Been thinking lately about how nice it would be to have job security. Imagine waking up on the weekend and being able to relax and not immediately start stressing about the following week.
Does anybody think we will ever have job security at DXC?
And before people start yelling at me to leave, I would if I could. At this moment, leaving is simply not an option for me (family reasons.)
Mikey and his management stooges have job security at DXC. What are you complaining about?
i wake up relaxed all the time. My job is guaranteed. No more hassles with middle and upper management clowns. I can even bash em anytime I want. I am chilled and retired. NO more BS from arseholes.
Most companies will continually look at whether individual employees have the skills they need for the future, and also whether the employees could be replaced by someone else who they believe can do the job at a lower cost - whether offshore or onshore.
Most universities these days advise students that once they have stopped gaining skills and experience in their current position they should look elsewhere for a new role that will offer better pay and conditions and an opportunity to gain more skills and experience, that will enable them to increase their market value to employers.
Sadly many people who have stayed with companies for a long period of time find themselves in the position that the company believes their skills are not up to date and that they can be replaced with an alternative at a lower cost. In some cases the employer may be right, in others they may be overlooking the wealth of experience and knowledge their employees have accumulated.
If you want job security these days the best way is to keep your skills up to date, ensure you put your resume out in the market and find a better position, one which you will be able to improve you market value to potential employers - you will have two to three years before your new employer starts asking whether you can be replaced at a lower cost and by then you should be looking for your next role.
Your employer doesn't feel they owe you anything for your years of service, don't act like you owe them anything other than an honest days labor for an honest days pay - employment is a market value based transaction and if you don't recognize this you are likely to be surprised.
If your market value is more than your existing company wants to pay, then time to start looking. Your market value is your job security.
No. DXC's future model is not one of long-term vocational activity. It is an operating model of hire labour (or labor) when it is required for short of medium duration projects. They don't want permanent contracts. Most of the roles will be automated; that's their aspiration and I make no comment on the gulf between their aspiration and their current capability to achieve it.
Having moved from DXC unstability to a very stable one, doesn't make you feel "Ah, that's better" - yes, it is better, but you don't have time to think like that anymore. You think about the client and the work - like you did in the old days before the grabbing rabble took over. Also, because there is no sword of Damocles over your head in a growing firm, you can just get on with what you do best - your job. Using your skills to help clients. One think you will notice is that your productivity will go up and so will your energy and your life outside of work drastically improves - no more moaning to your other half about work. Seems an alien concept doesn't it?
I won't tell you to "Get out" because those that remain stay for finance/family/ nr retirement reasons and I get that. Besides, you brave people who stay there, are our reporters on the ground, albeit like the caged parrot in the mine.
"Would someone please translate this into English? I'm amazed at the number of people who post here and can't even put together an intelligent thought. Who hires them?"
Why DXC of course ! ;)
"we'll all be on some form of wearfare or dead because lack of food.
The only way forward is to PUT People to work, if your working and early a salary your purchasing stuff. History repeats
During the great depression national commitment to alleviate unemployment by providing jobs would help overcome a negative public attitude toward the unemployed as a permanent underclass . We could SHOULD learn from HISTORY https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/harry-hopkins-and-work-relief-during-the-great-depression/"
Would someone please translate this into English? I'm amazed at the number of people who post here and can't even put together an intelligent thought. Who hires them?
No there is no such thing as job security with everything going off shore and all this so called AI and Robotics. Someday there won't be jobs for the American people and we'll all be on some form of wearfare or dead because lack of food.
The only way forward is to PUT People to work, if your working and early a salary your purchasing stuff. History repeats
During the great depression national commitment to alleviate unemployment by providing jobs would help overcome a negative public attitude toward the unemployed as a permanent underclass . We could SHOULD learn from HISTORY https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/harry-hopkins-and-work-relief-during-the-great-depression/