There seems to be a lot of job adverts (on glassdoor, or the DXC site for ex.) for their security advisory services and they look to be loading up recruits for various functions in such areas. Also I see the job adverts for 'high-salary countries like Sweden, France etc. and not low-cost places. Why new hires and why not redeploy some of the laid off staff instead? I think a lot of persons who were let go have good operations skills that with some training, could naturally work in a 'security' capacity in some form or another...
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Just shows that the ageism (aka make someone redundant) filter ignores Mikey until he has hit the jackpot and nobody useful is left in DXC. I am so glad that I was WFR'd last year.
DXC's oldest employee is MIKE LAWRIE at 70 years old! Go figure that?
LOL at all you old people haters. I run a high performing team and many of those with 20+ years run circles around their peers, can problem solve complex situations faster and are less likely to jump ship. Consider yourself lucky when they are willing to invest in you and teach you.
Side note, you will be old one day as well, and possibly wise. No guarantees on the wisdom though.
Old people in IT are just that old.However, they are also overpaid and in the way of more able hungry resource.
Old people tire easily and are less flexible. Old people take longer to re-train (brains on the way to dementia) and have inflated expections of their worth. Their knowledge can be summed up in as a few easily learnt "pavlov dog" style trade secrets on out of date software.
Get out of the way, you miserable old grandad, you're making the place smell of wee...
Well, my experience is that the older people on our team have a much stronger work ethic than the younger ones. They also have more experience and know what they are doing.
They can debug and resolve issues far more quickly. They are also are much better at designing solutions because of the experience they bring to the table.
@SwoSZwD-2jlo Upvote
At last somebody who understands modern business practice.
Jump to a better job.
If pushed grab all you can.
If you stay take as much as you can and give squat back.
...follow the ways of your "betters"
Here endeth the lesson of Mikey
Made a homerun (Colditz not baseball) last year .... life goes on ...and is SOOOOO much better
To the person that said "A little different perspective.." You should be the 1st to GO, we want people who do stuff
The only growth area is Mikey's pension.
A little different perspective... if you don’t get laid off, you really don’t have to care where DXC hires other people. Secret then is to keep your job. And you accomplish this by shoveling your hard work off onto weaker minded minions. Works well for me; I don’t work here to actually do anything other than to collect a paycheck. And if you are honest with yourself (and smart) you will derive the same attitude.
I am an “old person” and probably get more done in one day than you have in the last month. Age is a number and nothing more.
The little fat man and his clueless, inexperienced girlfriend only know how to cut! They cannot grow a business and so need to keep slashing jobs whilst customers leave and quality continues to suffer.
@SwoSZwD-1suc dumbest comment I have seen on here. I have seen people get laid off and then rehired by DXC. They lay off to meet numbers and is not dependent on the person's skill. Usually the laid off person makes more money than the people that are getting hired.
"Try to think logically. Why would laid off people be rehired? They have already been deemed incompetent or useless; thus getting pushed out the door" that comment is so stupid. Are you from HR or Mikely. Most people that were WFR were good technical people , its not about how much work they did, its about sending their jobs to low cost countries to make the bottom line look better, it has nothing to do with how good or bad they were.
Who ever posted this comment is a A$$-Hole
Try to think logically. Why would laid off people be rehired? They have already been deemed incompetent or useless; thus getting pushed out the door. If they were of any value, they would have been retained. So the company doubles down on a new hire. They are usually quite a bit better than the discarded baggage they are replacing.
Old guy here. Many young employees are very smart and have strong work ethics. Glad to have them on board. But many others confuse action with results and are highly ineffective; and quite bothersome. Been here 40 years and get more work done by 5pm than most people do by noon.
@SwoSZwD-gib :What is the use, when you're still not wanted in DXC ...
Whoever wrote "keep this foolish comments for another forum - like DCX intranet" Wonderful!
I am over 45 and In work better and harder than most less than 1/2 my age. I know how to debug, how to ask the right questions, how to use vendor support.
From ElReg https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/03/capital_labor_and_ibm_ageism/
Not just IBM, all of the bodyshops - especially DXC - are guilty of the same
The idea that people who are 45+ are essentially done as capable workers when they have 20+ years of good working days left is asinine, and speaks to the culture of ageism in society.
"Because you lay off old people on high wages that do no work, and you employ young people and low wages that do a lot of work :) Simple as that really."...
SwoSZwD-muw.... I have news for you - you are actually Mikeys Sun!!! You really sound like your father with your idiotic comments.
first +45 years is not old - it will hit you sooner then you expect it.
I have never experienced that young people needed to step in for the work older people are doing. They are maybe looking more active yes, but there is a difference between being active and doing work - and as far as I remember, at the final line, if you are not finishing the work you are fired.
keep this foolish comments for another forum - like DCX intranet
They need urgently people with cyber/security knowledge as most offering are leading with security and they do not have the people with the right expertise - especially in the Microsoft / AWS areas. In addition they have finally realised that OffShore/Nearshore doesn't work certainly in EMEA where native language speakers are required, especially the likes of Germany and France. In addition most EU companies are now insisting that delivery is done out of the EU, data handling is done by EU citizens.
In my building they are recruiting a lot of people for automation roles positions, all of them outsourced, they are looking for very high skills in software development, AWS, Azure and other high end technologies, I'm not sure about how much they are being getting offered but it should be something better than what DXC is offering to their actual employees. In the last few months more than 200 contractors started to work here while employees are still being cut or running away.
All I will say to anyone considering the move is don't!
They're hiring in SAS partly to offset the huge recent attrition, and they are having to offer large salaries to attract people.
As for redeploy ingredients existing staff, it may be possible for some roles, but you cannot become an Infosec expert just by taking a few training courses; it also requires experience, which you cannot teach.
Because you lay off old people on high wages that do no work, and you employ young people and low wages that do a lot of work :) Simple as that really.