to be released" product, where their official testing found none. Quote from personnel: "You are not employed to find bugs, you have to follow the script and it will log if there is a bug." My reply that I found over 20 product deviations was immediately countered with "We have decided you are not the sort of person we want working here" and I was not even allowed back into the office to get my coffee cup off my desk. Karma is a bitch sometimes.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: They've not changed then.

      Probably that's the sort of person they want...

      http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-09-16

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    2. TheVogon
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      Re: They've not changed then.

      I previously had lots of problems with shoddy / buggy Quest releases that caused stability issues in production. This directly cost them sales, so maybe they should revisit that approach.

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  5. Bucky 2
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    Chief Business Operations Officer

    How very DARE you.

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    1. Aladdin Sane
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      Re: Chief Business Operations Officer

      She ain't BOVVERED!

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    2 month severance?

    60 day notice is required in California. It wasn't something given out of kindness

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      Trollface

      Yeah but that's how you spin it.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: 2 month severance?

      Nope. No notice required in Ca. No severance required either. read the fine print on your next hire form.

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  7. GortonSM

    Zombied ..

    Pre-Dell, Quest had a clear, but narrow focus and future.

    Since, smothered by Dell Corp ...... and thus lost traction.

    Good luck Quest as I remember you pre-Dell days and hope you survive - post.

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  8. fredesmite
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    "help finding jobs " - that is when you tell HR to Fck off and die.

    I've heard that crock of bullshitte before ...

    The "help " is generally some clueless "consulting " firm whose sole purpose is to help you write a "eye catching " resume to post on job sites so Injun IT cesspools like IDC, GlobalLogic, and Collabra can pester you with word matching contract roles.

    This business has really gone down the crapper.

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    1. GruntyMcPugh Silver badge
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      Re: "help finding jobs " - that is when you tell HR to Fck off and die.

      "The "help " is generally some clueless "consulting " firm"

      We were given some guidance by a career guidance company as part of our severance, so I went along, it was a day out (after my last day at work, they didn't release us to go while we were still employed), but it was a bit of a sausage factory, lots of CBT courses, a forum, etc etc, almost a job in itself, given the volume of stuff they wanted us to do. I got a real job instead.

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