Have you seen this group on Workplace? Their ask of us is
"Please share your favorite memories from DXC Technology's first year. "
It's full of the happy clappers of DXC who think everything is great. I'm so tempted to post some alternative memories but have resisted so far, so have come here instead.
So what would you post on that group? :)
My favourite memory is that after 20+ years of service I was WFR'd within 3 months of HPE becoming DXC. Best thing that ever happened to me and now I work for a competitor with a 25% pay rise. Commiserations to my former colleagues that remain to be chopped in the near future.
May 19, 2017,My last day at DXC. Was given severance just in time for summer. Love my new job. There are jobs out there. Get out of the turmoil.
my best memory for this organization is being kicked out and working with it's own competitor. Now every day working is a sheer pleasure of getting dxc's clients.
I just ignore those invitations to join it, so I don't have to deal with the severe eye rolling that would ensue if I actually perused that site.
That Workday is Bill sht, I wanted to badly post something negative and tell all those a-- kissers to shut the fck up. But if I need my days would be shorter than any since I work in the US.
8 weeks is not enough to pay the bill's and COBRA Health insurance is too much to handle
@Sl4b1Ew-odx - Thank you for your courage in saying this. When I read your post, I literally said to myself, "Did I get drunk last night and post this?" This is precisely how I feel.
My favorite memory from DXC year one was the announcement that USPS is being spun off, meaning i won't have to deal with DXC crap soon.
I have very positive memories of DXC's first year - I left with a nice severance package. I consider my self lucky not to be working for them any more.
My favourite memory is sending a huge and very heavy parcel full of useless HPE ES tat back to my manager when I left. At his cost centre's expense.
In Belgium, the south region is firing people and even whole teams that are working for the north region. I heard the management of the north region complained to not firing people from their region!
so few of the layoffs (working for the North) got reversed and people are again working for DXC. I also worked for the North but am keeping very quiet.
I DON T WANT TO GO BACK TO SUCH A NIGHTMARE OF A COMPANY
My favorite memory of dxc was leaving and never going back
My favourite memory of DXC, in the past year, was being told I could take my 10 months of salary and leave without working my notice, whilst watching the look of hopelessness upon the faces of my colleagues who had to stay behind and pick up all the work whilst watching me smile and walk into a better job/better benefits/better prospects.
To be fair, I am not totally sure I'd have left if things had of got better. But now I wonder why I didn't leave much earlier. Is it fear of the unknown perhaps that stops one leaving? Perhaps its thinking the grass isn't greener? But when the grass in DXC is dead and the topsoil is just clay, weeds, bricks and bits of a rusty, old washing machine, then yes, it is better to leave.
Where are these internal announcements posted ?
Good memories are mostly from Indian freshers.
If anyone thinks that it’s racist or wrong me saying that, have a look at any internal announcement and see how many Indians reply saying they love it. It’s almost like they do it to earn brownie points.
Anyone who posts good memories will be targeted, so there there can be no bad memory after that.
be careful
My favorite memory is how this company managed to ruin my motivation, will to work here (or anywhere) on pointless, ever changing goals with impossible deadlines. Also another memory: of how this company totally failed to utilise any ony of my talents and made me do stupid work instead. Yeah. They managed to make me burn out and turned me into what HR folks call activy disengaged employee.
I will not see the “DXC turns 2” for sure. I hope the truth of how we seem to be making good quarterly numbers comes out soon.
Happy 1st (and hopefully last) birthday.
My favourite memories I'm not allowed to speak of openly, but rest assured its a f*** up of such epic proportions that one day it certainly will make the history books. Probably will be used as an object lesson in how to not execute a merger for MA students or something.
I too am looking forward to and working hard towards not having to see a 2nd birthday for DXC.
Hard to say if that will be achieved by me finding another job or DXC imploding in the meantime.
Was it back in 2013 when Mike asked the CSC folk worldwide what company did they want CSC to become? He was canvassing all staff opinions and offered to steer the company on a new and leading course.
Now, 5 years on, I may be wrong, but I don't remember any of us who were at the inaugural Lawrie meeting or those watching his roadshows offered anything remotely like the suggestion that we believe the company should, in five years time, be a total cluster f-ck!
I could be wrong. But I don't remember anyone asking for that at the time.
I also don't remember any of us suggesting that whole teams should be wiped out and replaced with offshore checklists or that the most technical, risk-laden projects should be distributed to untrained rookies in distant lands whose first time fix depended upon google working quick enough.
I also fail to recall anyone proposing that the way to foster a more collaborative and innovative, productive workforce would be to destroy people's lives: to consider people with 20, 30 yrs of loyalty and kick them out the door on one day's notice and escort them and their box of memories beyond the swipe-card access point and close the door without a 'thanks for all the dedication and loyalty you've shown the company over the years'.
I am almost certain I do not recall anyone suggesting that it might be a good idea if we P-ss off some lucrative clients to the point where they would place their trust in a competitor, nor do I recall any of the ideas on the blogs suggesting that the company should wrap up its delivery model in and idiotic and confusing operating model that would consume millions in consultancy only to be scrapped after 18 months and another idea tried out.
I don't recall suggesting that company success should be shared only by levels 1+2 and company failure should be dealt with by severe punishment of the workers and promotion of the useless management or even that reward and recognition should be small crumbs from the top table given to those who lips are unable to be surgically removed from a manager's posterior.
I think I would have remembered.
A year on and some are still here; many are not however. We have a new racing car team - whoo hoo!, but also quarter on quarter revenue declines and less onshore staff than a post office on a Saturday morning.
The word 'teams', in dxc, is reserved only for areas where more than one person remains. Such self elected groups have a lifespan of a mayfly. Given DXC is a mass of confusion and problems, then it is of little surprise that its biggest growth area is its Service Desk which is proud to contain an army of mindless drones, conditioned by flashing images on their morning monitor screens of DXC ticker-tape 'good news' regarding amazing 'successes' in Eurasia and requiring "your dedication, commitment' to brace against those evil headwinds threatening our way of life. 'Your continued hard work and dedication must continue to help your brave leaders at the top, feather their overly large nests; fatten their bellies to allow them to continue to step on those below.
Oh yes, Happy Birthday DXC!
Internal site if you post something to negative you’ll be out the door so fast you’re going even slim in the butt
It’s a b---s--- Site all pro company. Really don’t know what it’s good for but I am drawn to look at it once a week or more.
Make sure I'm not invited to the second anniversary.
A complete cluster f**k !