Our account was told today that all US staff, except a few designated experts, must either select WFR today or accept a future job offer with mPhasis for unknown terms. If we end up not accepting the job offer, or if mPhasis does not offer us one, we're fired without severance.
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The alternative name for mPhasis is m-Farce-is and anybody that has worked with this mob in the past will realise what a bunch of dillberries they are.
Take the WFR option without question.
I heard that mPhasis move impacts the airline account supporting SHARES (infrastructure support is not impacted). Currently those supporting Sabre and AA are not impacted.
This is the same dirty tricks HPE played with me and some 200+ other people in the fall of 2015. I was a Ciber employee because I accepted their offer rather than get laid off without severance. This policy, while perhaps marginally legal, is ethically immoral! I lost 401k benefits, had to pay more for insurance, and lost vacation time (until the Ciber policy changed). All while my work for the client didn't change and actually increased in hours. The only good thing about it was while HPE and CSC were merging, I was already cutoff so I didn't have to keep waiting for the axe. If the offer is close, take it and begin working on an exit strategy, you will be happier for it.
@1ybt I had to go google TPF. I had never heard of it. Now THAT is a niche area! And I thought COBOL was old school!
Thanks @NolaCa. I'm a senior Java person, so skills are not the the issue. Where I'm currently living is not a big tech area though. I moved here before Meg lowered the boom on remote work and managed to stay off the teleworker target shooting range. Now because of a family thing I need to look local if I can find it. I consented to the scheme while I look for another job.
Whats the big deal, take the job and insurance. And look for something else in the mean time.
I rather get paid and insurance benefits while looking for a new job. The WFR is a max of 8 weeks pay, not a whole lot of buffer money.
@funTimes - while looking for another job you can also try learning new skill (C++, Java, blockchain, etc.).
Not sure if I should say which account because I elected to consent to mPhasis while I looked for another job. I can't go a long time without a job due to a family situation, which also makes it harde to move right now if I had to.
@pqn you're talking about the Ciber debacle.
Some people were pulled out of that mess because the accounts they were on were just not having it. Then they (Ciber) amended salaries and job titles to try to fix the situation. Not sure how those workers' lives with Ciber are now but Ciber as I understood at the time was not that great of a company.
Which account is this?
Already been happening on the desktop/field services... they've all gone to some other company.
I've not seen them do what they were going to do though... which is:
Push staff out to a third party contractor agency, pay the agency to get the staff back. Staff forced to become self employed contractors (ie no paid holiday or sick or whatever) and their hourly rates reduced to allow the agency to make money. Oh and the contract with DXC is just for when DXC need you.
Are you free for two hours on Tuesday night? Yeah, we don't need you for the rest of this week.
What is your job function and account? We heard a rumor about some TPF application programmers going to mPhasis.
The answer is simple just work 30% less or 60% less
I would take the wfr without hesitation.
Awful. What line of business is this?
That is terrible! Didn't HPE try that with a group of people last year? Forced them to be outsourced to a company that would pay them something like 30% less and then turn right around and contract back to HPE? I wonder how that worked out.
My sympathies! When do you find out what the terms are?