The next round of layoff is round the corner, those with a stalled rating will be asked to leave within a week.
Based on FPR rating the next round of layoffs will happen.
Secure yourself, secure your family in this uncertain future.
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@apdg, I am a woman, but I am not underpaid in my role. I got a raise last year and my salary is very nice, but yes, I did not get a raise this year. That being said, I don't feel any particular loyalty to DXC and have been weighing my options at moving along. At age 58, you have to be a little careful about that. Luckily, I am known in my IT industry area. Unluckily, its sort of a niche IT area, so it's tricky.
-8esz If you are 58 and got an exceed I am guessing you are WAY underpaid and/or a minority (especially being a woman). The BU you work within didnt make it's goals and therefore no raise, is a common excuse. If you do get a raise it is most likely to protect them from a lawsuit for pay inequality.
Before I was WFR'd last year my rating was "meets expectations" and then I was WFR'd ... the best thing that ever happened. Mind you I am older than 40 and was eligible for another week's pay at DXC's expense.
"If you are over the age of 40 you will receive an FPR rating of "meets most expectations" no matter how you have performed."
Totally untrue. I'm 58 and received "Exceeds".
I've never heard of anyone in DXC getting that kind of salary increase (apart from graduates). Good for you! You are obviously a key employee who they cannot afford to lose. Hey DXC might not be the the sh@t hole we all think it is. There is hope!
There is so much generalisation going on in this post. I seem to be a living contradiction of most of it. I am 58 years old and received a 'meets all expectations, exceeds some' rating, in a face to fae meeeting. I got a 4.5% salary uplift along with that. I am not a manager, but an individual contributor in Australia. I work in a business unit about 250 people in size and we may have let 10 people go on wfr in the last 12 months.
I'm confused @Trc9Frl-qsr there are 4 ratings not 3, unless of course we work for different DXCs. Don't ask me what the 4 ratings mean, I don't know or care, neither does my boss he just gave us a number. Pointless FPR box ticked for another year.
@Trc9Frl-1mxk - aka: BullCrap
Well, enjoy your fantastic bonus and salary increase! LMFAO :)
6 months ago corporate asked us to post our resumes along with our job descriptions. A month or two after that we were asked to fill out our own review. After that they informed us we would be meeting with manager for a formal review even if it wasn't anywhere near the date of your annual review. Got suspicious that corporate was going be laying off. First week of reviews started and someone was let go. A couple days after that I was let go. Weekly you get an email of people who no longer work at DXC. Either they got laid off, fired or left the company. Not a word is allowed to be spoken about these "disappearances." It was sad to hear what a great company that Hewlett Packard "used to be." Every month we were getting fluffed up emails disguised as what "great" changes they are making for employees. After acquiring weeks of vacation, we all came in one day to find they had wiped out our vacation time and went on this great new benefit of having "flex vacation " Take all the vacation you need. Sounds great, huh? Well the catch was only with the "approval" of your manager. So all of the favored employees were given vacation time but when others asked you got ignored or a flat no! Grass is rarely greener on the other side but with low morale, taking more out of your paycheck, and being looked down on for taking a 20 minute lunch and not working through your lunch hour, I know I will find much better place of employment.
If you "meets expectations" that rating may be good or it may be bad. It just means you met what your manager thought you would do. For me "exceed expectations" is very hard to do, because my manager expects that I will do better than the average Joe. So when I do what they expected I get "meets expectations"
The rating method is flawed. But either way we wont see a dime no matter what review we got, unless were VP's or above. Why pay us anymore, the job market isn't that great in the US and its still an employers market.
Supply and demand..,. When there are more jobs than people to fill them , then pay will go up to keep or hire new people. I want a raise and could use it because prices keep going up , but don't expect one.
This is totally a UNTRUE statement "If you are over the age of 40 you will receive an FPR rating of "meets most expectations" no matter how you have performed" I am over 55 and my review say's "Meets All and Exceeds Some Expectations"
You can quietly prepare now.
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DXC don't give a flying f@@k if it is legal or not. In the UK, if you are made redundant and you use a lawyer to claim "unfair dismissal", DXC will settle out of court and bung you a few thousand quid to shut up and go away with a legally binding clause that you will not divulge the settlement figure or the fact that their actions were illegal.
If you are over the age of 40 you will receive an FPR rating of "meets most expectations" no matter how you have performed. If you ask your manager what expectations you didn't actually meet you will not be given an answer because they have been instructed to give everyone over the age of 40 this rating. DXC want rid of all employees who are past the age of 40. They will use this FPR rating to make you redundant in the very near future. This smoke and mirrors frankenfirm company are loathsome and despicable. My advice is to get out as soon as you can with the best package possible. There are companies out there who still value good talent and accumulated skills and will reward you for the work you do.
DXC is a Failure. The clients know it . The staff know it . Above all else , never ever let this company define who "YOU" are. As a veteran employee with over 30 years of experience , all I can say is honor and integrity is not just absent , but extinct from this corporation. what ever value it has had in the past , remains there .
The manager has skipped the performance review because they knew the answer already. They are just trying to remove the paperwork. So legally, the WFR can't be about performance can it, as no documented reasons have been given and no right to reply offered to you?
ALL DXC layoffs are FPR based. Always have been. Anyone with a functioning brain stem has known that DXC was created of, by, and for the bottom of the employment barrel. Thus an “exceeds” rating at DXC correlates directly to an in-hire rating at any reputable company. I is all rather easy to understand once you accept this truth.
One of my friends told me that usually the performance reviews are conducted as telephone conversations, but be aware that if your manager decides to provide the review in person then it may not end up how you expect. My friend says that manager ignored the performance review and proceeded to announce that my friend is being WFR'd and will be out of DXC very shortly. Very unfair and bordering on unethical. My frend's rating was "meets expectations".
I am told that out of the 3 possible ratings - absolutely nobody in DXC will be provided the top rating, which is a sure way to eliminate a lot of people in the "does not meet expectations" category. Oh perhaps Mikey will be the only one that exceeds expectations.
Not even sure that is legal...
Certainly in the UK, it is the role and not the person doing the role that becomes redundant so performance would not be a major selection factor. This has Unfair Dismissal written all over it...