Let me be the first to say I'm not. I'm doing what has to be done. That's it. I used to care, go above and beyond, but I got smarter since then. Why bend over backwards for a company that couldn't care less about me?
How many others are doing the same? Just going through the motions?
One of anons nailed what I started doing. You pay me for 37.5hrs a week, no more, and if you want more, you better bet your behind that I'm taking it out of lunch or coming in late. People leave and projects and accounts lose that tribal knowledge and relationships and then the house of cards collapse....ie the share price slip and ratings.
Another nailed the whole, "your dept has 25, make it 20, here is who leaves" from levels above with no regard to skills or assignments and then projects go infrared and money "appears" for fixing it. Mangers scramble to save projects by reassigning and leveraging people who have never touched the systems before. Doesn't sound like a solid business model to me, but I don't have a steak cutter either.
I in the Americas and love my client, so I do good work for them, but I'm also negotiating with them to come work for them and dump DXC.
The movie 'Office Space' has never been more true:
"You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care"
"It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my a-- off and DXC ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now."
That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."
It also doesn't help when the local management limits the amount of vacation hours you can take (all out of "fairness"). They also limit the amount of PTO (sick) time we can take. We can only take a certain number of hours during a rolling amount of months or we will be given a verbal warning or written up. This means we can only actually use 48 hours out of the 80 hours the company gives us! (NOTE: my department and my sister department are FORBIDDEN from working from home ... well, except for management of course!)
Key accounts with entire teams applying to leave , no one wants to be part of this anymore.
i got pushed out the door and I am actually happy about that, because of I had to go anyway so at least I get some tiny severance package. will the project survive? I think not since most are sent home and the picks were obviously done by some guy high above, without a clue of who is doing what, and who is critical to the project. If it crashes though it will only be the natural selection of the fittest, with a corporation that took a short term dead end trajectory.
When you get no raise at all, year after year, and lose purchasing power while expected more and more work, you quickly go into minimum output mode.
wen the plan is to buy startups , fire most the workers, and milk current customer contracts until they leave unsatisfied, and then repeat with new startups, it cant go on forever...
The CEO is only looking after himself and bagging millions and millions of pounds - asset stripping the company to bits and other ones that he acquire and try to merge them into parent DXC.
$$ comes first, service and clients + employees way down his priorities
Echo that, couldn't be arsed after years of going above & beyond ....this company is rudderless, no vision, CEO is a one trick pony, my hedge is short the stock, sad but true,
Can a employee fight this lay off
I joined DXC. I wasn’t an ex CSC or HPE employee. During my first few weeks I was really shocked that people were doing ‘just enough’ and it worried me. What had I done? I joined an organisation of lazy jobsworths, clocking on at 9, hour for lunch and clocking off at 5. I am no longer shocked. I understand why. It’s awful working for DXC. Other than to say that I have met some really clever and talented people, I have nothing good to say about the organisation.
Nope, Just collecting a paycheck at this point and trying to stay above the waterline as the ship sinks.
I personally show up, plug into my podcasts and do the minimum amount of work needed on a daily basis. I don't go above-and-beyond any longer and once I step foot outside at the end of the day I don't think about that place until I arrive the next day. I continue to search for another job and dream about the day I can dance on the ashes of what use to be DXC.
I work in a very small team, and we get recurring clients and new clients for short term projects. They're very happy with what we deliver but it is only because we have complete autonomy on what we deliver. I'm completely fine with it.
Because of this, what it boils down to, I use my happy clients as leverage to exploit senior Management to get what I want; salary raises, resources for the team, training, you name it.
That is the tragedy of this company. Nepotism at it's very finest. I've to manipulate key people to get what I want, rather than getting rewarded for the hard work me and all of you are putting out. Unfortunately, it's the way it is at DXC and ultimately, I'm not complaining anymore.
Laphen avoided prosecution by a quick retirement leaving SEC to fine CSC a massive amount for misrepresentation on the SEC filings and a lesson for the industry to learn a lesson on how it is not a good idea to hide losses from the SEC.
Lawrie (another 'L') told shareholders in both a report and a 2018 meeting that they would see growth and dividends that were bigger than a big thing. He then thanked them for attending before promptly and severely cutting staff in both Sales and Delivery. This directly had an impact on both DXC sales and revenue following his actions taken 'without reasonable cause'. Understandably, the shareholders were not too happy. Would you be if your local bank managed promised your money will be safe in the local bank with untold dividends if you invest even more, then went around setting fire to the place?
As if adding salt to the wounds, Lawrie then riffed the US lead and the shares took a massive tumble. It was as if wreckless behaviour was there to show who was in charge rather than to benefit the company, staff (like they ever mattered) and shareholders.
2019 and the share price is below $50 and continuing to decline. The dead-cat bounce isn't there either. I think it really is dead this time.
I half expect Mike to buy up a load of shares to make the residual once seem worth more. But once the cat is dead, what can you do?
Fast forward ahead.
I think in the future, you won't need to go to DXC and pay expensive amounts of money. You'll be able to sit down at your PC and visit amazon and provision your own infrastructure and platform as a service, scale up as much elastic storage as your business desires, add your endpoint security and detection as you need, install as many VDI's as you need, SQL Databses and select all your supply chain, ERP HR and payroll packages and even your own websites and branding all configured. Then go to checkout and...oh wait.
You might get a retro podcast offer:
Mike Lawrie reading his autobiography "The rise and fall of DXC and my part in its downfall" and "Was it just a load of Bionix?" M Lawrie.
It's a joke, and has been since ML took over CSC.
Yes I normally only do what i have to. I try to help my friends if they ask. I am done working more than my 40 hours a week. I am done with late nights and early mornings. No pay raise in years, great reviews and still not a dam thing. The outsourcing of my job function to our vendors and the thinking every Thursday will be my last.
I am done with being on call 24 by 7, working nights or weekends. I am over 58 and in the US. It's not easy to find a job close to home anymore, so I stay but don't care anymore.
Oh and I should add that I've been CSC for a while...pre Mikey.
When Mikey rolled into town, most imagined that whilst there would be painful restructuring to fix Laphen's mistakes, it would last a period of time, then we would be back to stability, normality and growth.
Well, its not been like that. Its just endless, relentless grinding down of people and morale. All stick, no carrot. Watching the company fail harder and harder whilst a handful chink champagne glasses and shout about what a wonderful job they are doing are how the company is an industry leader and destined for a shiny future.
When is this shiny future coming Mikey? All you have done is shed revenue, causes chaos and p1ss off clients to the point at which our name is mud.
Yet you just grin your stupid grin and say "everything is fantastic".
I guess it probably is for you.
One thing I do have sadly tons of evidence of is that it doesn't matter if you are a 100 hour a week unpaid OT, graded a 1 performer, paid below market rate, working on something essential that nobody else can do for a client account that is turning in vast percentages of profit..... you are still just as likely as anyone else to take a bullet... and if you don't today, never receive raise and at some point will get axed in the next round of ideological fuelled, illogical, self immolating cuts that exist purely to allow a handful to get multi-million dollar bonuses based on ridiculous metrics of "success".
In that light, you'd have to be stupid to want to make any effort wouldn't you?