Ever since I saw how they work in this company I only work the bare minimum. Hard work doesn't make sense, I know a lot of workaholics who were shown the door very quickly.
However, it’s funny that even though I'm working the bare minimum, I have the feeling that I’m doing a lot more than those who pretend to be busy bees and do almost nothing.
Unfortunately they have it best in this company.
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If you cannot beat them - join them. Do as little as possible. Attend as many town halls and pointless meetings as you can. Leaves very little time to do work. And if the manager gives you grief then take some time out and reach our to HR. Bullying is rife, real or imaginary, so play to it.
Only suckers and newbies bust their hump at DXC
unfortunately, I work with a lot of "spin it out" professionals. Its the norm in DXC
They types always survive WFR too
agree with @1hpu+1bfdvA2s with too many managers - pen pushers who aren't qualified / experience enough to delivery anything than baking a potato in the oven. This is the main issue with the company and a drag - especially with too many layers of management go in different directions, their own agenda's and empire's.
Mikey - simply do something productive to save this company for average foot soldier - simplify and unify processes, get rid of the various of ineffectual management before company collapses.
The incentive system discourages achievement. After years of putting in extra effort to "exceed expectations" and never getting a resulting pay increase, I cut back my efforts. Now I get "meets expectations" on my annual evaluations with the same results. If the company does not want my extra work, it's foolish to provide it.
A meeting at dxc NEVER starts on time!!. Ask for the meeting minutes, decisions taken & actions agreed. It does not exist!! The majority of “participants” are not prepared and have no idea what is discussed or at stake! IMHO All these tourists (aka useful id--ts) can be eliminated without any impact on operations or sales … on the contrary. Why is the most obvious not happening?
DXC's passion for meetings was staggering. Managers used to love filling their diaries with endless hour long meetings and claim that was "work". Do those days still continue? Seems like they do.
I recall, DXC had lots of 60 minute recurring meetings. Yes, every week and there were loads of these of which 80% would be a waste of time. Each 60 minute meeting would consume the following:
- 5 mins where someone worked out who would open the meeting as no-one else had;
- 10 mins to wait for everyone to join with some people tasked to ring the people who hadn't;
- 5 mins for the late joiners to apologise as 'my last one ran over' (this meeting = lower importance);
- 5 mins waiting for the key person to arrive ('Shall we just give it another 5 mins?");
- 5 mins to listen to someone talk about the car they are doing up;
- 5 mins to discuss if the meeting should be re-scheduled for everyone, some of the people or email;
- 5 mins for everyone to agree on availability for a proposed re-schedule date.
- 10 seconds for someone to ask what WBS they book this to. (laughter)
Since leaving DXC, I have about 1/4 of the meetings I had to attend in DXC, which is so much better for productivity and makes you day more controllable. Any meetings held now are 30 mins max. Its just a culture thing and I think it focusses the mind to get through the points you need to and get the outputs you expected. Most of the time, 20 mins is enough for a meeting.
I used to remember If you asked a DXC manager for a decision on anything, they would shy away. "Put something in my diary to discuss it" they'd say or "I am in back to back's all day" (a common DXC phrase). If you phoned them, they'd say "Can you put it in an email for me?", "But you said it was better and easier to call you, rather than waste time writing emails?", "Well, it will help to remind me". It never did..
Since the pandemic, I notice that the outlook calendar for several companies I deal with are offset by 10 mins. So if you schedule a meeting for one hour, the end time is fixed by outlook to 50 mins max (ten to the hour). ensuring that everyone has at least a 10 min break before their next. If there is a next. Presumably they must have had a lot of complaints of meeting burnout!
Very few people at DXC are productive. There are plenty of managers who attend constant meetings and never produce any output and the employees who they are supposed to manage just choose what they want to work on and whether they want to be productive.
I see a bunch of people who seem to make a career out of attending Teams meetings, yet never speak and never contribute to them. Nice work if you can get it.
Conversely I see other people and teams who are run ragged.
The difference between those two groups of people is staggering.