ex DXCer who is fully aware the BAE account is going through a major reshuffle as part of contract changes
whats the latest there?
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Coming up 2 years retired, and loving it. I still wonder how the bae contract is going, hence have a nosey on here now and then. Its good that BAe have extended the contract for 5yrs with Dxc to deliver the AI workplace. Last I heard desktop was going out to computacenter or cap gemini. I enjoyed my time there only because of my work colleagues. Had no pay rise for 10 years, then they gave me 4% after I got accepted for redundancy. Honestly you couldn't script it! First thing I did once retired was give myself a huge pay rise. And now in retirement im actually more productive than I was at work. My advise is keep taking the money and count down the days to retirement. You'll be there before you know it. My other take away from my time at dxc is a plastic duck and a pen.
All the best.
@xj I gave up on this account quite some time back. There's no real work to be done. I'm not trying to justify a pay rise, or get a new job. If they want to pay me to do absolutely nothing from one week to the next whilst others pretend to be busy then carry on. I'm not useless, I'm just not needed. The skillset I did have that the account wanted hasn't been used for so long it's hard to justify it still being on my CV. But for the record just like most on the account - next step retirement - so pay me to stay or pay me to go. I won't be just quitting.
@p3 I don't agree with more than half the stuff we do at DXC but you can easily spin your role into positives. If you need to lie about it then it sounds like you really are useless at your job. It might be worth you sticking with DXC.
Again, I'm only basing my opinion on what you commented here but if that's anything to go by then an interview with you sounds like it would be a car crash.
@n0 Sure lie your way in and pretend we actually make a valuable contribution to the clients services.
Anyone who's worked with DXC before knows the reality. We only do what we're asked. Delay everything with paperwork. Double and redouble quotes.
Although I've been at it so long I'm not sure who invented all this paperwork. Both sides blame the other!!
@dc this is a you problem. You clearly don't interview well if all you can take from your time working at BAE is negatives like this. Everything you mentioned could be used as a positive but you're immediately spinning it as a negative.
@h1 I feel DXC is fu--ing my career up as well.
This is by design - to F*ck you up
"This account has destroyed my career.
When you go to an interview they ask what you've achieved and what value you contribute in your current role.
It soon comes out that your day is spent attending status meetings and endlessly rewriting documents, or aka mucking about. It takes months just to change a few lines of code, and weeks for a few characters in a settings file.
They ask how you'd improve it all. Then question why haven't you then."
Are BAE’s own IT staff being TUPE’d out to the new suppliers?
@OP Going well https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bae-systems-cyberattack-disrupts-us-federal-court-operations/
This account has destroyed my career.
When you go to an interview they ask what you've achieved and what value you contribute in your current role.
It soon comes out that your day is spent attending status meetings and endlessly rewriting documents, or aka mucking about. It takes months just to change a few lines of code, and weeks for a few characters in a settings file.
They ask how you'd improve it all. Then question why haven't you then.
Bae are holding us all here on false pretenses and DXC won't reallocated good staff where their skill can be utilised.
My job could be done by a part time monkey. But bae insists on dedicate and often duplicate resources for each project.
They pay, it doesn't justify a pay rise, DXC love it. Money for nothing!!!
I assume DXC retained its hosting contract on the basis that it was cheaper & easier for BAE compared to having to migrate to another provider when you've got decades of legacy kit that have been set up for specific endpoints / IPs in DXC managed datacenters
It's cheaper for BAE to lease hardware from DXC than deal with upfront costs
All the work is with the other suppliers already in all but name. DXC just sit about incase we're needed. It's boring as, but for some reason we've not been cut loose. Too scared, or the cost of having that insurance is inconsequential I don't know. It's stupid. We're paid only to be available. There's noise that sounds like work, but I can't see any being done, and I know I've not done anything in months. Roll on redundancy.
We are all patching windows 2003 successfully. Denzil greyhound is helping us reach those lofty goals.
Please come back and join us, we badly need experienced people like you.