this is the latest in the drama series
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Heard some of the Americas IGMs are next after KP. ML seems to have made up his mind on the ones KP brought in as being expendable.
At this time, anyone perceived as being close to KP is clearly at risk. Which means all the folks he brought in.
@VzATb8R-5yea: don't you realise that the beatings will continue until morale improves?
Oh btw ML will soon declare a 50 hour week as the modis operandi and employees will only be paid for 40 hours.Employees will be obliged to donate the remaining 10 hours to the ML retirement fund and anyone who does not comply with that directive will need to work an additional 10 hours per week at no cost for being whinging twats.
If they get rid of all the contigent labor by Christmas as per the current plan, who is going to actually deliver services to the clients? There is no way they can be replaced by new recruits.
Who's JP?
JP didnt quit he was fired!
I am sure Lawrie wanted to leave the ship on an earlier high. After all, he did manage to initially turn this Oil tanker "Don't Xpect Competence" some 45 degrees to the north, in order to avoid those pesky 'cross-winds'
He had hoped his minions could improve the tanker's speed by removing excess weight, such as flex, insurance and pay rises. Significant weight was reduced by pushing crew overboard.
However, those icy crosswinds eventually slowed the tanker's inertia; currency levels did what currency levels do in these situations and started to fluctuate and the ship lost some legacy cargo and other write offs.
The tanker then made a fatal mistake where it moored off the coast of HP and overnight, 60,000 people snook on board, dressed in uniform with the same roles as crew already onboard. The tanker's hull fell another 3 feet with the combined weight of duplicate staff.
Upon leaving dock, the tanker hit an HP defecit bouy which left a gaping hole on the finance deck which took a year to repair on the quiet. To reduce the combined weight it was decided to spend 6 months throwing more crew into the sea.
Captain ML offered his assistance by firing some of his own senior staff, on the hour, every hour until one of them agreed with him. This was a necessary step in order to deflect attention from either his own ability to pick the right crew in the first place, or to offer them as the sacraficial lambs to hide the fact they were all utterly lost at sea and unable to respond to changing conditions.
Oh and the compass was broke.
New senior staff were quickly appointed with the slogan "Our goals remains unchanged..." which was reassuring, as that compass wasn't about to fix itself.
The ship surprisingly missed all of the the icebergs but with only a skeleton staff and a nautical wheel driven by a remote app in Chennai, the ship eventually rusted at sea and the remaining crew were found dead, having perished through mal-nurishment, de-hydration and working 50 hour weeks, according to the ship's TES. There was but a single graduate remaining in the crows nest who was still asking "Are we there yet?"
The DXC hull was broken up and sold for sc-ap. The captain? No-one knows. ML had refused to go down with his ship and was last seen on a speedboat heading west at 20 knots, clutching what the sole surviving graduate called "A big shiny treasure chest."
A public enquiry was later requested by the tanker's shareholders who wondered why their dividends had stopped flowing and if such tankers required a crew anyway?
The numbers in the states must be really bad. We are probably way off the revenue targets Lawrie and Saleh have committed to and they have lashed out at a guy who's barely been in the job 5 minutes! We all know who is really to blame for the continuing decline at DXC - the same guy who shrunk CSC revenues year on year from the day he took control!
He was fired. No two ways about it. He had six months on the job.
M.L. may only "cut & shrink revenues" but he is a multi-millionaire. He is no fool but a greedy man with no scruples. I mean, how sad does your life have to be when at the age he is and having more than enough money to leave all this behind, that he keeps going? Gathering up the dollars! At least we can be content that his wealth obviously does not bring him happiness. He is a corporate junkie. He get's high on the power he has. I am quite sure his personal life, outside the corporate bullsh@t , completely s---s. He knows nothing else. This is the mold for these multinational CEOs. They are, at the end of the day, very sad characters.
What did the email say?
Americas numbers are bad and Lawrie needs a scapegoat. After less than 12 months in the job it can't be KPs fault! DXC's revolving door approach to executive leaders continues. The UK are on their 5th leader in as many years, the US isn't far behind now! Everyone apart from the man himself realises that Mike Lawrie cannot grow a business. He can only cut & shrink revenues.
Email reads to me like he was pushed out? Couldnt have been with the company for more than 5 months?