Posts by Miss Lincolnshire 191 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2010
Can't migrate anything since Microsoft turned off additional cloud resources.
Busying myself going through all the slide packs that are used to persuade people to move to Cloud and removing all references to "limitless resources" "ramping up and down", "turning machines off when not busy and back on again when you want them"....
The "proles" is a bit chippy isn't it?
Don't know about your circumstances but I was a permanent employee for over 30 years until I was made redundant for being too grey and expensive, I opted to contract because I wasn't going to allow myself to being thrall to a shitehawk outsourcer again and I accept the risks and benefits that go with that choice.
If you promise to be more polite I will let you have a go in my imaginary helicopter or Ferrari. Perhaps you could book some paid annual leave or even take a paid sickie for the occasion. My international supermodel girlfriend is, sadly, not included in the offer.
£3k for me, but more to get my daughter one too It's an Australian company.
They need to gather his birth certificate (was Poland now Belarus) and his RAF record and his marriage certificate then my mother's and my birth and marriage certificates and my daughter's birth certificate. Then translate all that and the application forms into Polish, apply via a Polish agent, pay fees etc
Outside of IR35 CT is payable on profits after expenses such as mileage, accommodation etc are deducted. Within IR35 those expenses are not allowable and therefore that proportion of income that was previously untaxed would be taxed.
i.e at present I'm outside IR35 in the public sector and legitimately draw about £500 a month in mileage from my company That £500 is not subject to CT. Under IR35 the £500 would be treated as salary and subject to income tax and NI. Same would apply were I stopping in hotels and paying for those out of the day rate.
I believe that that is where some, if not all, of the additional % comes from.
"It's completely unnecessary. There is a quid pro quo already – contractors don't pay National Insurance contributions but then they don't get a state pension........ so we don't need this legislation. "
Not true. You get a notional NI credit if you pay yourself a salary equivalent to the tax free allowance. This counts towards your state pension.
..... bang on. There is no way this work should be going to forriners. We build the finest capacitors and valves in the world and our bakelite insulators are second to none.
As for the security issues? I've never heard so much nonsense, Who cares if they copy our data? They won't make sense of it, they all talk Chinese.
Be interested to see El Reg's take on this article of recent news
https://www.contractoruk.com/news/0014347labour_surprise_pledge_scrap_ir35_reform_april_2020.html
Lib Dems said something similar. Time for the Nasty Party to match it?
The simple reality is HMRC are not resourced to enforce it anyway. How many staff are qualified to legally and reliably interpret every single contract and SOW without risk of being oberwholmed by appeals?
"The latest measure is hardly surprising, given that DXC is currently in the throes of a major redundancy programme."
When I left HPE ES (DXC being its sickly child) we had had 26 out of the previous 28 quarters where the company had exited large numbers of people as they were "....currently in the throes of a major redundancy programme".
DXC is always in the throes of a major redundancy programme. The latest measure is hardly surprising because it is the complete norm.
I left this abortion of a company two years ago but instead of feeling sorry for myself I got my head down to get contract work.
I've got all but a month's worth of my payoff in the bank and in my pension and I've been fortunate enough to have contracted continuously which builds on that. You'll be amazed how quickly the Stockholm Syndrome dies away when you are working in a role outside of DXC.
If they send you the black spot, just get your head down and apply for jobs or contracts and you'll be fine. It is absolutely all about ageism but to be honest I don't care. Working for them was destroying me intellectually.
This is a simple case of a gutless employee that was quite happy to screw over thousands of his subordinates but goes mardy when it's done to him.
Fuck him, Lawrie, Whitman, Hurd, Nick Wilson and the many other senior HPE ES "leaders" that were quite happy to do it to their own staff before the sell out to CSC
It's very difficult to feel any sympathy for Hilton, he knew exactly what he was getting involved in when he had that dinner with Lawrie and Mason.
I can't think of a company I want to work for less than DXC, I just feel sorry for former colleagues that have that misfortune to deal with.
I often sat very close to a HPE ES (now DXC) HR team at Fullwood in Preston
The conversations they would have were remarkably indiscrete and all within earshot of people that could well come into scope for their axe. I lost count of the number of times I heard laughter when they were discussing the numbers for a particular round of layoffs or callous comments about how individuals had reacted. It was not unknown to overhear individual payoffs being discussed along with inappropriate commentary as to how deserved they were.
Fortunately most of them were disposed of in the same casual way. What goes around come around.
Are these chancers, CSC, still going?
Why would anyone go tho DXC for AWS services when you can buy directly from Amazon without the added complication of Mike Laurie charging top dollar while screwing back the labour supporting you
Plenty of better services from OVH, Amazon on the market and the migration technology is virtually identical wherever you go.
They tell you you get an extra 15% but 15% of a crap wage is still crap money. My advice is to get a real job then join the reserve if you fancy blatting a few rounds off occasionally.
I don't get the point of the article. The Army has been recruiting fat and wheezy Combat Fitness Test bifs for years. 1 in 9 of headcount. They're called the Royal Logistics Corps.
I left HPE at the end of March 17 and dived straight into the market. I started a contract three weeks later and have just been extended again until October. Payoff is in the bank and in my pension. the opportunities are there.
Grasp the WFR package while it is still there and while having HP on your CV still counts for something. There are far better places to work than where you are now..
I'm afraid ex CSCers are sunk, Lawrie wrecked your reputation long ago,
HP should have done their due diligence instead of stampeding in as usual. HP have a history of over paying for things and then having to write off huge sums later. EDS is another example.
Who wouldn't look to take advantage of negligent, ego driven hubrists like Apotheker, Hurd and Whitman when they've made a living out of taking advantage out of others.
Nick Wilson is a one trick pony. Eeeyore. He thinks he is straight talking, inspirational and effective. The reality is he has the motivational skills of Vince Cable and the gravitas of SpongeBob Squarepants.
His trademark tossing of chocolates and sweets at people who ask questions in town halls has to be the most patronising and divisive tactic I've ever witnessed. That and his announcement in Telford the once that he disagreed with the latest round of redundancies because they weren't aggressive enough.
.......and the first thing the user will have to do is enable location tracking. That will task a Borders Agency drone to track and dispose of Johnny Foreigner at their leisure.
First incursion on UK territory = tasered, netted, handcuffed and despatched quivering to Calais.
Second incursion on UK territory = Hellfire
If you're not local there's nothing for you here We don't want foreigners stealing the precious things do we?
.................Johnny Foreigner still hasn't realised that we are British, exceptional and better than them.
It's almost as though we are a medium sized nation under the mistaken impression that we are a big nation that gets to be in charge of everything isn't it?
Who'd have guessed?
Why am I a contractor?
Because I and my colleagues put up with being treated badly by a large American outsourcer for far too long and I have no intention of being in that position again.
Do I take the piss tax wise? No.
Do I drive a Porsche? No, I've got a very nice mid range KIA SUV
Do I just want to get on with earning a living and be able to retire at a reasonable time? Yes
If HMRC want me to pay them as an employee then I am happy to do so but in return I expect the same protections and benefits
We all know the whole thing was about getting rid of the older and more expensive staff but I couldn't care less anymore. I got my payoff money along with nice lump sum AVC and I went straight into contract work with a far more pleasant company.
The fact is that working away from HP/HPE/DXC is far less stressful than staying. Life is too short to dwell on the motives of the scumbag leadership you left behind.
I'd sooner my daughter started her own hairdressing or dog grooming business than followed me into IT
There is no training, reward or career left in this commoditised and under appreciated industry any longer. Why "train" in an ICT Apprenticeship when she could get a real skill that you can't offshore or bluff with younger apprentices?
30 years ago I had a rifle whose cocking handle could open beer bottles and a newly issued bivvy bag and maggot that kept me warm and dry. The chicken curry in the 24 hour packs was packed with meat and I could overdose on Spangles at will. We also had twice as many troops as we have now. In the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe I'd have been dead in a German ditch within seven hours, most likely as a result of a blood agent based chemical attack. But we were ok and saw the Berlin Wall crumble.
Race forward to 2018 and perhaps if we hadn't got complacent and then pissed several £billion up the wall on white elephant aircraft carriers to strut around the globe pretending we are still a world power then we'd be able to field a decent sized land force. It's all very well wondering how we combat cyber attacks but as it stands we haven't got enough troops to supply the three Corps you need to even call yourself an Army.
Did you seriously think he was going to stay beyond the first allocation of executive bonuses and share options? He was Whitman's bagman, the courier designated to hand HPE ES over to the lunatic asylum and then get the hell out.
Job done as far as Nefken's is concerned.
Despite my having spent the previous 12 years travelling the length and breadth of the UK pretty much full time I was marked 3 out of 5 for flexibility to manipulate me into the score they wanted.
I was marked by an L4 that had met me twice. It's all a charade. The only thing that's real is the bunce
Having gone prior to the despotic reign of CSC's Mike Lawrie being extended to former HPE ES colleagues I no longer have any interest in this car crash company aside from regular checks that they haven't yet stolen my pension pot.
The harsh truth is that no-one from HPE ES has had a formal performance review in almost two years. That makes any basis for the quarterly WFR (Redundancy) scoring decidedly dodgy. So all they really have to backup that particular mechanism for justifying what McKinsey already decided is the skills database that they are so keen on ensuring everyone completes.
Complete the database and complete your own justification for redundancy.
As an ex HPE ES staffer, now Contractor, with my payoff neatly stashed I rarely miss an opportunity to stick the boot in.
The saddest thing is I don't even need to lie or exaggerate. Just tell the truth about how this appalling company operates.
The creation of DXC was HPE & CSC's way of turning themselves from Windscale into Sellafield. A fresh start. Unfortunately all they've achieved is Chernobyl.
Eons ago, when I was a Cobol programmer for the then Inland Revenue, my team leader raised a ticket on his brand new PC because the cursor on his VME portal window had disappeared so he was unable to logon to the Dev machine with a frozen screen.
Three days of support later a junior colleague, fresh out of training, casually picked up the boss's mouse, went to the Clock icon, right clicked, un-ticked "always on top" and voila!
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