It's all very simple. While the company fail to reward and respect it's technical staff. Most of those staff don't really care what they do or don't do and certainly have no passion for delivering a service. The company hires new people, who also cannot get anything done as nobody will show someone on 20% more how to do the job. Those people quickly leave after having achieved very little.
13 replies (most recent on top)
@2dox+1u8sufuU It's not just age - it's DXC. The company has a reputation for being behind the times. I tried to get a job but the feedback was - it doesn't sound like you actually achieve a lot, and what you do achieve is for anyone but DXC.
Of course a 25 year old has way more passion for the proposed role and will agree to do anything, anywhere at any time for any money just to get the job. They have no ties, and don't have 20 years of DXC bad practice to unpick. So it's a no brainer.
Like most other employers DXC wants a young demographic, and it's clearly set on starving everyone else out. What they have not bargained on is, they couldn't deliver a cup of tea with the team they have - so on that basis you would have to be pretty cr-p not to keep the role - just take the money.
@2dox+1u8sufuU,
Same here. I am 61 and desperate to get away from being TUPEd into Dixie.
I have applied for many jobs and been turned down for various reasons. No body will say it is because of my age.
Some I don't even get an acknowledgement of my application.
8 years with no pay rise. Working in the UK. Reason why I have not moved? Cause can’t get another job now I am over 50 and I am not well connected so can’t get a senior role either. Age discrimination is real for sure. No one says it but it is what it is. Look at LinkedIn, almost every job has over 100 applicants. No chance. It is impossible. Who’s going to hire me knowing they can get a younger person? It is what it is.
2021,20% raise but it had to be given due to promotion. So after a raise I got lowest level of salary attached to position. Next two years I was said that next raise in next fiscal year. I was stupid enough to believe to those declarations.
7 years and counting!
1% a number of years ago.
2021 about 4.5%. in 2010 less than 1%
Every other company in my 49+ years in IT I hit at least 7% each year
Two weeks back, Promotion plus hike
1% in 2020 and before that it was 2010
2% 2015 -- On the basis inflation has been running an average of 4% over that time frame. I, and many others feel quite justified in doing around 40% less every week than I used to. Some colleagues only bill 3 or 4 days a week. The rest goes to fluff codes. I still do more than they do. Just think what I could achieve if I felt valued instead of trying to prop up my salary with a second job and doing things myself rather than just getting someone in.
Yesterday
Started at HP in 2014, first and last raise was a 0.9% "market adjustment" in late 2020.