Dump X of your crew, DXC Technologies UK told. Hundreds face axe again

Our?

Complete lack of self-awareness saying "our company" to people who about to be chopped...

Business not coming in then?

Perhaps prospective customers are wary of signing up for DXC for the following reasons

1) Who the heck is DXC - as in a change of name does not always work.

2) Why would they sign up if there is some doubt about their ability to exist let alone have staff with the right expertise to deliver to the customer..

3) Anything else you care to think of.

3a) Someone at the top of DXC is looking to depart with a huge pay off in the near future. Get rid, get bonus, get the hell out of town. Shame about the people on the ground. I've been in their shoes (twice)

P Hands is the common factor ?

The Reg used to get lot of inside info about Capita and now gets inside info on DXC - just sayin' :)

I have had the good fortune to work for very good multi-nationals in my day. I should cherish those more. This outfit is a different animal altogether. Barely three months in and the axe falls again - on the same people ! Some of these people are already covering one or two roles that have been left by unfortunate colleagues who have left in previous cuts (maybe that's a failing right there but I get the reasoning for doing it). The strange thing is they tell you it's the role that's impacted. At this rate there will be fewer people working on anything - maybe that's the plan ! Now, I would gladly ask those running the company how we manage to keep the plane flying but they are faceless people. Keyboard accountants. When you get a 'state' visit ( and it's rare) they spout the usual corporate nonsense and throw sweets if you ask a good question, yes, they're entertaining as well. Except it's not funny. Young graduates, young first time mortgage owners cannot plan any sort of future further than six weeks. That's the current time between workforce redundancy cycles. You learn you've escaped one and just weeks later you get the streamlining for growth email. Brutal, immoral, but unfortunately it's their ball. They cry like babies when it get's reported here. Diddums. Tell you what Peter and co. Come visit and tell us all face to face your grand plan, if you have one. We won't hold our breath. PS. Get that you may be busy working on Meg's package.

as a DXCer...

... I can tell you that we are not even able to cover our existing commitments. We are selling capabilities that we simply do not have the staff to cover, either in terms of expertise or numbers.

Services sucks

Services is a tough game.. especially for the bigger multinationals DXC, IBM GTS, Tata, Infosys etc.

- Sales guys promise the world...

- Management of the company that's outsourcing know the service providers do their dirty laundry of taking on staff and then moving their roles off shore (India, China, Brazil - where ever it's cheap).

- The poor delivery guys holding the can are told more each week to do more with less.

There is probably still a place for smaller local service providers in each country, where they can maintain some local / more responsive skill sets. Otherwise buyer beware.....

DXC sounds like a games company to me

Top selling games.

1 Screw the customer

2 Screw the staff

3 Pay the directors

4 Pay the dividend

5 X marks the spot where DXC used to be.

Any company that has a failure mark (X) in it's title gets what it deserves.

Might as well

....whistle DXC...

So when are they going to merge with IBM?

And get some more "synergies"?

Merge with IBM?

Funny you should mention that...

The DXC problem is not a unique one. In the big IT game, revenue is falling at 10% year on year and has been for the last 5 or more years.

This isn't CSC/HPE/IBM/ATOS/Cap G or anyone else uselessness directly, its just a falling market.

What happens when a market of any kind falls apart like this? Mergers follow mergers until less players are left in the game.... Could even shrink down to one player left.

In the meantime, there is a lot of money for investors and directors who can lead this self immolation, asset stripping things down to the final size.

Looks like there is one man able to captain the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean whilst filling the lifeboats with cash. Could be a bright future for him.

Its certainly not a bright future for tens of thousands of IT workers who work in big IT.

Outsourcing IT operations is basically just a way to cover up poor quality IT management at a senior level. The idea is to pass on control and supervision to a service provider who claims to specialise in that sort of thing. The truth is, however, that the service provider is no better at managing systems, demand or staff - but now there’s lawyers and contract managers between service buyer and service provider who’s sole role is to “mitigate”. Not to fix issues, not to prevent issues just to maximise or minimise service credits depending on which side they work for.

Sooner or later the service provider works out that giving a poor service and paying service credits is cheaper than actually having the people with the expertise to run a good service. DXC is certainly there now and I’m sure they’re not alone.

Hey Nick Wilson

We now know you spend your time reading this in between planning your rounds of WFR. What a tool you are to ask us not to publish your BS on here - didn't take long did it? You are just Lawrie's latest UK chief puppet so do as he says, collect your bonus and Foxtrot Oscar...

I have worked for CSC for 20 years and I can remember back in 1999 being proud to work for this company. I used to to be a walking advertisement board, I would tell everyone that I bumped into

" I work for CSC we do the IT for NASA and the American Government!"

Now in 2017 when anybody asks me I,m embarrased to say who I work for! (DXC).

If I was to say anything it would not be that I was utterly ashamed of the company I work for! This company treats it staff aboslutely appalingly!

The last conference call from Nick Wilson was an absolute disgrace!

The two main things to come out of that conf call were that annual pay reviews were now going to be scrapped! And then we were informed that rounds of job cuts will now take place quarterly!

No wonder with news like that that you wouldn,t be surprised to find out that in my area we have had 4 people on long term sick and even 1 member of staff sadly pass away!

Uncerainity leads to unhappiness!! and this constant threat of job losses is leading to an unhappy workforce which is in turn putting peoples health and lives at risk!

The level of staff moral in the UK is currently at 0%!!

The message for DXC is simple! Keep offshoring jobs and in effect you will cease to exist!

Treat your experienced staff with complete disrespect and contempt in effect you will cease to exist!

Send me the letter

Cannot wait for my redundancy offer from Dixie. The sooner the better please.

and another one going...

I've just been talking to a family member who has worked for HP for many years (now DXC) and he told me morale is at rock bottom and the company has been slipping down the greasy pole for years. He's going to apply for voluntary redundancy. He used to be proud of HP and his job there, but when he told me today he's leaving "DXC" I had to query who they were as I'd never heard of them. He said it doesn't stand for anything, its just marketing hype. He told me things have been going poorly for several years with many roles outsourced to India with just a few Brits left to act as a UK "face" and liaise between the largely Indian workforce and the UK customers. Sounds like he'll be happier out of it anyway.

Sure a merger...

Reminds me when the company I worked for merged with another. Over the course of a couple of years all the sites belonging to my company closed, none of the site of the other company did.

I wonder who owned the sites that are being closed this round belonged to before the "merger".

Offshore everything

As an ex CSC employee, I can say it does not surprise me. A company run by bean counters with no interest in what the company does.

Suggest you can improve efficiency reduce cost and improve quality with automation and you get slapped down and worked farmed out to India where it is hand cranked by somebody with 6 months experience with a grandiose title of principle IT director.

It seems as though they are trying to run off the UK business.

Customers are walking away from DXC because of poor service because the staff are either leaving or so overworked they can't cope.

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up with just one or two 'profitable' accounts serviced completely by an offshore workforce and a couple of Execs sat in their ivory tower counting their bonuses!!

To TEH Cloud

For those of us unlucky enough to be DXC Customers, the nice byproduct is the service being that shoddy, we're already getting budgets for putting stuff in the Cloud.

Just DXC accelerating their own inevitable demise as CSP kills the MSP.

DXC is a TLA for

Double Crossing Company/Corporate/Cowards *

* Exchange for words of your choice.

Healthcare 'Vertical' will be sold

As DXC are not actively selling Lorenzo and there are certainly no takers post RPA and with the great white elephants of Eire, N Ireland, Norway and lets not forget ANZ not coming up trumps the healthcare sector will either be sold off wholesale or vast swathes of Healthcare employee's will be axed. Maybe a few support roles will be spared, but certainly no requirements for deployment, project management, product or testing teams moving forward.

Likely bidders, Epic, Allscripts, Intersystems or for a lol SystemC.....