I am seeing people post they were laid off in the past few days, but it seems to be only a handful of people. Anybody knows what's going on? Is this DXC's attempt to avoid WARN notices? So they'll keep laying off a few people every day for who knows how long? Any info would be appreciated.
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Hard A$$ is a troll. Just ignore him.
Hard A$$ stated "my uninterrupted career has spanned portions or all of five decades".. leave your comfort zone and try to find another job.. better yet if you could even get an interview after managed to survive at this organization for so long.. I will bet 100k that you will not even get a call for interview!? I joined the "big 4" consulting after getting WFR from this organization. I will be happy to entertain your job submission to learn more about how talented you are if you are up to the challenge?
It's your arrogance that people find offensive. And your opinion that there are only three reasons why somebody could be let go.
Well said! And not one ounce of responsibility is placed on this company, the people who lead it or it's shareholders! Hard A-- adopts the typical attitude of the establishment Plutocrat, blame the little people! I'm guessing he's writing from the good old USA, the country where millions upon millions of people have little or no health care! I bet this person has never given a rats arse about anyone but himself and his nearest and dearest!
Shameful individual!
It's your arrogance that people find offensive. And your opinion that there are only three reasons why somebody could be let go. In my case I was let go because I reported an ethics violation on a partner sharing employee personal financial information including social security numbers, salary history and drivers license information to an entire development team. Congratulations on your interrupted career, for others character and personal ethics take a higher priority.
Wow. I'm not feeling the love here. Seems most of you have substandard reading comprehension skills. If you read my post I stated, "3) your skill set is no longer necessary to increase shareholder value. I suspect #3 is applicable in most cases". But no; you focus on the comedic portion of the post and run with assumptions. And just to clarify, I am an employee; I am not, nor have I ever been, in management; I am not a troll; and my uninterrupted career has spanned portions or all of five decades. So before you automatically condemn my wisdom, perhaps you should reflect on the perspective of a survivor.
Hard A-- should change his/her name to Bell End, because that's what he/she is.
Maybe you and Dumb A$$ can start your own company. Show the world that you're strong and can excel instead of trolling layoff.com. Please take the overpaid Dimple chinned one with you, he can help you with "cost takeout".
1mep, you are so right!!!!
I picked up on this comment from Hard A$$ in another thread: "only the weak or incompetent are 'forced to train their Asian replacements'. You seem to have missed my point: those who are strong AND excel have no need to train their replacements..."
Too bad Hard A$$ isn't a CEO, I would send my resume in a heartbeat..
People are not 'totally useless' or 'turnips' (to use your unfortunate phraseology).
Poor-performing worker were the first to go back when HR forced the management to 'find' their 15% for the lower quartile of the appraisal bell-curve. Remember that nice unethical misuse of statistics? The cuts then continued into the good workers and each time the bell curve drew towards the mean, which moved towards the 2's until 1 and beyond would no longer save you.
Of course when that nonsense was made public and could result in potential appeals and tribunals, HR were forced to deny any wrong-doing and claimed their messages were 'misinterpreted by some management' despite the secret powerpoints that were floating through the management only community at the time.
Years of cuts have removed relative poor performance. If you think you still see it, then that's your natural instinct for survival in the current environment of fear. 'Why not cut him or her, they don't do anything'. Yeah, keep it coming - stitch up a friend and win a book token.
So many reductions has cut the flesh, now they're cutting the back(bones) of the company.
But - and this is where common sense goes out of the window - they are now cutting those bringing in the revenue. Yes, you heard right - they are cutting those people who are bringing in the revenue! Why? Their cost. Apparently, 10 and 20 year experience costs money and DXC don't like cost when someone with 4 weeks knowledge of how to turn-it-off and turn-it-on-again can be purchased for the price of a happy meal.
I've seen quite a few projects go pear-shaped because the key folk were dropped and replaced with low-cost alternatives. Sure skills, but no leadership, knowledge of client business or systems.
As a result, I've seen 2 contracts, this year, cancelled by new clients. Yes, I'll say it again: 'new' clients, requesting early contract termination after only 6 months into the contract!
DXC were unable to resource the skills to meet those impressive powerpoint claims made by the salesforce and bid teams (bonused on wins. Well, not bonused any more, shall we say threatened).
A last ditch attempt to save the contract, by requesting senior sign-off to use contractors was denied and so payment milestone #1 was missed resulting in the client then requesting early contract termination for DXC's failure to honor its commitments. The cost of preparing all those winning powerpoints, establishing the setup and governance and then failing to find any skills to deliver, plus the cost of penalty payments and those costs have to be paid for by more job losses. So you seen, its a self-perpetuating spiral to the bottom and its speeding up. You can't stop it now.
This is not about experience or lack of an no-one should feel any WFR is personal in any way. This is purely cost-driven to inflate the shareprice with hot-air so they can break it up and sell if off next year if next 3 quarterly signs are that there is no pivot point in sight and horizon of growth to meeting that 26 billion gazillion revenue dream is fading.
Of course we've all lifted the hood and can quite clearly see that there is no engine in this Chevvy. But hey, keep on polishing the bodywork because I think I can see a customer whose just walked onto the forecourt.
Quick, where's that salesforce guy, the one with the nice powerpoints?
@Oz3Dly0-1bmp, I agree. Hard A$$ must be a management stooge. The ONLY reason WFRs are being pursued in large numbers is so that Mike Lawrie and his cohorts can personally enrich themselves. Period. They care nothing about "DXC" or any of its employees. And why should they? After all, even if ML doesn't hit his quarterly bonus targets, I'm sure he has a very nice golden parachute he can use to bail out, if needed. So whether "DXC" succeeds or fails is not relevant to him and won't threaten his lifestyle of luxury.
@Hard A$$ post, @Oz3Dly0-1mws: You must be all 3 and then some. If others feel the same way, feel free to vote here and tell this A$$. Who cares what you think but for others I can tell you that there is at least a 4th option that JML (known as Mikey / guy with 2 watches while showing empathy that you are losing your job / have lost job and also has 15 million more reasons as bonus if stock target is hit) and his co-hoots just don't care about customers, They never cared about the work you were doing anyway but also don't care about customers and if something blows up and is not put a Band-Aid on as you leave/are let go, well then it is your manager's issue and if s/he is not on the list, then add another name. In the mean time, @Hard A$$, go do what you do best and as your name suggests. Bless your heart.
@Oz3Dly0-1zrz - You may not be in USA. If you are being given 8 weeks notice or time to train India replacements, there is 0 severance. It is better from severance viewpoint for you if they let you go like this so you get your full severance (8 weeks max in US). If they tell you on Monday and you are gone Friday, your severance reduces by 1 week.
Heard the same about 8/11.
Winter is coming.
When someone gets laid off with no advance warning and no time to train their replacement, it suggests three possible reasons: 1) you are totally useless, or 2) you can easily be replaced by a trained turnip, or 3) your skill set is no longer necessary to increase shareholder value. I suspect #3 is applicable in most cases but unfortunately I have observed #1 and 2 on several occasions.
I don't understand how they can do the notice on Thu out on Fri thing. Many are forced to train their Indian replacements for at least a month or two in order to collect any severance. Twice a month I know of several people let go as do most of us. Would be interesting to hear what the real employee count is now. No way is it still 170k. How many times a week do you go to reach out to someone and they no longer exist?
I wish I knew what specific areas are targetted, but certainly the times where you had 2 weeks after notification, are long gone.
Which areas will get bloodied next week? Used to be you got time to close up and move on. Give people time to adjust.
Word on the street is there'll be a major WFR round in the US coming up mid August. I've been told August 11 (Friday). The word used was "bloodbath". If the rumors are true, notifications will be out that Thursday Aug 10, then off 8/11. My project WBS is supposed to be active until the end of the month, and of course that doesn't mean anything - they'll find someone else to carry it through the end if I'm hit.
The WARN Act is probably one of those "regulations" that the Trump Administration says stymies growth, so don't be surprised if DXC and other companies try to get around it.
Welcome to TheLayoff.... 'cause you're clearly new here.
What's going on now is no different from the last decade. WFR's. For more than 30 continuous quarters before I get the chop. It isn't going to stop anytime soon, the shareholders wouldn't be be happy!
would be nice to know what's going on...