Another 29 year veteran here, just resigned. DXC = no future !
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I've just pushed the eject button and resigned. I cannot take the bull and replication of paperwork for anything that you do any more.
They have su-ked the will to live, my get up and go, and morale completely out of me.
I feel like an empty shell and mentally drained.
I am UK based.
Read your contract... Its just redundancy maybe with a tiny handful on top sometimes. Don't think they are currently offering anything on top though.
How do you find out the VR terms prior to making a request?
So where did you originally come from ?
if you’re really just resigned, then at least give the department and country you were working in. They can’t do anything to you. You’re already are not working for him.
Managers won't let you go because they aren't allowed to backfill and they aren't allowed to sign off on VR (that's done by a HR spreadsheet)
Please don't imagine that anyone in the middle is actually any more empowered than the plebs...
Managers won't let you go just because you want out. They want their little empires, and with there being no reward for success in DXC. They seem to get off on how miserable they can make their employees. The top brass however do want you out, but know they can achieve that by giving the packages out to people who won't cost so much, and then making the life of everyone else a total misery until they just quit.
A plan that might work is to under bill chargeable projects. When you're not making enough money for the company maybe the AI will decide it is actually cheaper to let you go after all.
Hey! @v8+1jmn2e367 I'm in that age bracket and my manager knows only too full well I would happily jump at VR if offered, that's been understood for years, but no sign of any VR at the moment. How & where?
Senior DXC leaders based in Europe are desperate to remove the over 58s in the UK, but its now a mexican standoff of greed vs the old, and demotivated.
@v2+1jmn2e367 The problem with TUPE, is that your current pitiful pay is also transferred. You won't be getting an instant pay rise. Although being free from DXC bureaucracy and its toxic working environment is worth thousands. We all dream of the day when the client finally realise they can do it cheaper in-house by cutting out all that management, and directly incentivising us to finish the job on time.
There's one other option for some. I was TUPE-ed into DXC 6 years ago. It was supposed to be a 5 year contract but is at least out for other suppliers to bid on now. So I'm hoping to get TUPE-ed out again.
@tj+1jmn2e367 Having been in DXC many years. Where the rhetoric is your not worth it, you'll never get another job, and unlikely to keep this one long. Yet I'm still here!! It can hardly come as a surprise when one of us decides enough is enough. So I've been saving so that all the stress amounts to something - and decided some time back that leaving early would be preferable. The other point to note is that DXC redundancy is capped. You'll not get as much as you think, in the grand scheme of things - it's hardly worth having. Everyone should aim for a full state pension, but whether it or we will still exist by the ever increasing qualifying age is less certain.
The company now has way too many people like me and you who have basically decided we don't need another job so why bother with this one, and could leave tomorrow and won't need a reference. It's clear there will be no gold watch or even a thank you for your service on all past experience. If you can afford it - the best time to leave is the Spring then there's plenty to do outside to keep you occupied and active and within a month you'll probably ask yourself why you didn't do this a couple of years back.
There is one foolproof way to get WFR in the UK.
Write "constructive criticism" on teams chat about senior DXC leaders in Europe.
Sympathise with victims of poor management behaviour, dispair at examples of narcissism and talk about how your superiors, are treated by own their superiors i.e. Belittle your boss under the guise of caring about them
Eventually this will filter up and you will be disposed of.
it makes no difference to you getting a pay rise anyway....
News for UK peeps near retirement and thinking of leaving (only)....
The following might change your mind about how long you have to stick the mental torture..... Check your UK gov. pension entitlement.
When you look at the info, the number of "full NI" years is misleading because the hidden "contracted out" years could reduce the total below the 35 year target.
tip The only way you can confirm you'll get maximum pension, is by looking at your predicted pension value - It has to be same as the maximum total.
Don't just look at the "Full NI" years and assume
helps for decision making, no?
You're out by 10 in both years and basic, start in 88, basic 60k. Which is why DXC is in such a mess and the recent employee survey results make it very clear
"because it is cheaper for me to head into retirement and pension? Really?"
its done to shed workers - nothing more to see here
Hang on. I don’t get this. Someone educate me on this. Let’s say I started in 1998 and I am on £70K basic. So if I file for VR, are you saying that they will not give me £70K for VR because it is cheaper for me to head into retirement and pension? Really?
@d7+1jmn2e367 this id--t Brocklehurst is dragging the whole company down. The prat stopped us doing some ooh work which in the end cost a lot more resources to resolve afterwards. The guy operates at penny level, micromanagement.
Most staff left in DXC are well into thier 50s. Having been told you're no good. Don't deserve a pay rise, and will probably be let go soon enough. We've been saving every penny ready for this day. It's still not arrived. Might just quit and go. There is no redundancy the game is bore everyone or bully them out the door. Can't stand another year of this sh-t.
If you get a package, you should eject. The world outside is pretty good. Don't get burned out in dxc
The problem with VR is they know some folk are near retirement age so its cheaper to make them hang on rather than paying out a year's worth of wages
OP here, refused VR multiple times over the last 14 months and didn't see that changing so just resigned for my mental health and a better future.
Good on you OP.
I want to go but I am hanging on for WFR. The bar stewards can pay me to leave.
I offered to go on VR last December buy they turned me down.
The way I feel I couldn't care less whether I can get another job or not. This S*** hole of a company has taken all will and hope away from me.
I think I've pretty much decided to go as well. But not decided what to do. So haven't told them. But people who have left mentally don't get much done. Thing is. I'm surrounded by incompetence so nobody seems to have noticed.