Thread regarding DST Systems layoffs

The manager who was visually impaired went to the preferred local college (now it's called a university). That's all he had going for him

DST employees feel stress and probably have nightmares about the abuse they suffered. I saw nothing but blame games and a sl--t to criticize. Shatter moral and cause people to think badly of themselves. For what? Just so you can be an archer bunker type manager? It was bad.

My opinion: My manager at DST was badly visually impaired. Born that way. He was an average employee as far as work and understanding of the business. But upper management felt sorry for him and so they promoted him every chance they could, maybe because he was not a serious threat to their jobs at the top. So he got promoted to a V.P. level even though he could not really do that work. He could not read a computer screen or a handwritten document which really limits what you could do at DST. His secretary did his papers at the office so he could get an MBA. Any number of other people would have been much more effective in his V.P. role. He was also very frustrated and would yell and scream at staff, he was overwhelmed. Sometimes its best to not cater to some people just because they are different. He and others around him would have been happier if he was kept at the level he best performed at, ..... a lower level. Plus his higher status attracted gold digger type girls at DST to pursue him. My opinion is he was manipulated by them. People deserve fair and equal treatment even if disabled. But putting them in really difficult jobs they are not qualified for is not fair to them. Find a position that best suits a person. They will be much happier. DST seemed to hire many others that had no clue about the industry and that hurt the business. Hire some financial geniuses from London, Paris, NYC, Chicago. Not just the guys from the local college 5 miles away.....just my opinion

Yes Dst Systems was abusive. There was at least one su----e there. On premise. A fired employee in the early 1980's went to the top of 301 W 11th Street, to what was then the lunch room, on the 6th floor and jumped off the back balcony. His wife and kids were in a car out front waiting for him to take him home. He really didn't do anything wrong, the managers just didn't like him and probably wanted to replace him with someone more attractive. Then the United Office Workers Union tried to lobby staff and get a union for the low paid hourly workers. Anyone involved in handing out flyers was fired. The Union was voted down. Maybe if your newer to this company things look different.

This is crazy to read. I was an intern there for two years, once in some offshoot of cybersecurity, and once doing business stuff. Neither of my bosses were crazy and Katy from HR was an angel. Though they did try to schedule the intern day of giving for the layoff day lmao so we wouldn't have to see it. The places I was in 2017-2019 were calm and cordial. Though I did hear some big-wigs screaming sometimes in their barely closed middle-floor offices. Everyone I worked with was a 50 something with kids who just wanted to make it to retirement. Nobody cared enough to fight that I saw. I'm sure the view I got was pretty rosy though.

I worked in H.R. and my manager, well she was a brown noser. Guess it paid off for her in millions of ways

My "co-worker" who thought she was everyone's manager wore low cut evening dresses to work, to show off her "attributes". Well it got her noticed. She would go to the Lake of the Ozarks and ride on the speedboats of the company top brass. She was highly immature and angry all the time like a small child. She had to transfer out of my area to another, as she started dating our true department head. Gold digger she was and is!

In the past. Managers were Archie Bunker types with low intelligence. Dst has a horrible reputation as a result.

My whole department marked their calendars to show when it was "that time of month" for our manager. She became a monster and everyone was on edge.

I left due to s-xual harassment and unwanted attention. My manager was a desperate simp

I keep watching the Kansas City Star obituaries. When I see the obit of my former abusive supervisor, or the senior staff that ran DST for decades, I will have a small private party and celebration.

I left the company as my Manager was a loose cannon and it seemed someday he would hurt someone. I know he was violent towards his wife...

I was the most productive person in my department for years. Taking on every optional project. Never a single verbal complement given. That's silent bullying.

Hopefully DST has changed. Cruel treatment of employees and bully tactics can result in numerous violent responses by employees. We have read about these cases for years. Usually its a poorly treated employee that snaps and goes after the boss. The 1950's slave driver atmosphere of DST has damaged its reputation even back in the 1980's. The worl everyone used to describe DST was "sweatshop". Sad, as Ewing Kauffman on the other side of town loved his staff and treated them like his family. What a difference.

The old guys in the "purple palace" were all bullies. They just acted nice and fooled the rank and file staff. They allowed and promoted hiring of rude and crude department managers. They knew staff was verbally abused and mistreated each day. They didn't care. They knew about the tiny raises and rare promotions for very hard workers. They didnt care. They knew about the occasional su----e of an overworked and under appreciated worker, they didn't care. They got the comp board to award them millions in options and deferred comp. They didn't even want DST to unionize....wake up people - DST has been against you since 1977.

My Manager would call me at home at night to ask me if things had been done that day for nightly processing. Calls at 11pm were not unusual.

I had a manager once in the UK business (Gingerpi55head who we refer to him by) who had a good memory (except on Monday's) and that's about all, he was rude, swore, shouted a lot, we all did our best to avoid him (..some still do) until we were out of that department/away from his reach. GP did teach me one valuable lesson is to dance with fire but not let it burn you, until its purpose is no longer needed - thanks Alan!

The guy I worked for graduated from Rockhurst College. He was not impressive. He was actually not bright at all. He would throw mega temper tantrums and so people didn't even want to converse with him on a daily basis. People avoided him. He had no mentoring ability. Very petty and immature.

My opinion is 5% of the management was actually qualified and motivational and teambuilders. Most were promoted into their positions as they were aggressive, hardened to feelings, critical and headstrong. Basically a 1940's "manufacturing manager's" attitude. Very bias and never able to admit they were wrong. I attribute this to the Senior executives who set the tone for the entire organization by allowing or ignoring this antiquanted behavior, based on their idea fear in the workplace drives productivity.

I worked for someone that lied and blamed staff when problems came up. Always someone else's fault, not theirs. "Always drunk redhead" is what we called our department manager

My manager wanted to have a personal relationship with me. My mate put and end to that! Nice to have a supportive mate watching out for me. However my manager then chased after every other skirt in the office. What a jerk

My director came from HR in a previous time at DST. There were threats of termination often. Every meeting with her was tense. It was commonly a fight to prove I was on the ball. While she would try and throw me under the bus in a big meeting, I had to stand up and do it back to her. I guess that is one reason I am not there anymore, and I am proud of it!

I did have a very bad manager. He was extremely threatening. Nobody liked him. It hampered out department's relationships with other areas. He overlooked SUBACCOUNTING and in that manner cost DST millions in lost revenue by not modifying contracts to handle the revenue drop sub accounts posed. He will forever be know as a loser that lost DST so much.

My direct supervisor was a bully till he needed help from the underlings. He was not bright, could not learn about our software platform. So he had to be nice or we would forget things he needed to know

I was in the Kansas City office. My superior lacked maturity and patience. He was unqualified. Nobody respected him. He has bad eyes and could hardly even read. So all he could do was go wild when informed a problem had occurred. He had no skills other than a memory like a perfect database.

Maybe don't be such pu----s.

I had a bully boss at DST UK (Build Management) who is still there - luckily I am not.

He was very rude, shout and swear quite often be aggressive but felt sorry for him as he looked like sh*t in the mornings and most of us in the team agreed he liked to hit the bottle hard every evening and weekend, owing to this behaviour. A lot of what went wrong was always buried and issues hidden from him until we transferred to another manager.

In our country (from India) this is unheard of but tolerated to keep job.

My Boss was a bully/dictator. So I sent an anonymous note by inter office mail to his Boss. It stated that he made fun of his Boss and management behind their backs. This stunted his career and was fun payback

Rather than motivate correctly and in an uplifting way, a poor manager will threaten or install a hostile environment. You can file a lawsuit, as dst is not covered by any labor unions

Yes, mine was. Termination was often mentioned in meetings, even though we did our job and performed above expectations. I guess she always wanted to instill fear and intimidation. It did not work, we usually snickered because we knew the end was near.