FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, LORDY ALMIGHTY, FREE AT LAST. Free of a DEAD AND DYING CORPSE...when a business treats it's employees like CRAP, what doers that say for the CUSTOMER?? If a business treats is workers as A#1, they will take care of the customer. Call center jobs that REWARD GOOD PERFORMANCE are sizzling HOT now! ALL HANDS HEAR THIS ABANDON SHIP THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
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"Because you've been so used to DXC, when you join another firm it will feel like they've got more money than sense and you'll find yourself asking permission if its ok to do this or that and get odd looks from your boss. You'll soon be at staff Christmas parties; get company bonuses; pay rises; attend social events; business travel; conferences; professional body subscriptions; new kit and phones and be mingling with people who laugh and joke and genuinely enjoy what they do. All this takes you by surprise at first and you realise how bad the atmosphere must have been back in DXC."
I have experienced precisely this after being RIFed from CSC in late 2017. There are good companies out there, and the 'oxygen' analogy is spot on. I am no longer suffocating under CSC. There are companies that actually lift you up, care for you. This is hard to imagine when you are at CSC/DXC. The hardest part of leaving CSC for me has been dropping the cynical worldview that I developed there. It's ugly and stands out like a sore thumb in good companies.
for @SWWfrzC-1qky : Thank you for the gut laugh . sad thing ..its true
If DXC hits its revenue target of $24.0-24.5 Billion for YTD FY18, what % increase in your Potential Total Remuneration can you reasonably expect?
a) 0.7 - 1.2% (DXC: Oligarch package)
b) 0.2 - 0.7% (DXC: Nobility package)
c) 0.001 Bitcoin (DXC: Bourgeoisie package)
d) 0% and a Riff (DXC: Serf standard offering)
if DXC, regional, team and personal performance targets are all met, what bonus can you reasonably expect?
a) Country maximum (when the country is Burundi)
b) The joy of working for DXC and a fresh set of KRA's
c) A Riff and a box to put your things in
d) A Riff and a request to arrange your own box
There's clearly a strategy here to simply extract cash from the business with little regard for the longevity of DXC.
Looking for a positive angle you'd conclude that its all about exiting old fashioned IT services and trying to move into the new.
I'd buy that idea if the money needed to do so wasn't being fire hosed out of the business and into the pockets of the shareholders. Maybe I'd even accept that if it wasn't also being channelled into the board's pockets at the same rate.
As it is, this isn't an IT business, its merely an investment vehicle with a low life expectancy.
My best guess is that Mikey continues the trend by essentially creating a run off investment fund by buying other IT companies and asset stripping them.
It obviously has an EOL, which probably coincides with whenever he jumps ship.
to fjc - no, the Board may be on the take. Follow the backscratching (so to speak), would be one interpretation. Give credit where due: the PTB did not make a secret of their vision to transform the joint into a commodity play, where the competition is solely based on cost (that's the "pure" word, in "pure play"). I don't think it entered their minds that "lowest cost" in this environment propagates unanticipated outcomes.
Because you've been so used to DXC, when you join another firm it will feel like they've got more money than sense and you'll find yourself asking permission if its ok to do this or that and get odd looks from your boss. You'll soon be at staff Christmas parties; get company bonuses; pay rises; attend social events; business travel; conferences; professional body subscriptions; new kit and phones and be mingling with people who laugh and joke and genuinely enjoy what they do. All this takes you by surprise at first and you realise how bad the atmosphere must have been back in DXC.
However, it does take a month or two to climatise to the freedom. Enjoy it. Breathe the oxygen and wake up knowing you don't have to deliver the impossible with next to nothing or deal with all those stupid HR policies and useless, endless, meaningless powerpoints coming down the pipe.
You will also benefit from proper training courses in a new job. None of that DXC CBT stuff from 2008 that passed for 'training'. You will also get to work with enthusiastic teams on fascinating new projects and clients that have been costed with travel and learn new technologies.
No longer will you have to work for a firm that tries to run its whole business on Excel!
It's nice to be out. But I am also curious why its taking the board so long to put this horse with a broken leg out of its misery. Are they pulling it around the track on wheels now?
My notice period is already running. :-D wooohooo!
seems like a rat jumping out of a ship !