I worked at DXC for nearly 5 years and remember getting the email from the then CHRO that holiday parties were banned, even though corporate officers had an annual company funded get together. I’m seeing evidence of holiday parties in other countries now. Has DXC stopped being a Scrooge during the holidays?
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I also remember the big CSC Parties in the 90's. Yes, 1998 probably was the last. I remember going to a CSC professional services get together in a hotel dinner and drinks in Birmingham to give people prizes for their contribution to the nationwide team. But CSC did hold two parties: one in the North (Winter Gardens Blackpool) and one in the South.
When CSC stopped the official work parties, some of the site employees (mainly the old BAe sites) would pay for their own Christmas party at a hotel with Account Execs putting £1000 behind the bar and telling people to be sensible when ordering. But I think people had a site back then, so felt a kind of team spirit that maybe is lost on Team video calls.
I left when EDS joined and it became DXC and then things all went to he-l in a handbasket.
I then worked for a consultancy company who held big parties in the south at some fancy hotel on a golf course in the south of nowhere. It was expensive, but in a needless way, which might have been better spent on a night out in the city. Plus, it was spoilt by having to suffer speeches and Powerpoints before the actual Dinner, drinks and disco.
My current employer currently holds one big party in the UK with no business chat, just bands, entertainment, quizzes, prizes and pyrotechnics, etc. You get a quick welcome from the CEO and then the festivities start. It's only a national firm, so it doesn't have the kind of money DXC has, but it believes in looking after and rewarding staff with an end of year party as a kind of 'thank you' to everyone for helping to make the year a success. I am too old for all that now. :-)
Its something we arent supposed to talk about but years ago some HP middle manager tried to sxually violate a CSC staffer in the bathroom at the last major party they had
Easier to hide it if they keep prople separate
DXC doesn't want happy staff. It doesn't especially seem to want any staff. But it certainly won't be paying for any seasonal cheer. Fund it yourself if you want that kind of thing around here. But why would you want that with your colleagues?
The best Christmas party I ever went to was with CSC. It was the last one ever in 1998.