Left a while back and miss it. I really do. Now i have to work for a living. Previously, i would scrape by on the minimum of hours.. There was plenty to talk about and laugh at. My new company is siezing the market with a solid strategy. Management are competent and they treat staff and customers as privilege not a right. The CEO is articulate and isnt lining her pockets. ts just not the same as being on a kn--e edge of wfr, wondering what nonsense the exec will dream up next or how managemnt is going to sc--w you or the client. It just aint the same.
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I’m thinking of joining DXC during a two week vacation at my current great gig, and riding out two salaries for a few months. Use my two week vacation to meet my manager and team, get my marching orders, then disappear for a while - only taking the mandatory calls and meetings. My friends at DXC say management is clueless and all they do all day is peruse internet and play games. I’m wondering if I can benefit from this buffoonery for a few months and pay off my car. I know it isn’t really right, but what DXC does to their employee base isn’t either.
Might be daringly fun as well!!
When you are busy, you don't have time for all the sitting, watching and wondering where your life went. But if you do achieve things and move things forward, it does make you feel a lot better outside of work. So for all the 'laughs' in work and the non-working, you did have the toxic cloud and over your head, the lack of training, the lack of keeping up professional membership and the odd external professional techie conventions giving an opportunity to meet others with ideas - some of who I keep in touch with. DXC, I recall, was so cut off from the real world that when I left, I felt I was behind by about 5 years an spent the next 3 catching up using all the new expensive service offerings out there; stuff I would never have used staying at DXC.
But if you're being sarcastic, then that's fine too :-)
Lot of the above so true, everytime your manager contacts you, know somehow they will try and skrew you somehow with a money saving scheme which has come from higher levels.
Regarding minimum work in DXC, they are normally good at skrewing generally, its a lucky few who get away doing not much. With so much attrition there's always stuff to do.
They are just so incompetent at winning new business they just know to squeeze. So always look down company except for the few or if you come in new you get the initial payments but don't expect anything more afterwards.
Look to future and not back at this bad company; don't give a hoot to what happens to DXC - there's no long term future at all
it can be hard working for a competent organization that has a future beyond the next 12-18 months, but hang in there and you may get used to it!
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me - maybe I should get one of the "DXC Domestic Abuse Champions" to contact you :-)