Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

@v2 It's like some surprise when someone actually shows up to a job they accepted 3 months ago, then another 3 months to on-board that new recruit!! By the time they are setup to work, they've already decided they aren't going to bother. All the enthusiasm has gone already. No wonder the client is looking for any way possible to exit the contract, and trying to block DXC from achieving any further mess.

The issue with backfill is that in 99% of cases you’re sent to site with very little notice to cover an emergency with no training and no proper onboarding. The person that has sent you hasn’t done their job properly by arranging log on accounts etc , the customer doesn’t allow you to go to certain places onsite as your not qualified to do so.
You sit there doing nothing because there is nobody to help/train you.
This is DXCs idea of fulfilling a contractual agreement, you’re just a b-m on a seat and of no use to the customer and you’re bored to tears.

@bd Public cloud has proven you don’t need a 30+ page document, 150 hours of a Tech Architect’s time, and a full-time project manager just to spec out a couple of virtual servers — especially when some admin still gets it wrong, doesn’t care, and it all just becomes more T&M anyway. More billable hours. More $$$ to redo it.

Meanwhile, DXC won’t train you on any of it, and they certainly won’t fund a certification — because if you actually understood it, you might be useful to the clients we serve. Instead, they quietly upskill in-house and exit the contracts, while DXC remains blind.

Now AI can generate polished business applications in seconds — the kind we used to assign teams to for months. The landscape is shifting fast. The buffers are approaching.

And yet DXC just keeps squeezing every last penny, showing no regard for its people or the future. Maybe they do see it coming — and this is their exit strategy. Have you got yours?

@ax "Outsourcing, once seen as a strategic advantage, has shown itself to be a false economy. It may reduce headline costs in the short term, but in the long run, it doesn’t save money"

It was a way of turning capex into opex plus a way of negating employment liabilities.

Funnily enough public cloud does all of this in a self service way. No paperwork, no bs, no fighting for attention from a leverage service team busy doing anything but your work.

All of those former giants of outsourcing kicked in the b@lls by a bookshop.

The modern working world has become a race to the bottom. The value of loyalty—whether from staff or customers—has been quietly discarded. We’re left with little mutual respect, no meaningful reward for staying loyal, and no real consequence for walking away.

Outsourcing, once seen as a strategic advantage, has shown itself to be a false economy. It may reduce headline costs in the short term, but in the long run, it doesn’t save money—and it certainly doesn’t help deliver better products or services.

At the heart of every modern organisation is I.T. But when core operations are handed to teams whose only incentive is to do exactly what’s asked, as slowly as possible—because that’s what generates the most profit for the least effort—we’re not building a future. We’re undermining it.

We should expect better. But our senior leadership is now so far removed from the day-to-day reality that it’s hard to believe meaningful change will ever come. It will be a slow, steady decline, as we quietly drift further from what this company could have been.

they also blamed the apprentices for stuff the senior guys were doing, like when chessy toilets got smashed up and the urinals blocked

@a3 the worst I saw was a chesterfield lad who was dumped in project factory (cloud and platform), got given no access to tools or any training, just left by himself... and they "kicked him out" dumped him in service desk for nearly 2 years where the shift managers treated him like a whipping boy

eventually he got into change management and is doing OK for himself now money wise but it took him years, nobody deserves that

other apprentices left or moved on... I just regret wasting so many years here when I could have been earning at capgemini, capita or littlefish

@OP well done lad. Dxc always use apprentices to vack fill roles on pittance wages. It's a disgusting company, and the sooner it goes bust, the better.

Glad you got out and got a proper job.