There are very few of us here who can say that they feel respected at DST. The managers are rude and extremely unprofessional. There are those who will say that this is just a job for which we are paid, but still, great employees need much more than just payment. When did you feel the most disrespected here?
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To be a manager at DST : must be able to blame others for all mistakes, don't spend any time training anyone, run people off before they hit the 10 year anniversary, make people skip vacations, document what people say - not what they do, drink on lunch hour, give small raises and make stuff up to justify it. Be uncaring, swear alot, steal small items from the company, lie to clients, kiss up to those above you. Have your secretary type all your MBA papers so you can get a degree you won't use, hog the Royals suite instead of letting staff go to games, by Brooks Brothers clothes when you have a dime store personality. Can anyone think of other items??????
My Manager, we called him "the walrus", was the most demotivating person I have ever met. He admittedly dodged the Vietnam war draft by taking classes at a tiny rural Kansas college. He put in no effort to building a team. He had no real skills. Nobody had any respect for him, even after years and years. Other then trying to brown nose, and even that failed. Never work under a manager who does not advance in the company himself. Work for high achievers only! The layoffs will continue as business is shifted to the Boston location.
Being in a position of power at DST does not give you the moral right to hate someone if they don't live up to your work expectations. After all, Dst hired each employee, deciding to do that. They could have declined them. So Dst bears the blame too
Managers at DST were universally ashamed of their workers. They expected Goldman Sachs level experts. But we were paid fast food compensation!
My boss at dst was so critical that if he sees me in heaven someday he will rush to God and blurt out that I was substandard and should not be in heaven.
The guy who was above me was nuts. He would just look at someone the first day, decide if he liked you, if not, he panned you. So I told his manager very subtly that he was badmouthing them. I ruined his career. Then left!
My manager was a jerk. So copied the escheatment code for my system, left and gave it to Sungard for free! i finally slept well after doing that. Sungard APPRECIATED IT TOO1
It was a huge blame game company. Nobody ever just said that any normal company has many ongoing constant processing and product problems. So people blamed others for even systems errors. Its was like musical chairs and nobody wanted to be the one without an excuse - cause they will then be blamed for the entire issue. Show the stupidity and backwardness of management. Who by the way, were shunned by other local companies when they were looking for work. Who in their right mind would hire a former DST manager?
evil people always support evil persons. thats their strength. it was all over DST. People lying about others
Just think of the millions of manhours worked at DST under unhappy conditions. Worry, anxiety, fear, hopelessness etc. Then these people get layed off, its horrible.
My "fearless leader" thought it was a sin to take vacations. He would throw a temper fit you asked to take any days off in the summer. You could only take vacation the last two weeks of the year, in December, when the clients were also out of office for most part. I missed out on so many fun summer trips. Dst steals your life.
Lol that’s a great story. I once sat next To an obnoxious loudmouth in the Broadway building. I once spent an afternoon loggging into his 3270 userid. At that time every three failed attempts you had to call Winchester to get a reset. After the third time he sized up someone was effing with him. That guy was t so loud after that.
Once at DST my boss accused someone/anyone/everyone in the area of taking his car keys off his desk. He was livid. Screaming, shrieking, glaring at us all. At lunch I found them under his coat in the closet behind an umbrella. They had dropped out of his coat pocket when he was hanging up his coat. So I took them (since we had already been punished for stealing the keys) and went to City Center for lunch and threw them in the trash can down there, inside my discarded McDonalds bag.
The company had a 1950's management style. It was so weird. I felt like I was in a old movie from years earlier. Some of the clothes the people wore was from the 1960's! Not surprised it went out of business. It shant be missed!
When I had to take sick time (I was really sick) then I was viewed as a traitor that didn't care about the company or its goals. So when i got sick after that, i would come to work if I could and just work "sick". I gave everyone in my department the flu once and then I was the only one there to do the work. Sick days are a joke at DST. They claim you can have them when you hire on, but in actuality they do not exist.
A headhunter once told me that DST and related subsidiaries were the last choice to send a good candidate to interview at. Any other company, but NOT Dst! He avoided doing business with DST.
When I worked here always thought I wasn't doing enough work as my supervisor wasnt ever happy with me. Turned out I was doing too MUCH work!
I was just working for the wrong company. I could have done 1/2 as much work at my new company and been their top hero!
I am not sure if this falls under disrespect. But I was young and got numerous promotions in my department at DST. I thought I was just lucky or had a good personality and that counted somehow. But as time went by, it was obvious that others should have been promoted instead of me. They had alot more knowledge and experience than me. I had to ask the people under me many questions about how the system worked just do my job. If they went on vacation then I was in a real pickle. I could tell they were tired of my questions and resented me being in a position over them. Its odd being mentored by someone several levels below you. I know a few times they gave me bad information just to see me fail. So i left the company. DST needed to have a specific list of rules as to who is promoted - taking into account their level of systems experience, if they are a SME to others, if they can tackle bigger problems than others, if they learn faster than others. I was promoted to my level of failure and embarrasement. That should not have happened. My Boss just picked his favs to promote, no other qualifications needed
Someone told me that DST management decides your whole advancement future after you have worked there about 2 months. Of course it depends on which college you attended, if you were referred to DST by someone who works there in a high position, if your Father was the mayor of the wealthiest city on the Kansas side of the state line in metro KC area, if your pretty, if your manager wants to "date you", if you will do "whatever" your manager wants when you travel with him on company business. Very poor company overall for future corporate superstars! They leave fast!
Soon I plan to quit. Well ghost actually. Just leave after I get paid and not show up the next week. Now days it doesn't matter. I have friends that are going to hire me at their company and I would rather worn my fingers to the bone for them. They treat me well. I will of course make a few huge mistakes just before i leave DST. Kind of a parting gift.
The guy I worked for was very racist.
In Kansas City, it was well known Dst had very undertrained and poor, almost juvenile management. No other companies would hire them away from Dst so the gathered and multiplied there, ruining the company.
Dst decides the very first week if they love you or hate you. Your whole career is based on the first week. They won't change their mind if you really good or bad things after that. Very shallow way of treating people
They are terrible, my manager was promoted by sleeping with the right individual. We all know that happens but she was terrible at her job and not that good looking.
Dst managers seemed to be men with mommy issues, and pursued any young girl working for them. Pitiful.
Dst chose managers who were rude, uncaring, angry, aggressive, and demanded more work from staff than they were paid for. These traits were viewed as great managerial skills. However, DST was not a blue collar factory, where turning out a large number of widgets had to be done each day. This is why Dst has such a horrible management score amoung local companies
The gal in charge of my group got her position by dating her manager. So none of us respected her. She was d-mb. We didn't need her help in any way. She gave us no respect as she knew how we felt about her.
I had a Manager that was made a "Director" of DST for 1 year only. The next year he was not one. And never again was he considered. He was a slacker in my humble opinion. Should have been working at a fast food place.
I worked for a guy that was a weirdo. We avoided him as best we could. Had he not even been at DST at all, the area would have run more efficiently and productively
Nothing is more pathetic in the workplace than respecting your manager out of fear. Fear of his temper tantrums, fear of his sinking your hard earned career, fear of him bad mouthing you behind your back to all other
In 1983 the United office workers union held a vote for DST staff to unionize. It failed. It would have brought a average 16.7% increase in pay. Multiply that by 10 years of working there, 10 years x16.7= 167 of base pay increase. That 1.6 years of extra pay we missed in only 10 years. My super did not like me after I voted for the union. What could you with that $ now?
The guy I answered to gaslight everyone. He would hold meetings around lunchtime without telling people. Then later reprimand people for not attending.
I got tired of the guy above me hitting on me all the time. It made it that much more difficult to concentrate and do my job well. I would cringe everytime I saw him. He also overestimated his attractiveness and intelligence.
My Manager was a single mother and she was ashamed of it, rather than being proud and happy with her lot in life. She was drunk alot of the time on the job. She didn't know how to program Assembler language but was in charge of a group of Assembler programmers. She looked tired, run down, took alot of sick time and played favorites to the young guys in department under her. She could have done something with her hair too, it was a bad red look and styled like it was the 1960's. She gave us no reason to be happy in her group.
The poor way your DST manager treats you is a statement about what type of person they are. It has nothing to do with what kind of person you are.
My manager decided to demo a system to his boss. An application I built. I was not supposed to be there as my manager wanted to take all the credit. Well he set it up wrong and it kept crashing! So he looked bad, not me.
Oddly, my dept head would let the females in the office walk around all day without shoes. "Cause their feet hurt". Really, at 9am their feet were hurting? When a male tried that, he was severely chastised. Just another ignorant dept head.
My Boss didn't like my religion. It was not the religion of the "top leaders" of the company and the religious college they supported and gradusted from.
My manager insisted we not tell a client about processing that was not done right. But of course the client found out and called Tom Mc. What a mess! I think we had to pay the client interest.
My raise was promised during my review. But I didn't receive it for two years. It takes two years for approval?