Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

My manager / Director has told me to NEVER ever book bench hours, always book a few hours for this or that. Nothing that will make a paying customer aware, but enough to cover yourself.

That same manager / Director won't let me help a past account because I still know what was implemented and why. But I help anyway and book only 10% of the hours I work on that account so he doesn't have a fit.

My believe I am here at DXC to help my collegaes no matter what management tells me, if thy don't like it they can fire me... Don't care as I saved enough for retirement and old enough , just waiting till my wife is ready for retirement.

The company is a joke. They want 20 things done but cannot decide which one, so achieve none of them. Meanwhile my day is so interleaved sometimes that nothing actually gets done between going to meetings where nothing is decided. Totally given up, that's what they want - just keep paying me to log in!

I'm booking "general attendance" at the moment. Not a peep out of my new manager. (Got a new manager 2 weeks ago and wasn't informed lol). Happy to sit here, typing this and getting paid to do literally nothing at work. It's great!

The malaise of the company isn't limited to the staff, it goes way up the chain. The managers want to see it fall apart just as much as many of the staff do. Oh well some project manager didn't get the WBS renewed in time. I'll let half the team go in that case because basically that's what they want anyway. Stuff what it does to the company. The general managers are also on 0% rises so why should they bust a gut, and when all their staff are gone, they can get redundancy themselves.

if your on the bench your not redundant, you are just not needed and should have been let go without severance weeks ago !

If you’re in the bench you should be gone already. If DXC can’t find a place for you , then your worthless!

@vtr+1tjws69t and @1xtj+1tjws69t I could write something about this now, but that would violate thelayoff.com rules, as this is internal company business.

The problems you mentioned are all home-made. The managers (I can only speak from my point of view) have long ago stopped giving the impression that they are protecting their team members, but are now only carrying out administrative tasks, which consist of conducting the half-yearly meetings.

This leads to a climate of mistrust among employees, perhaps also a climate of fear: What happens if I tell my manager that I only have 50% work per day? Will I end up on the layoff list? Or will my manager do everything in his power to get me into projects?

I don't get the impression that the managers do the latter. Is that because they no longer have time for it because their teams are getting bigger and bigger? Is it because DXC doesn't have a system where team managers can enter "I have someone here with these skills who can be used 20 hours a week" and where project managers can search "Is there anyone in this company with these skills?"

Team managers have to manage their teams properly, and that includes placing them in projects.

DXC has to understand that employees can sometimes only be 50% busy for a few months. After a certain period of time, the manager would have to answer questions, he would have to prove that he did everything he could to place the person in a project, and he would have to be able to explain why it didn't work. And if he can't do that, then he can't be a manager! I think if DXC were to do a real anonymous survey on how busy the employees in real, the results would be shocking.

At the moment, everyone is trying to have 100% capacity on paper so that they don't end up on the layoff list, even if they're only actually working 50%. And when someone looks for support, all they see is "Oh, they're already working 100%, they can't do any more." It's an absolutely stupid system.

@OP:
Where is this coming from?

I didn't think DXC had a bench and that's why one of the reasons we keep losing work, everyone is already maxed out and over committed.

flipping hope so! I want out..

Correction: I wish that was true

Where did you hear this from? Inwigh that was true.

How do we have people on the bench for 3 months? There is so much work to do on active accounts that smart folks have no time for anything but work. What areas have so little work then can sit idle for 3 months? Their leaders and area owners should be fired yesterday.

3 months on bench, they’re doing anything and everything to make sure people are billable.

The sad part is some people haven’t done any serious work for yrs, but the ones who are in between projects will get caught up in the cross fire.