Outgoing HPE workers stripped of gym cards and cushy remnants HPE is ensuring that no unpleasant memories linger for Enterprise Services staff being booted to DXC Technology by informing them they are no longer entitled to membership to the employee discount scheme. In a mail to the great unwashed, HPE UK chief of staff Amanda Hill, said the firm is making "adjustments to the various …
DXC is just a parking spot on Mercury and that these jobs are soon to vapourise as it spins on its axis?
It would not surprise me to see reports that DXC is 'rightsizing' before the end of Spring.
HP is really taking the sauce these days and it saddens me as I spent 15 good years there before senior management started F*****g the company.
AC for obvious reasons.
DXC is just a parking spot on Mercury and that these jobs are soon to vapourise as it spins on its axis?
I hate to disappoint you, but Mercury is tidal locked. You have a choice of being permanently in frozen hell or boiling hell. Even if there is middle ground it stays as a limbo year-round. Either one of these is an apt description as far as the temporary parking spots of any personnel transferred from HP.
Technically speaking, Mercury is tidally locked to the Sun. However, it is not the familiar 1:1 tidal lock (as seen e. g. for the Moon rotation), but rather a 3:2 resonance, making each day last exactly two years.
"Several insiders told us that Nefkens reassuringly referred to employees as "inventory". This is a new one on El Reg, though staff said at least they were not branded as consumables."
They have, however, been branded as Non-Genuine HP Employees, and will not work in any current HP Office after the latest meatware updates were applied.
I appreciate that the poor HPE bods aren't being made redundant (yet), but it's possibly wise not to get tooooo involved with not-work activities at a company.
Many years ago I worked for a large insurance company that decided to reduce the size of the IT department. There were some volunteers (including me) but also some compulsory departures. Bad enough to lose a well-paid job you might say, but there's more...at least one of my involuntarily departing ex-colleagues had worked for the company since leaving school. He'd married one of the women in the punch-room, and they had happy children. Who used the Company playgroup and after-school/holiday club. Most of their social life revolved around a group of friends who also worked for the company. He played sport for the company and used the company Gym and Sports Centre regularly.
Did he keep those benefits? Of course not. Not just losing a job, but effectively losing many, many aspects of everyday life. I was lucky. I think I visited the Sports Club about twice!
"Most of their social life revolved around a group of friends who also worked for the company
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Not just losing a job, but effectively losing many, many aspects of everyday life."
Did that in my early career and had a lot of good fun.
Then came the relocation, next came the redundancies. A whole bunch of decent folks split from friends and family "back home", then dumped on.
I was careful after that experience to keep my social life separate from work life.
I knew an insurance\finance company that had moved from London down the M3. A lot of the staff we're initially quite chuffed at the susbsidised mortgages and 'rural' house prices.
Then they realised how tight the golden handcuffs were. If they sold up they would have to downsize. If they changed jobs they would have to sell up and downsize. Followed by, surprise surprise, Bonuses and Pay rises were not as 'generous' as central London cos of local market conditions ie no competition.
We get gym membership that is more expensive than if you approach the gym direct.
We get a car discount that offers less than if you went to the dealership yourself and told them it's to expensive.
We can buy IT kit for a higher price than buying from most online retailers.
And errrr thats it.So if you had signed up and took these offers up, you'd be better of losing them.
Reminds me of some of the mailings I used to get from National Union of Teachers. They offered loans from "selected" loan companies that were specially arranged for us to have higher interest rates than the bank. Discount holidays that costed more than the local travel agents, insurance polices with poorer payouts than..... And so on. You get the idea.
"We can buy IT kit for a higher price than buying from most online retailers."
This. Of course we're going to be lean, inexpensive and agile. And, just to make sure that we are, we are going to lock ourselves into "synergistic relationships" with other companies that are actually so cumbersome and expensive that we would have looked good compared to them if we hadn't locked our ankles together.
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"it will all end in tears ... except for Meg who will trundle off into the distance with her mega millions payoff"
A truly horrible thought. When she last had a bash at politics she spent her own millions. Whitman spent $144 million from her own personal funds on her campaign for California Governor
By accepting a pay cut, you might become an unwilling contributor to her next campaign.
I've found my social life with HPE colleagues has got far better since leaving. Went out for a pint with a couple of blokes off my 1986 Cobol course and some other ex-colleagues only a couple of weeks ago.
I suppose the fact we all got shafted by Shitman and Turd over a period of about 6 years, but remained resident in the same town, means we can just be mates without the millstone of working for that doomed organisation hanging from our necks.
And at least we got our payoffs before Lawrie latches on to IBM gettig away with statutary minimum.
With 17 yrs service and a strong desire to leave the basketcase of hpe, i am just praying that DXC honour the same level of redundancy payments. It will make my choice to hang for a few more years seem pointless if they cut back to statutory minimum. Whitman trousered $18M last year but employees were not worthy of a pay rise? Seems the wrong way round to me.
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