Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Reminds me that there is a registry setting that can be applied against Skype for Business to show that a person is always online or busy ... even when in the toilet or out to lunch.

I think the consensus on here apart from one or two naive people is that it’s sh-- at DXC, so find a job somewhere else, like Costa of Subway, as the working conditions are far better!

Original poster, have we answered your question?

I used to love my job and didn't mind working over 40 hours, and now I"m working less and less because I don't care. I'm not getting a raise or bonus again this year because I live in the USA. My insurance went up $700 a month for less coverage so now I'm taking LESS money home. Every email from the company keeps taking things away from me making e more depressed and angry.

Why stay, because I haven't found another job

I agree with what others have said about not going above and beyond. I've been ranked in the top performance category for the past five years, and I really want to do my very best. But at the same time, why bother when it yields nothing (no raises or bonuses) and at the end of the day you are working for a bunch of greedy, arrogant corporate MBAs who only care about lining their own pockets? I'm done with supporting their lifestyles of luxury. When the clock strikes 5, I'm done, regardless of what's left on my plate. I used to not be that way, but things have changed around me so I just deal with it. That said, for those of you who have gone on to greener pastures, I applaud you and truly hope for the best. I've been trying to get out of this hellhole myself for a while now and find a company that truly appreciates and rewards hard work, dedication, and a desire to excel. But it's tough and I'm sure my age doesn't work to my benefit. I wish there was some way for us to know where you guys went to find a better job. You know, like which companies. I know that probably isn't possible and would blow your anonymity, but it would be nice to know who to focus your efforts on rather than responding to multiple job postings and watching your resume` go into a black hole.

From January until July of this year I actually went into the office less than 10 days out of that seven month period, and no one said a word to me. I took care of things that would have negatively impacted my teammates had I not completed them, but I did no proactive work. My manager either did not notice this or did not care - I still can't tell which.

We were set to undergo a large application transformation in August for which I would have been the lead contact and PM (as the only person on the team other than my manager with a software dev/app owner background). This app transformation project would have entailed extremely short delivery timelines and lots of very late nights, and for all this extra Herculean effort, I would receive no additional pay rise or bonus.

In mid-July I accepted an offer with another company, receiving a 25% pay hike, stock options, and unlimited vacation (in an environment where you can actually use it), AND the same flexible work situation as I had at HPE. The change to my outlook has been enormous; I am no longer sullen and pessimistic about work, and the things we work on are interesting and relevant (unlike everything at HP, where we were still using an active directory tool developed in 1994).

I do find, however, that I am not going above and beyond the call of duty anymore.

Exactly, I do my job to the best of my ability, and as professionally as I can, we keep the customer happy, and look out for each other, nothing more nothing less, it’s just a pity our efforts go without proper reward. My salary is 20% less in real terms than it was ten years ago, my pensions has been eroded as well as a reduction in other benefits.

Very interesting thread! I am professional, I do my job and do it well.

I do find, however, that I am not going above and beyond the call of duty anymore. Why bother? I'm also not working any overtime anymore. I'm through with working extra hours, but only being able to put 40 hours in CATW.

So yes, I find lately (since around the beginning of the year) I've ignored a few emails if they are not specifically addressed to me, instead of jumping in like I would have before they started WFRing all the experienced staff.

Doing a good job? Yes. Blowing off work? No. Doing extra, heck no!

‘ for 20+ years‘.

Ah still learning then - bless, sounds like you need to see someone about the stress symptoms you seem to be exhibiting.

How very dare you castigate loyal, hard working professionals who have been treated appallingly by this shocking, penny pinching company. Come back in a decade or two and tell us how it all turned out for you, there’s a good (company) person!

OH my god where do you all work. I am busy all day in meetings, plus trying to get some actual work done.

I work because I need the paycheck and I have been a professional for 20+ years and will continue to be so. All these a holes who are not working and just sitting around, get the F**k out , so we can at least get people in that are true professionals and work to get paid!

@1owj that’s an absolutely accurate assessment of what’s gone on and continues to go on. People have invested in these companies for years of their life only to be treated like rubbish. Who can blame them for doing as they do, anyone who thinks differently is naive, and free from cynicism, but it won’t last, trust me.

While I am in an office all alone, I am working my butt off. I have personally generated over $1 MM in sales to clients this year by recommending and upselling products and services that I am responsible for directly to the client. The problem is that for all my work and productivity, I can't match the cost to keep real estate that has 250 seats in it, but only one worker who comes in. I also can't match the cost to pay executive bonuses and mismanagement of company splits and divestitures. I also cannot book more than 40 hours to CATW even though I work much more than that. At the end of the day, I believe my hard work will be rewarded with no pay raise, no bonus, and probably a shove out the door in favor of cheaper labor in other countries.

I work because I need the paycheck and I have been a professional for 26 years and will continue to be so. That is it, because DXC offers no other incentive or motivation.

Lol@-1zwy "I also enjoy the relaxed dress code since there is no one in the office to interact with."

Awww! I can almost hear that time-card 'beep' as it echoes throughout the dark, foreboding, white-walled corridors of another DXC expensive real estate. I can see that single flickering flourescent light, struggling to illuminate that dusty, 'DXC' sign hanging from the squeaky chain, as tumbleweed bounces through the open plan office.

We know this thread looks like a reason to WFR us all, but...

We're just playing the system.

Why should anyone go out of their way to help this rotten regime, when they act like they do.

What happened to those 'Management Principles'? People our are greatest asset. Remember? No, the kids won't, but the rest might. Do you think you will see any documented principle like that anymore or do you think it will all be purely financial, where 'career progression' is what happens to dust when you sweep it?

Sure, people will do what is right for themselves and the client; they're professionals, but they won't bend over backwards any longer. Time to stop. It's human. It's natural.

The problems that exist do not lie with the workers, it lies with total and complete ineffective Management and I am talking top levels now. Those guys we blame in the middle are there to catch the stones you throw at them and have no more power than you and I.

The real people to blame is at the top.

Meanwhile those who have worked here since VHS recorders first appeared will not realise their skills have fallen behind the industry and will do the minimum whilst waiting for payout. The rest have no excuse. Get out now.

' OH my god where do you all work. I am busy all day in meetings, plus trying to get some actual work done'

Are you a new starter or maybe you haven't worked at DXC or it's forbears very long? If none if these apply maybe you haven't been mugged off, with your pay, conditions, and pensions eroded for a decade or more by the company in this, or previous incarnations.

I'd be interested to know.

I work in an office where I am the only person who comes in on a regular basis. Pretty boring and depressing except for the fact that I have enough work for 3 people due to lay-offs. I can stay pretty busy both at the office and at home which is about a 50/50 split for me now. I also enjoy the relaxed dress code since there is no one in the office to interact with.

The work is busy, but I do make sure I carve out time every week for job searches and talking to prospective companies for my next position.

For DXC staff...

There are several mouse moving utilities you can get which simulate movement every minute, so that people will think you are at your desk. Skype will stay green and "available".

If anyone tried to ping you, to talk to you, you can always say you were on an unplanned phone call. The other thing that people do is set their own meetings on the calendar so you look busy. Unfortunately, you need a mouse mover, so that you don't look like you are both in a meeting but have been away from your desk for 2 hours too! Senior Managers use this trick all the time.

Mouse Jiggler

Caffeine

Auto mouse-mover

OH my god where do you all work. I am busy all day in meetings, plus trying to get some actual work done.

Maybe all this people that are not asking for work should be WRF's , because you making people like work there butt off.

Sh--

@PlpIxfw-nij You set yourself as "away"? Your boss won't notice and wonder where you are? I work from home since the split because the office I was at remained HPE and the next closest office is 140 miles away. My work laptop sits next to my home PC, so I logon to my work PC and jiggle the mouse every 15 minutes or so. That way the screensaver doesn't come on and Skype shows "Available". (Just in case someone IMs me, which rarely happens because there are only a few US employees left on my account. The rest are India contractors and they don't work my hours).

Then I ignore or delete whatever email I can, attend as few meetings as possible, etc etc, while doing other stuff on my home PC. I guess I should feel guiltier about this than I do.

Looks like most people are just getting their time in until the inevitable happens, and who can blame them. What an absolute shambles of a senior leadership team DXC has. Still they and the shareholders are happy, they are only there for speculation and short term gain, and don’t give a toss about real people or the company.

Responses are so sad. I really hope the underlying hopelessness can be remedied soon. But with no product nor service to provide I suspect DXC will go the way if the dodo bird.

I spend my week thinking up new ways to patronize most of the workforce in the UK and Ireland. I use my time for target practice, throwing chocolates or other types of sweets (I prefer to use the cheap ones for the scumbags...hehe), and imagine I am hitting the plebs....oops... I mean the trusted employees... square between the eyes... before I tell them that we don't value them, need them or give a flying f@ck about them... lol. I am also taking lessons from Mike on how to gratuitously rub the noses of the plebs...oops... I mean the beloved employees (what am I like?...hehe), in the fact that I am completely comfortable with the fact that I'm going to be taking a golden handshake worth more than they could ever imagine in their pathetic wildest dreams in a few months...hehe. Life is great to be honest... I've ordered a new yacht :) There is no better feeling than sh**ing on those less fortunate than me... It gives me a sense of accomplishment which is very important to me and not to mention in the whole ethos of DXC. I only hope that one day Mike will realize my love for him. There is no better place to be than DXC. Peace and love. Nick xxx

I haven't been in the office for weeks and nobody has noticed

I'm a capability manager a DXC. So, my entire week is spent pretending that I am busy doing important "capability" stuff which mainly involves approving annual leave requests and informing everyone that they are in a redundancy pool again. I spend most of my time vaping on my e-cig outside.

Monday: show up at office about 10 am... logon to corporate and set myself "away" on Skype... go for breakfast until about 11 am... come back to desk and surf the internet until lunch time... go for lunch until about 2:15 pm... go to a quite room for an hours sleep... go back to desk and check my facebook... go for an afternoon coffee until about 4:30 pm.... then go home and cry.

Tuesday - Friday: the same as Monday.

DXC has succeeded in creating one of the most depressing and gloomy corporate workplaces in the world. There should be studies made of the management techniques they have implemented to achieve such a level of demoralization and discontent among it's workforce in such a short space of time. It is quite incredible.

Monday: go to office, leave at lunch because it is empty

Tues-Fri: work from home while trying to do as little "work" as possible

@PlpIxfw-grf is correct abour everything

PlpIxfw-grf nailed it.

In India

Monday - Reach office two hours late, reply some emails which you want to reply, submit your reimbursement, leave two hours early.

Tuesday to Wednesday - Work for home...

Friday - FUN@WORK.. How can you work on Friday?? Friday is for FUN...

Monday - see if there is much on this week.

Wednesday - do a bit of work.

Friday - put in a travel request - just in case.

No problem.

I would say that a typical week would start on Monday morning with the goodbye emails from your closest colleague, followed by the usual pessimistic concern and worry of your continuance; the pressure of working to cover your 6 WFR'd team-mates and the usual obligatory fear of losing your livelihood. Tuesday is more of a debilitating, dark pessimism of the company's future; then we have a Wednesday onslaught of overpowering, restrictive policy and corporate lies before Thursday: when you gradually descends into a vacuous, dark pit of hopeless despair, worry and tension, followed by a claustrophobic deep depression which drains your remaining self respect, self-confidence and self belief, leaving you a highly-stressed individual trying to keep the family and kids from absorbing your same worries and managing to keep yourself warm at night with memories of how it used to be a good, expanding company that struggled to keep up with new contracts.

Then there's Friday when things can get worse.

If I've missed anything, I am sure others can chip in.

Typical week is trying to do the least possible, thus making a daily bonus/pay rise, as non have been forthcoming in this awful company for at least ten years.

Let me explain - I work in a team that work less and less hours, we get the job done, look after our customers and each other, but do as little as possible, some days my hourly rate is astronomical, I haven't put a full week in for at least two years, long may it continue. It's the only way to get back at the scum bags running this outfit, and maintain some self respect.

My advice would be to look somewhere else to work if you value your self worth.

In US, typical week includes waiting for WFR notice. May be same for some other countries. Unless you are Mikey or his special pals in which case you take boat load of monies home like it is raining like Hurricane Harvey. God bless capitalism and corporate greed.