Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

I really do not understand the world we live in:

On one side, politics get elected with protective annoucements, with ethics raised at the top priority, and on the other side, folks like Pierre Bruno are behaving like gangsters without any issue, without being invited in Brussels European parlement, neither in Elysée, for being asked for explanations.

Why should they behave differently? They know where the rights are, and how to workaround them.

This is very unfortunate, but only bad press can make things change. Not law.

As an ex-employee of DXC Belgium I'm closely following the sh--storm that is currently happening. It sickens me to see the company reaching new depths like it's a competition.

The only advice I can give current employees is to leave, get more pay, get a better atmosphere and be treated as a human being.

I really was looking forward to come to the strike - but got the flew (bad timing!) - if my fever will go donw this evening and I am feeling a bit better I will be there!

Strike is on for friday 30/3

The under performance reason is a false excuse and threat towards the union because the country manager refuses any social negotiations!

Once upon a time I was working for a pharmaceutical company, as a young guy at my first job after university I had no idea about my rights. My father died in that year and my manager "reminded me" how important it is for me now not to lose my job, thinking about the future of my family. It's like the current story element of "personal development plans". Soon after the company was acquired by another one, I was told by a lawyer not to accept the procedure to resign from the old one and get employed by the new one. So I did that but the branch office manager found the way to sack me with another 10 colleagues due to "under performance". So I was left to go with 2 weeks of salary (that was the fee for my unused holidays). However, soon after that the managers were forced to leave the new company with the excuse of "restructuring of the new company"... Me and my colleagues found new workplaces soon after, we helped each other, gave leads and good references in case of need. The moral of the story is: you always get what you give. Being honest and fair pays off at the end. Not the company but the colleagues you are working with does matter.

A company that does not care about his colleagues has no future and will be always eaten by a bigger fish.

@Shb3xTE-5ala yes, its just about getting those headcount numbers down. Its not about non-performing employees or dead technology or lack of demand for your labour.

I'm not sure realising this makes you feel any better about your prospects of survival - it certainly didn't to me.

Just as soon as I find something else, I'm gone. Its utterly depressing to sit here watching your friends getting hosed for no reason at all and wondering when its me next.

If you ask me - they fire people on performance in Belgium even without any kind of Personal Improvement Plan. They even fire people who are in strategic technologies and with good ratings.

They need to get the people fired before the end of fiscal.

Fully agree in Belgium they fire people without respecting any social convention after sending unrealistic performance improvement plans to them ... signed or not. They just count on the fact only some of them will have the courage to go in justice.

The problem is that no body is informing the employees who are still with DXC as to what company they are really working for. It is only once they are out that they would know what a horrible company they are working for.

Social media could come to the rescue here. However dont the DXC's facebook.. that would be suicide

I wonder. I got fired on some time ago and until now did not see anything yet.

On basware I only saw a calculation of the vacation days left ( with errors in the calculation) and an overview of the salary due till the firing date.

So until now no calculation yet of the severance pay - although it was due last week.

Until now on my bankaccount I did no money at all yet - last payment was for month Feb.

Currious if the company has also some ideas to blackmail with the payments?

For what it is worth, our colleagues's dismissal has been cancelled for the time being. He is still employed by DXC.

Apart from that nobody is happy with the current situation. We employees just ask respect, adherence to the social plan and if possible negotiations for a new social plan until 2022.

And I do know that our social plans/ dismissal arrangement are higher than the legal minimum. But guess what, none of us worked only the legal minimum either....

Direct managers are kept in the dark and have no idea on who is going to be laid off next. No consultation with the business or clients. We have colleagues with customer commitments not turning to work the next day because they have been fired.

I was very disappointed when I had to leave HP Enterprise Services (I survived 3 or 4 WFR rounds), but what I hear and read now about the "new" company, I can tell you that I am very glad that I have left the company.

I miss the old Electronic Data Systems, the period where the logo was not yet round...

My Condolences to your colleague on the loss of their child. No words can explain or compensate such a loss .

In France, Pierre Bruno explained to some managers, it's not a problem to not respect the local law, because it will take long time to have DXC to go to court and having money to pay for what DXC is doing. So, it will allow the company to reach its short term objectives.

And it 's not for sure all impacted employees will go to justice !

So, for him, the risk reward is very good.

Crazy !

I don't know if this guy has some children, if yes, how he is educating them , and how he can see his face in the mirror each morning!

In my case - I got fired last week after the decission taken on the meeting with Pierre Bruno and the Belgian management. This is when the cuts started. And they will continue until end March (to be ready before the target date 31 March).

Funny as I am not working for the South but for the North cluster. My manager was not even aware and nobody had contacted him.

Personally - I am happy to be out. The other employees will be the biggest victim - they can never be sure of when the ax will be falling and their job is cut. It is really s---ing out all energy and motivation to live with this uncertainty.

From diffrent European sites, we are hearing what is happening in Belgium.

An ex CSC manager became DXC Belgium country manager. Since, he wants to re-establish the slavery and middle age practicies !

Belgium is part of European Southern Hub. Its manager is Pierre Bruno, an ex CSC France country manager well known to not understand anything to Outsourcing business and overall business mind. He is juts able to shout "I want this, I don't want that ...", but he is never able to build any plan nor strategy ! A bawler I you wish.

Southern Hub business is going to hell. A lot of contract lost, no new logo, customer satisfaction very low, and they are leaving. Pierre Bruno made some cleaning around him, and one after one, all the ex HPE-ES manager have left or are have been fired. Only one is still here, managing the sales, and I suspect he will not stay for a long time until beeing fired. But, maybe Pierre Bruno wil not fire him too fast, to be able to justify to Mike Lawrie, his catastrophic results are because of such ex HPE-ES guy !

So, back to initial mind, I explain that, because I think Pierre Bruno is making an experience with Belgium. And then he will deploy his terrorist destruction plan over the whole hub ! Because HPE-ES is bad, and CSC is good ! And this terrorist does not care about local laws !

I don' t understand Mike Lawrie about this situation. The North and Central hub is working better. They have some success and the business is better. The difference is, the ex CSC and ex HPE-ES people are working better together, and the hub manager is able to federate all the people under the DXC banner. Something Pierre Bruno is not able to do, and is not able to understand !

So, why Mike Lauwri does not fire this guy ? I know he doesn't care about people, but business is bad ! It should force him to make a decision !

I've heard Belgium employees have threat about a full strike. Don't know what will happen, but it can't continue like this. They need to defend against those stupid people.

In addition, this DXC company claims to be "TOP EMPLOYER" for 2018 - ?? for the 10th consecutive year ??- but DXC only exist for 1 year ---- REALY DISGUSTING

That's disgusting. Clearly his manager either doesn't know his employees, or wasn't aware of the pending redundancy.

This is what happens when "HR" and "managers" are so far removed from the real world. Terrible company, it has no respect for anybody.