Wasn't something supposed to happen before the end of August?
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"Make yourself expendable, pushback on all the stupid things your managers ask you to do, make yourself expendable in their eyes they will respond with reducing your workload and moving you onto unpleasant unmatched engagements to manage a soft exit"
This happened to me!
but it needed 3 managers colluding with "I don't want this person in my team".
@1kb Make yourself expendable, pushback on all the stupid things your managers ask you to do, make yourself expendable in their eyes they will respond with reducing your workload and moving you onto unpleasant unmatched engagements to manage a soft exit from you keep pressing for support keep reminding them of their responsibilities do all these and build trail of paperwork and eh voila they will stop managing you and you will end up on the bench and ultimately out of the organisation with a wedge of cash. There will be lots of times they will try to trigger just play the game without breaking policy though. You are welcome.
@1kb sadly no such setting in workday.
As I've said before on here, much as DXC would like to get rid of lots of us, if an org want the cost to come from the restructuring budget rather than their own, very strict criteria have to be met, hence the small, secret pools.
We're all waiting for the restrictions to be removed
Is there any way to make an expression of interest to the company. Or do you have to be lucky enough to find yourself in a pool? Is there any open to redundancy setting in Workday?
@ca I was the only targeted amongst my lot and I saw it coming.
@s2 can’t disclose but it was mostly targeted redundancy and i saw it coming.
Where do I sign. How do I apply. Pick me! Block my access today, collect my laptop tomorrow if it's actually of more value than the postage. And I'll be gone. It's what management want. A quiet life with no grumbling staff.
You'll know if management want you out.....
..... you are made to "help" and "train" others without a WBS and you are never given a billable code for anything else.
Never trust anyone - All management are b*stards trying to save their own skin
@yh That's the problem DXC has created for itself. They want to get rid of lots of people but the criteria on the restructuring budget are so strict only a few people qualify, so they end up not hitting their targets, and it rolls over to another quarter. Typical DXC leadership not understanding how their business works, as demonstrated by RTO (DXC will pay for RTO travel when there is no money and all travel is banned, oops), monitoring (accusing your employees of being untrustworthy is not how to boost engagement or productivity, especially coming from a group of greedy sleazy execs that no one trusts)
@yh DXC pays wherever it is. And the restructuring budget this year is $30m
Who is financing the severance if people at expensive locations are fired (Europe)? Is it local country or they are paid from the restructuration budget of 500 M$ they announced last year?
I think HR did their own redundancy first. Good luck getting anyone to reply to you.
@g4 If your paid a salary it's no excuse to be s**t on by your employer.
@r0 in which country
Got one today.
@ec ONG since the beginning of time New people were paid more, get over yourself and find another employer if you can, and IF NOT SHUT UP
@g3 unions by in large sick. At least in the U.S.
@eh You get paid a salary, don't like how you are trated then leave if you can. What a-hohes
@ae Strike its NEVER going to happen, there is no Union so you are FU-Ked
@es You are so right. I worked for CSC/DXC from 2009 to 2023 with only 2 pay increases. one was less than 1% and one was less than 4%. I worked my a-s off, 24 , 48, 72, 96 hours straight on SRT's and other such issues. On the 96 hour one I was forced by my managers to go get some sleep and let offshore ruin with the issue. In less than 6 hours they were begging me to come back to the SRT and I was stupid and did come back.
I finally got fed up with all the BS from executive management and left for another position, with more pay, more vacation time and so much less BS.
Why do you all stay, if you are good enough then finding another employer should be a easy, if your not good enough stop bi--hing and if you were afraid to start over again and have to really work, be on call then sit shut complaining as its your fault you are still with the comapny
@eh This deserves it's own thread. Let's change this site into a therapy session - I think we all need it:
After working somewhere for years, it’s hard to let go. It’s frustrating to know the useless ones never got fired, still get paid, and will probably walk away with a nice package. It’s demoralising to hear that the things you worked hard to perfect were scrapped, your scripts never run, your carefully formatted spreadsheets now a mess. They’re happy living in their own chaos. Nothing you did changed anything — in fact, it’s worse.
What matters is whether you took as much from DXC as they took from you. Did you retire early? Buy that car you always wanted? In the end, we’re all just numbers. DXC doesn’t care, your ex-colleagues don’t care. Find something else to focus on. Delete the apps, stop checking the share price. One day you’ll hear they went bust or got bought out — and it won’t matter.
It’s like grief: it takes time. But if you keep saying you’ll never get over it, you won’t. DXC failed a long time ago — it just hasn’t sunk yet.
On the day you leave DXC, be aware it takes a long time to recover.
There will be feelings of injustice and anger with a emotional numbness of the constant damp "I've been used" feelings. Then you get to process the anger of all the hard work you did which was never rewarded, and the undeserved who stayed and still do f* all.
The money doesn't make up for the layers of sh*t you've had to endure and you end up wondering how long the damage to your mental health will scab over and repair (perhaps never)
@ea DXC would rather pay some enthusiastic newby who knows nothing at market rate. Whilst they say to the rest but you didn't resign so clearly happy to stay for the money! They obviously have no way of measuring value or contribution, and translating that into salary. And can't see that those newbies quickly realise their mistake joining DXC, and soon after their probation also stop bothering and start focusing on moving on.
@bj USD30M = GBP22M = EUR25M. In the UK that would be maybe 1000 people. But it's all subject to terms and enhancements. Surely the people they want to shift are those who have been around forever but just won't move on. Those people earn less, but do less. Had the company paid them properly, maybe things would be different. But we've been promised if you work hard you'll get more, and it never happened for far too long.
Can confirm, small groups specially if you are without project. HR will provide you with option to take garden leave for 1-3 months and then 2-3 months severance or leave immediately and get it all as severance.
@bs what team/department are you in? Sorry to hear about your pool. Hope you're safe (or get a good package, if that's your preference)
@bt UK
@bs Which country are you in?
@OP It is happening now, small pools. I know, cos I'm in one.
@bj One? His own :-)
The CFO said in the earnings call he has $30m for restructuring. How many redundancies will that pay for?
@b3 Here again. Mr I left 15 years ago, but still can't get the place out of my head. Probably because you never found another job and are still bitter that all us stupid people stayed and still taking a wage with skills nobody wants, in a company nobody uses. You only have the right to complain if you still work at DXC.
It'll be like past promised pay rises. April becomes July, becomes December. Meanwhile more people just walk. Problem solved on that front. Then they do announce something and everyone else can be told to think themselves lucky to even have a job. And this is how it comes to pass that another year of 0% goes without an all out strike.
September is end of Q2, plus August holiday season so my money is it happening in September