My fellow DXC grunts, it’s been 6 months since the unholy borg of CSC and HPE-ES. Has anything changed for you besides a new lanyard, pass and email address? Personally I’ve not had even one interaction with someone from the other half of the new org. What is likely to happen in the next 6 months? (besides more layoffs)
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Frogman where are you? Great post.
No changes at all, email address is still officially csc.com . no new lanyard.
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Nefkins is the biggest a-- clown on the planet.
Seems a common experience. I too went in March and went contracting. Among my new colleagues are four ex EDS and two other ex HPE engineers and PMS. All of us pushed out at some point. All of us better off now.
Having been WFR'd 6 months ago and working for a competitor I got a 25% pay rise, more regular hours, less stress and no freakin Spartans training to do. It's a totally different world outside of DXC.
I highly recommend you include penalty payments in the contract with DXC for non-delivery and nail those SLA's with strict controls. DXC do pay out on these, even when they miss the very first contracted payment milestone, which I've known occur on a few new contracts, due to lack of skills.
Plus you're buying into an org with little history at the moment, having been assembled from two over-resourced, but under-skilled money-losing companies.
Ensure your reporting schedule demands monthly reports and metrics on all contracted services. I know this is bread and butter, but you'd be surprised how delayed and late some of these basic things can be these days.
Ensure all failures and actions are progressed and tracked by your assigned account manager and don't be afraid to raise formal complaints to your Account Manager. Keep everything in writing.
Of course our oldest clients have learned the hard way not to give ALL of its services to DXC, but to break it down into framework agreements and reduce their risk by farming out work across other IT service providers.
Ensure all your requirements are explicit with no room for ambiguity over what, when, how, why and rules for service credits, which should be nailed down tight by legal.
If you are a large blue chip multi-country client, then you need to see strong references from clients in your sector first. If you're an SME, then I think you're going to find DXC to be too costly and not as nimble as you'd like them to be. You're going to get stuck with an account manager who will try their best, but are ultimately powerless during DXC's Business Transformation that could take another 2 years before it knows what it's doing.
@Pzn2YQY-mgn Know that the company will demand and constantly nag you to pay them in less than 30 days and it pays all vendors at 90 days minimum.
Nail service agreements down tight and monitor contracts like a dam hawk. Dix will skirt the truth and cut corners at every opportunity skating on thin ice that could be construed as breach of contract. This company is in business to make short term cash and then sell the scraps.
@Pzn2YQY-mgn I'd love to hear why your company is considering DXC if it knows about the turmoil that's currently taking place. If they don't, I strongly suggest you direct them to resources that will give them the overall picture of the company -- not just the one DXC salespeople are painting.
Make sure your company knows that DXC is working on transforming into a near-maximum offshore company with any American or European labor being inexperienced and cheap.
Are you guys serious about this? My company is considering DXC for many of their IT business aspects and we are in danger. I really hope are executives are seeing reviews like this or we are in BIG trouble. How do you even provide good service to the customer when you constantly have the issues you are all describing?
6 months on with HPE, but years on with Fruition and xchanging and they're still asking too. Those with the skills of Business Transformation have long gone. So, Ironically what you have are more silo's that the op. Model was supposed to address.
It always make me laugh when I read the DXC service offerings of scale-ability, agility and rapid change and they can't even sort themselves out.
But this is huge case study and will be used on training courses in years to come or one of those click-bait photos at the bottom of web pages: Top 10 things not to do when transforming your business.
This mess is an academic project waiting to happen. White papers, case studies, next wave thought experiments.
New lanyard?
Mike Lawrie and Mike Nefkens and Paul Saleh will get rich. Nothing else. And nothing else matters to those guys anyhow.
Less morale, less people, less market share, less competency, less pay and benefits, less Pontiac taxes, less of everything. Lack of communication: where employees actually find out about decisions made after they have been implemented. Indirect communication: sending messages through others. Great job Mikey. Withholding information are we moving to a new building?
Giving misleading information. Everything is peachy says Mikey. But you have a new building. Company’s policies and procedures are not followed, chaos, inconsistency, and poor quality follow. Customers, vendors, and employees wind up hating having to deal with the company and its staff because of the frustration experienced. The hallmark characteristic of a DXC toxic leader is their NARCISSIM. They are “all about” themselves. They view themselves as categorically brighter and more talented than anyone else around. As a result, they believe they are deserving of special treatment–the rules that apply to everyone else really are beneath them. Emotionally, they become more discouraged, which eventually can lead to depression, frustration, constipation and revelation.. For some, they are more irritable, “touchy”, and demonstrate problems managing their anger. Others experience anxiety and a general sense of dread when they think about work.
Finally, you know your work is affecting you negatively when your friends and family start to make comments on “how you’ve changed”, or “you seem stressed” and “maybe you need to talk to someone.” Many of the good people I was in touch with are mum. They don't say a word to connect to past friends. When your personal relationships are impacted, it is time to take a serious look at what is going on.
Work is demanding even at DXC. But some workplaces move beyond the stress that accompanies normal jobs and workloads to being so negative, demanding, and unhealthy, employees eventually begin to ask themselves, “How much longer can I stand this?” For your own good, take a close look and answer the question. Glad i am out of the freaking corporate world. It's cut throat and dangerous with all those backstabbers out to get you. If i do my homework i could invest in a stock and make a gain three times as much as i was paid on a monthly basis. Any finance folks out there should use there god given talents and make a go of it on there own. Wish I done that earlier. GLTA.
I should write a book on all my adventures at EDS, HP, HPE, DXC and the unemployment line.