Rated a 1 yet again with no raise. Where is there an incentive to stay? The 2 person management structure will ultimately ki-l this company. DXC is bursting with middle management eager to tell everyone how to do something but spends their days on meaningless conference calls. For these reasons, I'm out.
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I had ‘1’ each year that I was employed by DXC. For me, this meant:
- my contracted bonus should have been paid, but wasn’t
- no pay rises to keep up with inflation
So I asked my management what the ‘1’ was really doing for me. The answer: making me a bit safer from the next round of WFR!
I no longer work for DXC, and have moved to somewhere with a much more positive corporate culture.
The herd of immoral mo--ns are simply incompetent if they ask to be 120% billable to give a promotion or salary increase.
The sign of a poor company and an irresponsible Manager asking ( or condoning) their staff to exceed Utilization of 120%). What a sh1tshow that place has become.
Past few years I have got 1 & 2’s. This year I got a 3. I got no pay increases for any of these. I asked my manager what I needed to do to get a 1. He told me at least 20% over my contracted hours. Yeah ok, I think my days of 1 & 2s are now gone. No incentive at all.
"Simplify DXC" - an initiative that ironically added to the existing complexity.
Most meetings should be 30 mins max. DXC use them as endless talking shops with no planned expectation or outcome and most of them could be (and should be) avoided. It is a real inhibitor to productivity, as most decision can be agreed in a quick call or email (or worst) a 10 min meeting. If the host invites a cast of 1000 to a meeting without any key decision makers, then it can go on 30% over the allotted time, usually to moan about the people who didn't turn up who could have taken a decision.
As for getting a "1", you are part of the elite 5% of your group that is statistically allowed to have a "1" and means you are doing more than the role expects or, more precisely, more than the rest of the people in your team (who have wisely learned not to bother).
Increases are targeted at those operating in the top left quadrant 'Exceeds contribution' + 'is =5%' whereby a compensation of zero is given which coupled with forecast consumer price inflation and energy companies about to increase their tariffs and god knows what other Covid taxes are likely to surface to stifle economic growth - giving you an effective pay cut.
If your rated 1 and didnt get an increase it means your past the mid point of your job grade.
The middle management - those that hold meetings about a meeting because there's so many layers of them. Both cross layers don't know who is responsible for what.
They actually stop you delivering to the end customer if it doesn't fit in their tower model.
If its another towers problem its not a company issue. You have to do to justify to endless managers, and fill out paperworks to get authorised. I'm amazed they find the time to do all these authorizations. Some even go as far as inventing tasks which are contrary to the existing policies, and even if you tell them that it's not in the policy they will insist you do what they say. It's only when someone high up questions their new made up processes they backtrack.
Can't this overhead be automated? Surely we have robot technology that can tick boxes.
Hopefully the "Simplify DXC" will remove this 2 person multi layer unnecessary unit.