Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Do these kids know what they're getting themselves into?

I remember they fired a load of folk who supported and achieved goals for the sustainability programme because DXC could no longer sustain them!

I am sure we're all very sceptical about the 3 millions training hours, given that most training was rejected in the past year unless it was absolutely critical, lives depended on it, the country economy wouldn't survive without it and you could get it approved through 5 levels. I think the total training hours was a summation of all the time we all spent on workday, e-tes, myTime and Snow trying to get the things to work. Get rid of those systems and you'd halve your carbon footprint overnight.

We introduced 1,700 young people to the excitement of job insecurity, no raises, no recognition but the promise of a career path, like that wrong turn in the forest, covered in bear-trapping restrictive policies they've yet to put their foot in and trigger.

Pay and growth are usually the most important items for the young "kids" (to use Mikey's colloquialism) and they will often ask their colleagues about such fantasies or seek advice on here. Of course, because the long-stay staff have been lucky enough to have benefited from Mike's '3 million hours of training', they can confidently respond with the DXC branded client language toolkit of "Erm" or "Er..." before responding with the best career advice you'll ever likely to here in there or on here: "if you want career progression your best bet is through the door you just came in through."

Most of us visiting this forum do so, to watch the company's dying 3rd act of this 3 act play. The drama is tense and the script is constantly being updated to make the future policy changes even funnier. We like to watch how the company promotes all its missteps as 'challenges' and its reductions as 'opportunities for new synergies' and its lack of strategic or operational planning and financial mis-management as if its all a giant game of monopoly where all the workers are in crowded in lo-cost jails watching Mikey the boot running round the global board building hotels on quicksand.

I am amazed the stage scenery hasn't collapsed all around Mike, leaving an audience of shocked stakeholders, covered in dust and muck and wondering: "So wait, what just happened? Where's he gone? What do you mean he's retired?"

Posted by @PfIr6Hm-odp.

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Post ID: @OP+PhmFt4E

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Oh there is training, but its all on your own time and is boring video based. No interactive class room training.

When you actually have work that keeps you busy 40 , 50 or 60 hours a week, it's very hard to get training time in.

Give us a week , of only training during normal working hours. When my shift ends (which can 10, 12+ hours on any given day, then I am DONE!

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Post ID: @3fkj+PhmFt4E

Shocked stockholders?

I think not. They are enjoying the fires built higher with the corpses of the WFR'ed.

They've never had it so good - two massive pay days in the last 2 years and a stock that's beating pretty much any other across Wall Street.

Are they stupid enough to not know this is a pump and dump? Of course not. They are cheering on the pumping and ready to drop it like its hot when the time comes. Their carpetbag of cash then rolls on to the next stock.

So, no, stockholders are not on your side.

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Post ID: @2twn+PhmFt4E

@PhmFt4E-tpk Same here, but I left on VR earlier this year and I know that the good times are still here, all the young uns need to do is get a bit of experience then join a smaller company - definately NOT an outsourcer and the good times will be there

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Post ID: @1atu+PhmFt4E

Mike is not a leader. He's just saving his stupid fat arse.

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Post ID: @1jyd+PhmFt4E

I have been in workforce since the 80s and i find myself telling the young ones that it never used to be this bad. That they missed the good times when companies were more generous. Are all companies this mean spirited and miserly.

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Post ID: @tpk+PhmFt4E

Great post - but it's only when you're out of it that things become crystal clear, we knew it when we were there at the coalface, but had to carry on until we all got what we wanted out of it, (paid rents and mortgages put kids through school etc).

DXC and all it's previous incarnations have been bad for nearly a decade, lots of the Corporates are the same, and I fear the kids will never have it as good as we did back in the day, we couldn't or wouldn't stick together to stop the rot and race to the bottom, what chance do a cohort of kids stand.

I feel sorry fir all those still having to tolerate the daily bull crap I here that they are exposed to.

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Post ID: @etw+PhmFt4E

Good post

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