Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

What is going on with the Networking work stoppage as I have 5 other projects that are being delayed? Does it include Newark and Tulsa ?

Please celebrate International women's day and post pictures in workplace and also on linkdickin.

Heck I have Dell WLAS people managing me , they are so slow in getting any work done. My project is at least 3 years late and the equipment will be end of life before we go live with one client

@8akm+1rypmgzZ That's why function managers are useless, they just talk have meeting about meetings.

Total layers which could be removed, big cost saving, improved performance.

What is the point of a meeting to ask when you're going to do something. I can either do it or I can come to meeting to discuss it. So I started not going to meetings. Nobody asks where I am. Nobody complains that I didn't attend. There's no bonus and no pay rise either way. So I'm just getting the job done. No meeting required if it's finished already!

You should only have a functional manager as they know what you do day in and day out. A people manager has no clue.

Would save a bundle , but at DXC it really doesn’t matter as you will almost NEVER get a merit pay increase. When I was making 90k , I got a $900 pay (less than 1%) increase and later on $1,200 increase (less than 4%)

Every other company I worked for I had a 8 - 15% increase every year

I quit DXC in January 2023

I’ve had two 1-2-1’s all year, one lasted 6 mins and the other 15.

I’m not complaining though.

@3ccg+1rypmgzZ Agreed people managers are generally good, they have some level of people skills.

The problem is the functional managers, they have little interpersonal skills and they build mini empires, they think they are your personal manager as well. They try and determine what you can and can't do, and anything in the grey area or beyond they would rather the company fail than the customer is looked after.

Changes to func managers would make a big improvement to the running of the company, in fact they could be removed, they are just overhead duplication.

People managers aren't the problem, if you have a good one they are worth their weight in gold and you're an id--t if you don't appreciate their value and protection they offer.
Many of the other managers are fair game, but leave the people managers alone.
The fact they are separate from your account/project/day to day work is a good thing, it means they have a sense of perspective.

They should set some goals/targets on the appraisals for managers to reduce the number of meeting like they do for P1s etc.

If a manager is holding too many meetings he needs to be pulled up.

Managers should also be tasked with reducing unnecessary overheads, tasks, duplicate reporting and bureaucracy which is crippling this company.

This will be a major step forward move in the turn around of DXC.

We should have account/project on a priority list so when you contact other teams, you can get results quickly. now it’s hit or miss if you asked for a support from the platform or whether you’re actually gonna get someone to help you or not other fu-king bullsh-t

I agree with you 100% we should get rid of people managers as people managers. Don’t have a frigging. Clue what you do day today.

The place has lost the plot. Many projects report 50%+ Project Management time. We have totally lost direction on where we are trying to achieve here. There is no incentive for people to work towards a common goal. I don't think anyone has a vision what that goal is. As fast as you try and do something useful. Someone else is trying to block it just to be proved right. The PM's don't know what they are doing they are just pen pushers. The people management don't care. They have no carrots to hand out for a job well done, as so few people left, so god help them if they start sacking people. The staff who do sod all seem to fare best as they didn't do anything so can't have made any mistakes. I hate this place, I really do. If anyone wants me, I'm doing exactly what a PM who doesn't have a clue tells me to do knowing full well the client will have changed their mind long before it needs to be delivered so I'll have wasted my time anyway.

Really? What bit of DXC you in? I have 1 manager, who I "check in" once a month with, that's it. The rest of the time, the 10 meetings a day are just with people I work with.