It can feel kind of liberating to work for someone who has no clue what you do and who also doesn't care about it either... Sometimes it suits me, I am freer to make my own decisions... However, I still think that it can be tedious and frustrating at times? Unfortunately, I think very few managers here actually care about what we do.
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It's like being in a communist country. All the power is centralized to the point that the line managers have very little ability to affect change. See the expense approval policy or the pay raise process for examples of how tightly the senior leadership controls things (I once had an expense authorization for $200 travel to 3 continents and travel all the way to a direct report of the CEO for approval). And we can all see what happens in communist countries - the elite get richer, everyone else is mired in mediocrity.
DXC Middle and Senior Managers are very heavily constrained by what the DXC leadership (Shouty, SteakCutter #2, Bagel etc) will let them do.
Many of them are more than capable of growing a business and treating staff well - but they're just not allowed to. Even at a very senior level, this is the case. The recently-departed Steve Turpie wanted to grow the EMEA busiess, wanted to motivate and reward staff, and ultimately build a profitable business with well-paid staff. He wanted to stop cuts, because he fully understood the impact that they had. Look what happened to him.
A DXC manager who wants to keep their job simply does what the "Leadership" tells them to do, otherwise they're next for WFR. I know, I joined DXC EMEA as a relatively senior manager and left after just 2 years because of the way I was forced to treat my team.
They aren't poor middle managers.
They just don't have any brains to grow the company. Just focussed on reducing and ki----g off the company.
These people should be nit always yes men. They should be forward thinking and say No when a stupid idea will impact the company.
Too many of them just hold useless meetings, no need for that, we need to be talking to customers to win business as every quarter we are losing.
Even Atos who are in rocky waters managed to get a book to bill over 1 this quarter.
Smell the coffee after 3 years it's GROWTH That we need to be focussed on,
Any middle managers focussed on cuts need to be cut themselves.
Poor middle managers are essentially email tigers with limited technology understanding. It is a pity that the predecessor companies used to be the beacon of Silicon valley and here we are left with a bunch of xxxs. Somewhere along the way we completely lost our bearings and not smart enough to adapt to a changing tech landscape. Hope there is some drastic measures taken to turn this ship around (cause there are tons of freeloaders here).