Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

@y0 If you actually have a working WBS!! That process also broke in the eTes to DXC.Time switch, and still not resolved a month on.

Can't get it's own IT right!!

Please fill in your timesheets

@w5 Clearly nobody is listening, and probably nobody cares, apart from the few on here still willing to call it out. The whole machine seems built around spinning whatever narrative suits the moment — talk the share price up when executives want to sell, then let it drift back down when it’s time to explain away staff pay. Strangely, none of it appears linked to what we actually do, how long things take, or the quality delivered. There’s still enough momentum in the business that it just keeps rolling on regardless, and that's probably all the market is interested in. Their money isn't in it for the long haul.

I post on Linkedin, it does more Good to let the world know than this site. If more did it there might be some changes in the way DXC treats its employee's . Now it jist looks like there is 1 bad apple , ME!

@dm Shareholder base is heavily institutional so DXC barely registers somewhere past the third decimal. It is in one of those tiny digits they tend to ignore. Getting the CEO job is not what people make it out to be. It is who you know not what you know. Get in front of a few board members and key portfolio managers that is the only hard part because they are busy and hard to reach. After that it is a clear runway and no one gives a rats -ss as long as you do not attract attention to yourself by sc--wing up like Laurie and Saliva did, like in a way that makes board members start complaining to portfolio managers in the shareholder institutions. It is like any other job just with extra bosses who do not work in the company.

@dk So auto correct got the better of me again. I see you're one of those people who are more concerned with paperwork than progress. Hence why a couple of lines in a config file is evidently 100hrs work. It really isn't and the clients know it. So they are not putting further work our way. I could do more - much more - but DXC and it's ways have blocked all progress and the works no longer coming in.

Why do I stay? I ask myself this a lot, but I don't need this or any job. They can continue to pay me to do nothing as long as they like. Or give me a lump sum. Their choice. Currently they have chosen the latter and keep declining my VR requests. I have no idea why. We obviously see it differently. Or.... The company knows it's about to go bust and it's the government that will be paying our statutory redundancy not DXC.

@a7 Oh everyone has been saying that for years and DXC executives continue to RA-E the stock holders

@cx what Plant , guess you mean planet. Guess you are being paid what you deserve

@cx If you still have a few years until retirement extract maximum value while positioning yourself to transition to a better company. If your employment is terminated in the coming months ensure you secure the best possible severance package as they will try to match only the statutory minimum even though employment contracts and local laws in many countries may entitle you to more. If the company becomes insolvent (as current market conditions imply this is not only increasingly likely but likely to occur sooner) ensure you claim any statutory redundancy benefits available under your country’s laws. The management’s expectations of the workforce are extremely modest. They are fully aware of what is happening but lack the financial resources and operational capacity to materially change it. As a result the organization is effectively operating in a phase of presentation instead of substance. They are there to maintain the appearance of normalcy and professionalism. The company is under pressure from all sides, customers, suppliers, workforce, creditors, competitors, new entrants, shareholders and broader market. In this environment, the focus naturally shifts towards maintaining stability and managing expectations rather than driving meaningful transformation. This is not a business with durable structural protection. It is no castle with a moat of tangible assets and defensible intellectual property. This business rests on goodwill, reputation and the capabilities of its workforce. Much of that has long been eroded. So it is all a question of when not if.

@a7 I agree. I've come not to expect a pay rise. I've adjusted my effort to virtually zero. Nothing changed. In reality I do very little that's useful for our clients. DXC bills me out at extortionate rates. 100hrs to change a simple config file - what plant are we on! They pay it and grumble later.

Why am I still here? I'm not fighting to do more work for no more pay. But get why it's difficult to justify a rise. I gave up on DXC. My income comes from investments and a side hustle. Just holding out for the end where I hope to collect a statutory redundancy which TBF even at max payment is irrelevant. Trumps war sends my pension up or down by those sorts of numbers in the space of a week.

Wake me up when it's over!! I certainly don't need to be awake to do the so called day job!!!

You might be expecting a bit too much. The cash flow is already under serious strain. At this stage, the focus is less on bonuses and pay raises more on whether suppliers and creditors will stay patient long enough for the next act. And the brutal reality is that there is no next act at all, at least not in the way it’s being implied by the optimistic public messaging from management. In practical terms, you should recalibrate your expectations around compensation very sharply downward. Pay rises are going to be very rare, very modest and very symbolic. If you do end up seeing something like 2% after 7 years of waiting, be very thankful because you’re not going to see anything like that for another 7 years and the financial situation will only deteriorate faster.

Of course we will. I'm going to buy a third car with mine.