Why would you stay at a place where you know there is no furthering your career, no matter how good you are? This is nepotism country, and everybody knows it.
Be smart. Don't wait for severance that might never come. Leave while there are still available jobs. Economy will not be as good forever.
@Z2JeAjG-2dcu - You should look into labor laws, they're fascinating.
EDS, HP, HPE and others have fallen foul of exactly what you state in the past - you cannot measure a salaried employee based on a time card. The minute you require them to clock in/clock out or log in, log out etc, they become 'hourly' employees, and are entitled to overtime and other compensations. Back in the days when we had contracts, they could specify things like start times and end times....and you consented to those when you signed the contract. I haven't seen one of those (at least in the US) for 20+ years.
Salaried employees get the same pay regardless of hours worked. The company doesn't care if you work 60+ hours, they don't have to pay any more. For them, it's basically free work. If the employee is consistently performing their tasks in less than 40, then that's up to management to determine if the compensation being paid for those tasks is acceptable or not. They can then add more responsibility/deliverables, and the employee can then decide if the remuneration is still acceptable.
No one is 'cheating the company' - if anything, it's simply representative of the inept management this company has displayed for years - in most cases, your manager has no idea what you do, has no way to reward you for going above and beyond, and frankly is little use other than to be a sympathetic ear when you have an issue...even though they probably can't do anything about whatever issue you have anyway. As long as you put 40 hours on your timesheet, they can check the box and their boss doesn't b--ch at them.
“ Tell me how many hours do you put on your time sheet.”. WHAT?? You have got to be kidding. Where do you work, a coal mine or a burger joint?
I don’t get paid by how many hours I plant my @$$ in a chair here. I get paid for the results I deliver. You must have more rust in your cranium than I thought. If you judge your career by number of hours worked instead of results achieved, then I pity you.
And just for the record, I haven’t punched a timecard since 1978. If you do, you are on the wrong path.
Sadly, a lot of these comments seem to describe my area of DXC as well. I think 'riding the gravy train' describes perfectly what is occurring with many in the company now. Leadership sets the example that employees follow. Leadership is so appalling at DXC (just read the articles available online about the CEO), many that worked for him already left, that they only have themselves to blame.
When the day comes when we actually calculate the time spent on work, instead of talk by the cooler, lack of effort upfront resulting in repeat work and all the other nonsense that result in wasted time...
I will continue with 25 hours per week or even less. Still am able to produce more than the low paid joe with no experience, high talk and not enough grey matter to realize that DXC is a "road to nowhere" but still come and join here. Oh, I understand... they are not really good enough to get a job at a different company that actually evaluates output besides the hours !
@Z2JeAjG-1rcv Tell me how many hours do you put on your time sheet. If it's 40 hours instead of 25 then your lying to the company and that is a valid reason why you will be fired for cause. If you only put in 25 hours on your timesheet and your manager approves it week in , week out then fine!
I have marketable skills, but I am within a couple years of retirement. I'm good at my job and can do it quickly, I am able to work from home, and the client loves me. Still, I would leave if I wasn't close to retiring. It would be a pain in the keester to find a new job for only a couple of years.
@Z2JeAjG-1rcv I could not have said it better myself. Work smart, not hard.
“if you only work 25 hours a week your cheating the company”. WRONG!! This is where many of you with rusty IQs just don’t get it.
DXC hired me to do a specific job with specific, defined deliverables. We mutually agreed this work is worth $118k annually.
NOTHING is contractually or ethically requiring me to ‘put in my hours’. I deliver on ALL requirements as expected, and have time left over to organize the summer picnic and manage the Giving Campaign. All in ~25 hours per week.
So exactly what do you see wrong with this??? The company is getting what they are paying for. It is irrelevant to DXC if it takes me 25 hours or 55 hours. I am delivering my end of the agreement and they pay the agreed rate. And I’d be a fool to “take on more work”. I’m happy with the load and compensation I have, as is DXC. I will NOT work my self into an early grave.
The sooner you step into the 21st century and adopt the perfectly moral work ethic described above, the happier you will be. But I suspect you’d rather just flame me and continue down your dead end path.
@Z2JeAjG-1doe if you only work 25 hours a week your cheating the company. You should only be paid for 25. Have some integrity. If I knew who you were I'd report you!
Now on why I haven't left yet. Salary 100,000.00+ , 20K goes into the 401K yearly, work close to home, matching 401K, not on call 24 by 7, over 59 years old. It's hard to find work for us older guys , where you work close to home, no being on call and over 3 weeks vacation.
If I find something with good pay, close to home (or working from home), I'll leave. I paid my dues at DXC and prior and will do my job the best I can. And if I am let go , I'll retire, but till then I work
I plan on retiring soon anyway, just along for the ride now. I want to see just how little work I can get away with doing. DXC is a sinking ship, I have a well stocked life raft and a Margarita, I plan on kicking back and watching her go under! :)
I am in the same boat, and I am 55+. Will be laughing at DXC all the way. Sooty, you folks who are slogging. Wake up and leave.
Delivery: you are precisely the person who qualifies for the next round of layoffs. You resort to profanity, and you willingly subject yourself to company abuse by working far more than 40 hours; in effect voluntarily cutting your hourly compensation.
Ponder this: I provide more value to DXC in 25 hours than you do in 55. This is why you will be laid off and I will not. Again, ponder this objectively before you resort to anger and profanity. I just might be the inspiration you do desperately need.
If you only “work” 25 hours a week , please leave or ask for more to do. I am working 45 - 55 hours a week because I have integrity and there is work to do.
You slackers are helping bring down the company and I say F-- you
so many people riding the gravy train ; what a place.
You ask why am I still here? I ask back: why not? I haul in a six figure income, five weeks of vacation, decent health care benefits, and a work MAYBE 25 hours per week.
You are right... severance will never come for me. They will cull the desperate and “hard workers”, but never the apathetic slackers.
So I’m riding this gravy train all the way to retirement. It sure beats working for a living.
You have as many reason as there is people.