I cannot remember any celebration event since 2017! Do you remember one? A BBQ for the office or the project team? A team event? A family party? A breakfast basket during Covid?
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who ever posted this Celebrated thread is an id--t. That is how business was run 20+ years ago and not too much anymore. You get a pay check, health insurance, unlimited vacation in the US and you can work from home full time! What more do you ungateful people want?
Mike S
That is just stupid post during COVID. Anyway you get paid to do a job and your celebration is your lousy pay check.
BEFORE COVID nothing was celebrated in my 12.5 years with the company , except to see my name on a townhall for making 10 years :)
I received a celebratory FedEx label to send my laptop back when I resigned from the company. I celebrated with a no-expenses paid trip to the shipping center.
No I cannot remember any celebration involving me. But I do remember the last celebration of the gang: closing bell NYSE on Mon 13 Sep 2021. Do you think they paid themselves for the drinks before, during and after ringing the bell? And guess who paid the copious dishes?
But if a worker bee brings in a modest expense report with justifications, then it is blocked, rejected or sent into a maze of countless approvals over countless layers of hierarchy until one gives up.
I spent two years of my life there. OK, I wasted two years of my life.
Company celebrations? No.
Pay rises? No.
Contracted Bonus paid when I scored '1' at appraisal time? No.
But, what was there to celebrate? Losing another client maybe? Watching more colleagues get laid off? Not getting paid the bonuses that our contract said we should get, while the top brass got even bigger payouts? No - not much to celebrate at all.
However, when I got seconded to Virtual Clarity (remember the Top 200 Programme?) in the very early days of the take-over by DXC, their first action was to take all the DXC folks out for a 'get to know you' meal. It happened once - then word got back to DXC management, and it never happened again.
Life improved massively after I left DXC.
I would rather have a pay rise ...
Not once, no team event, no project event, no long service event, nothing. To my knowledge DXC has not spent money on staff ever.
They are however experts at getting staff to fund stuff DXC should provide.
My team went out to dinner a few weeks before the pandemic hit globally. But we had to pay the bill ourselves, because DXC crawled back from its approval to have our dinners reimbursed.
A DXC manager once approached me during a get-together with a department, and asked me if I could pay the other half of the (massive) bill at the end of the night. Realising what was going to happen -- the last 2-3 people were forced to pay the bill, hoping DXC would reimburse it -- I declined, quickly downed my pint and went home asap.
I once witnessed DXC invited people to a Christmas lunch at the office. When most arrived there, it was made clear by management towards the staff that you have to pay for your own Christmas lunch. I'm not sure how long it took, but I saw as many as 30-40 people leave for home within 15 minutes or so. Rightfully so, even I felt being screwed over and I hadn't even paid yet.
Funniest thing I've ever heard in this place was that management had their own fridge with a lock on it, so that employees would not take alcohol drinks like beer and wine from it.
At least during the Lawrie era, managers went out to dine with each other, weekly, and DXC reimbursed it all because the nepotistic management approved the expenses for them.
Yeah, DXC celebrated some things with me. On the condition that I paid for my own food and drinks.