The only really lucky one was Meg. Blind of any rational ability to recognize what people are really needing and would buy from a technology leading company it seems she has found somebody who is willing to take over this old wreck and also pay for it! Sometimes a blind chicken finds also a corn. But what’s about the people in the wreck? It seems one old wreck owner wanted to buy a second one! Just to get some parts for his first. Same leading people – same methods – same processes. No vision. Replacing people by cheaper people is too simple to be successful. Sorry - but for what have these people got a degree? But most of the cases the real acting works are NOT cheaper! And nobody will see that! It became a common practice to let small companies do the real work for the customer. With a good fix price at the first glance. Our internal hourly rate is far away from what we get for salary. That’s because of our fat infrastructure and our organization. So 50-75% of our internal rate is for “overhead”. But external companies who are doing our work now for a lesser hourly rate (by the way much higher as you will find on your payroll) do not spend 50%-75% of their hourly rate to our organization! What happens? Correct! A downward spiral begins. Costs of overhead will stay. So the company “taxes” its own workers with a higher overhead rate. Because no one else is here to pay for it! And the winner is… Right. Let’s found also an external company! You will be the winner – as long as nobody can really calculate at the company you are milking.
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I did some quick google and intranet queries on DXC last names on this past week and boy i see a lot of nepotism. Odd father, son, daughter, nephew, neice names appear on the query. Sad those folks can't sell themselves for a job that the released employees had to sell and bird dog once for. Families have been truly displaced by greed, nepotism and selfishness. Also, jobs are very abundant and very available when you do a simple query on available positions overseas. Jobs of all sorts from junior to very senior positions. Oh well we are living in different times.
Bloat abounds at DXC already. With all the levels of Executive management, its amazing that anything gets done. Ohh yeah, thats right, not much gets done up there. The front line employee does all the work trying to please the customer, yet the Execs take all the credit. Yeah, lets see them dump the good workers, the people with the knowledge and the confidence of the customers, and drop in off-shore resources. Ohh wait, I have seen that, and it pissed off many a customer who decided to not renew contracts OR renew with significant reductions.
If anything, management needs to be slimmed down. Save some money there, apply it to the workers so they can keep skills up, learn new skills, and actually have a raise every so often (like every year to keep up with the cost of living).
I bit rambling but I agree, I knew this was going to happen when Meg took over - you only had to look at what she did at eBay.