Posts by Gareth Douglas

DXC Technology warns techies that all travel MUST now be authorised

I don't think anyone knows this, including DXC management. I reckon it will be Friday, to have it done before month end. What a glorious summer could be had, with garden leave kicking in from next week. I have everything crossed XXXXX

Google Pay tells Euro users it has ditched UK for Ireland ahead of Brexit

Re: For Google, Brexit makes Eire a golden opportunity

Lovely story. Except EU is moving to a model of IT service companies paying tax on profits based on the country in which the service is utilised, as opposed to where the Org is headquartered. The process of moving to that model is in full swing. BTW it's not just internet-based advertising and sales Orgs like Google moving across the Irish channel, plenty of other financial/pharma and other industries want to ensure a presence in the EU.

Yummy yummy

Google, Amazon, Facebook and a huge swathe of pharma, financial and other tech Orgs are all ramping up their data centres and other capacities in Ireland, with it being the only native-English speaking country left in Europe & retaining Customs & GDPR alignment with EU after Brexit. Ironically for us Irish, it's only bricks and mortar residential housing in Dublin region which could scuttle our runaway exchequer returns and employment levels. Great time to be working in IT here, filling our boots we are. Cheers mates!!

That Saudi oil and gas plant that got hacked. You'll never guess who could... OK, it's Russia

Absolutely spot on with that comment. Stuxnet is the gift that keeps on giving

DXC Tech asks staff to profile their skills

Maybe the best approach if you are aching for VR is to not fill in the SABA questionnaire?

That's bound to raise a red flag to Joe Doherty, Peter Hands & co, right? I mean how useful can this idiot be if he cannot even fill in our simple skillz form?

Here's hoping...

DXC: Hands up in customer support – who wants redundo?

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Pretty please?

Google India must pay back-taxes on $225m after cheekily funneling cash through Ireland

If your only concern in life is to ensure that wealthy share-holders get richer while workers and the other 95% of people who are not share-holders get a little bit poorer through having to pay more tax to make up for the corporate profit-takers, you have a sad outlook my friend.

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

Send me the letter

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

Man facing $17.5m HPE fraud case has contempt sentence cut by Court of Appeal

If he such a tyrant, how come he is only in clink for Contempt of court? Where are the fraud charges?

DXC Technology warns staff of multiple office closures

Re: They are hiring foreign workers.

It is legal to replace a worker who takes VOLUNTARY redundancy, as their role is not being made redundant in this case. It certainly is not legal or ethical to enforce COMPULSORY redundancy on people and then replace them with cheaper imports.. When UK MPs are calling out greedy excesses of capitalism in the house of commons and the leadership of the company or its philosophy has not changed, you would not be in the least surprised to hear of such developments.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/06/csc_hpe/

DXC Technology looks to lighten the payroll six weeks after launch

WFR is being touted to a department in my workplace, where a new member of staff was hired only last month. IF nobody volunteers for the WFR, a compulsory redundancy will take place and I bet it wont be the newest (aka cheapest) member of staff to get the bullet.

RBS is to lay off 92 UK techies and outsource jobs to India – reports

Re: We've been here before

Accountability for actions in a bank? Are you nuts?

Irish Stripe techie denied entry to US – for having wrong stamp in passport

Quote: "Collison's post highlights the fact that the Stripe employee is an Irish citizen. But were you to assume the individual in question is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white man, you might be mistaken"

Why would you assume an Irish man has blond hair and blue eyes? Are you mixing us up with Sweden?

Try red hair and freckles if you like pigeon-holing national appearances!

COP BLOCKED: Uber app thwarted arrests of its drivers by fooling police with 'ghost cars'

It stands to reason that you need to be tough, rough around the edges and probably goal-driven / task oriented to drive a taxi - as well as having a neck like a jockey's b0ll0x when dealing with whatever sits behind you.

Seems logical that the replacement of this industry's modus operandi should be conducted by those of a highly matched skill set.

How average is your sex life?

World Stats Day

Well well, "World Statistics Day", eh? What are the odds?