Mary gone, Howard gone, Brady Gone, Kristi gone, now Brock has been demoted, I'm sure I'm forgetting some others....
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Some of the management are semi decent - now lost in the management shark tank of trying to keep their job, desperate not to be shown the door in their fifties as it's getting tough out there. Most were good engineers etc and really don't have the skills to manage a team properly.
Some BAE management are.
@ea The client used to pay extra for people to travel to be onsite. So much extra that on DXC made a profit, even if you managed to spend up to the expenses cap. But not in DXC. Ban all travel, make it difficult. Client stopped paying extra!
@e9+1k1e6b9sw the useless Brock was up until recently heading a large amount of delivery. He put in so many paper checks that people gave up. He thought he did the right thing by reducing costs, but alot of what he stopped was profit generating extra revenue work.
With Silo DXC Brock type managers just focused on cost reduction who arent bothered about extra revenue generated from doing out of hours work which is rechargable to the customer the company is going nowhere.
They cut the branch that generates the revenue, and that's why you keep on getting negative growth at DXC.
The issues and problems in DXC go far deeper than just one individual (Brock) and the chances of fixing them in the near term are nigh on zero !
It needs a top to bottom reorg, products that customers actually want/need and teams capable of supporting those customers, not trying to sc--w them at every turn.
How is there so much focus on this one Brock. I suspect it impacts less than 1% of DXC. If is disappeared today, would it really materially change our issues in DXC?
@dc demoting him is the first step. I've seen this story before. He'll be increasingly relegated to less important tasks until he's irrelevant.
Until Brock goes the ship is doomed, his the biggest anchor dragging everyone down with his endless paperwork blockers tickboxes preventing any real work or motivation.
@a1 how long have you been hanging on for? Sounds like the sink cost fallacy
I doubt it. There's some really hard truths coming out here. But if you don't trust and listen to your staff then there's little hope left. There was a point I moaned because I cared, and wanted it to change. I've lost patience. I moan now because I just want it to end. But can't convince my wife we don't need the money! Especially when there might be a redundancy around the corner, so hanging on until there is.