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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Management at Dst: Ego and pride breeds Arrogance, arrogance breeds ambition, ambition, produces false accusations of poor work performance of others and ruin of departments.. Falsely accusing others of poor work performance to make themselves look good so they will be promoted over others for management positions
Management in my area was a bully. I guess DST HR mistook being a bully for being a good manager. Anyways he smoked in all the meetings and I went home smelling like an ashtray. Later DST outlawed smoking
My supervisor in future services, tech service programming group never listened to my suggestions. No one. Didn't even take my ideas and call them his own. One suggestion of mine, after I had seen a site called hot or not, was to build open database where people could upload their pics and info on a worldwide basis, and email each other. This was long before Facebook. I was ignored. So Dst lost out on becoming facebook.
The entire time I worked there not one conversation about advancement or what the next pay grades would be. Or what to do in order to advance. Just work hard and then work harder. So nothing to shoot for. When I was leaving, other departments wanted me to stay and transfer over. But I said no and left. In 6 years, not one sick day did I take, nor was I late to work even once. Their loss!
The married guy which I worked under would give me no help, support or time to answer my questions. It was like I didnt exist. He did however spend all his time assisting his girlfriend in our group to the point he did her job for her. So I told his wife about his girlfriend!
My "manager" would not promote me even though I was doing a job in the next 2 higher pay scales. I was training new people in the dept, even though my title was "trainee". So I wrote anonymous notes to his boss and sent them to his boss via the interoffice mail envelopes. Those brown envelopes that mailroom would deliver with doecuments in them. I would send them from another floor to be safe. My notes would say "John Doe is making fun of your balding head behind your back". Or "john Doe says your total a blind bat when it come to management". Or " John Doe says your incompetent". "Or john Doe says you drink way too much Tanqueray gin and make a total fool of yourself". Or "john doe says you should work in a pet store". Thus my manager never got a promotion either! KARMA!
The guy I worked for was mad at me one day. He said "if you weren't a woman i would hit you in the face".
I agree with comments on short sighted leaders at DST Systems Inc and its affiliates. I tried to tell people about sub-accounting and the revenue cuts it would being. And some leader actually signed contracts with fee penalties for Dst if the system hit too much downtime. Then Dst lent their IBM mainframe license to Russell Stover candies corp down the street. Dst didnt renew the license and so on a certain date - the operating system at Russell Stover stopped. When they called in a tech it was found they were sharing the system which is I believe, highly illegal. So why would I have any respect for the leadership of DST. They were a joke compared to the world class crew at H&R Block! Hope the former DST guys read this as they look out over their heated driveways in Colorado.
Most disrespected when working a full weekend for a rollout and was not granted a vacation day, just 1 day, the same month. I am not a slave. Keep in mind the ROOT OF THE PROBLEM - all the past top executives attended the same local religious college and REFUSED to hire other top level talent from other parts of the world or universities like Oxford, Harvard, YALE, or the London School of Economics - as those people would see how little our locally educated executives really knew and would lap them 100x over and replace them. SO TO KEEP THEIR JOBS, DST MANAGEMENT HIRED YES MEN FROM THEIR COLLEGE. Now it wasnt a bad college, but it was not up to the level that Harvard was and so competitors overtook DST and put us out of business. Hiring your friends and those that donate big sums to your old college is not the way to grow a company. DST was lucky for a while, but eventually the sharks ate us alive.