If Lawrie says your region isn’t performing as well as he expects it’s a definite sign of WFR’s. You should have zero doubt about this.
People in the UK know this very well. From the CSC days when he firstcame, every single year, sometimes every 3 months but mostly it was on 6 month cycles we would go through a big WFR.
Now we barely have any staff left in legacy CSC and instead those lost roles have been filled by legacy HPE staff. Which makes me wonder that perhaps HPE were not cut to the bone in their old organisation.
I’m 90% sure that cuts are coming this quarter, this isn’t speculation or scare mongering. In the legacy CSC side there was some last quarter. But given that they have minimal staff left on accounts, the cuts are usually in the 10’s, at the most circa 100, that’s why you don’t get to hear about it.
Also this is the first year where UK has won any new business so hopefully that growth will be offset against losses elsewhere.
There is no logic to the cuts, anyone is game. A new bout of apprentice interviews took place a few weeks ago, that basically means your on borrowed time in my books.
Busting a gut doesn’t keep you in a job, looking after your interests is what generally keeps you in employment. Do training, do on line courses. Learn new sh--, invest in your self and your family. When the time comes it’s having that positive mindset which will help you move on. If you neglect everything in the hope of keeping your job, when they get rid of you it’s that much harder to accept it and move on. By that time your self esteem has gone, you have becomes a miserable b--tard and your wife and kids hate you.
If your over worked, working harder isn’t the answer. Let it fail, spread the pain. Only then they will realise.