They have just announced a severe restriction on overtime in UK.
How are engineers who cover multiple sites meant to do their job?
Some are expected to travel at least 3 hours from one site to another. Allowing for 6 hours travel that leaves a maximum of 1 hour to do any work.
This company is slowly sh**ting itself in the foot.
We need better top level management pronto.
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We're only staying to ensure the company is helped into the grave that it belongs in. Along with a few useless colleagues, who would have been sacked for incompetence anywhere else. The people who needed the money left long ago.
Great you guys complain that you have to work OT without merit pay increases for years and then the company limits OT and you still complain. What freaking babies
When you’re contracted hours are 09:00 - 16:30 and a request comes in to be onsite for a customer at 06:00hrs with a 3 hr drive each way, unless it’s cross chargeable to the customer then it ain’t happening- well not by me anyway
So what is the new overtime policy and why dont people refuse to work for free?
What is the new overtime policy then? Can someone give explanation and wording? And what stops people from saying "No, I dont work for free"
Can someone explain to an ex CSCer what the new restricted overtime policy and rules say now, then?
And what stops people from just refusing to do the job if they're not paid?
As long as DXC Time says you've worked your hours all is good, nothing else matters in DXC
Nobody is working their full hours. We all do the hours necessary to maintain the job. And certainly there's very little productive hours going into this business. Colleagues bill only 20 chargeable hrs to make the point the rest is consumed by DXC fluff. Local management can see it but agree you'll get the same 0% either way. And the team is so thin you'd have to do something pretty serious to be let go. But the don't care either, as also get the same and think the same.
Dear Management,
Don't be surprised after ten years of no raises whatsoever, if I'm not available after hours because I have to work my second job...
Id--ts.
In the US, I was never offered overtime pay. It was, at best, time off in lieu. If one had a bad manager, then forget even that.
In my later years at DXC, I always worked my required hours, never more, and did my best to perform changes during my regular working hours.
Lets not forget here people have been outsourced from other companies to CSC / HPE / DXC, in Europe the terms and conditions that existed are continued with DXC, my contract states paid overtime.
I'm not the one that's breaking my contract if I'm expected to work unpaid overtime, I'll just stop doing it, "simples" as Aleksandr Orlov would say.
but if you’re not happy then leave.
False dichotomy. People have started being maliciously compliant like @nez+1tLkqRsb described. Others started a side hustle, or clock in 8 hours while working 3-4 hours. This management has no idea how far the rot has settled in by not addressing the elephant in the room.
@ztp+1tLkqRsb- Not everyone can afford to leave every time the penny drops. People have obligations, mortgages, children's' schools, spouse's job and multiple other things that make it difficult for them to find another job. Nevertheless, this seems to be the overwhelming advice in this forum every so often... but one must remember that many of us are employees of long standing, and when we took up the CSC/EDS/HPES offers eons ago, those were very different companies from what this monstrosity called DXC is today. We have invested our golden working years here, grown old and many of us are now looking forward to a peaceful last few years followed by a happy retirement... job hunting is not really at the top of our list right now. Hence, we take the pain to point out these id--tic decisions that cut into the very fabric of the service that we provide as a company. "Take it or leave it" is not a valid answer.
said you don’t like the conditions then find another employer and stop bi--hing. I understand redundancy in the UK, but if you’re not happy then leave. What utter babies in UK
DXC expects you to work for free!!
Well that ship has long sailed. If you treat your employees like sh1t with no yearly bonus and pay increases for going above and beyond you get an equal apathy back.
Work your contractual hours and not a minute more!
Should have read Leave home at 9AM
Easy leave to get to site at 9AM leave site at 2PM.
Problem fixed.
I was promised overtime on a project. The code was pulled before I could claim it. So never again. In fact it's better to install things in working hours when the full team is available.
In my project they actively encouraged overtime to miss a deadline, then announced a return to normal working hours before immediately asking for people to work weekends. DXC is just one moment of crazy followed by another. But it's alright, be bold, be fearless etc etc
It's OK, those 50 grads being on boarded will sort the problem ! :)