[Magdalen] Interesting Times

[Grace Cangialosi]

Cady, this sounds like an absolute nightmare!

> On Mar 9, 2018, at 8:20 AM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In a few days, I will receive another corporate laptop.
> 
> I work from home (mostly) as a sub-contractor to a company working for
> CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). The company provides
> administration services to the ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease)
> contract.
> 
> TMI: When I started, I worked for GDIT (General Dynamics IT). They
> lost the admin contract to another company; no one contacted me about
> working for said company, so I found another job. Some weeks later, HP
> (Hewlett Packard) contacted me and asked me why I hadn't completed my
> resume and job application (what resume & job application?!). They
> gave me the web page, I finished, and a few weeks later they called
> and asked why I hadn't responded to the job offer (what job offer?).
> So I responded, and worked for HP for about a year until they decided
> to focus HP on hardware and spin off "HPE" (Hewlett Packard
> Enterprise) for their cloud services and government contracts. A year
> after that, HPE decided to "spin-merge" the government contract
> business with CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) into a new company
> called DXC Technology (no known acronym, just letters).
> 
> I won't go into the changes and updates to the job description, system
> architecture, software applications, and user interfaces. They, too,
> have been a constant challenge. We are, by hook and by crook, by creak
> and by crack, moving everything into "The Cloud" - which is another
> way to say, if you don't have full internet access, you cannot do the
> job. Given our current public infrastructure, what could possibly go
> wrong?
> 
> In late 2017, DXC Technology decided to perform another "spin-merge"
> of its USA government contracts with two other companies into a new
> company. Official date May 1st, official name To Be Announced. But
> they are sending me a laptop in the mail.
> 
> So, since I left my husband's company after working there for 25
> years, I have worked on government contracts. Doing roughly the same
> job, I have been employed by GDIT > HP > HPE > DXC Tech > ?New
> Company?
> 
> And I will have 4 computers on my desk. My own (MacOS 10.13.3); the
> CMS laptop (Win7); the HP>HPE>DXC Tech laptop (Win10); and a new
> laptop (Win10? RHEL? ?something else?).
> 
> Tech-World: if you don't want to "move with the times" and re-learn
> everything every few months, you don't want to be in it.
> Unfortunately, the techies are driving, and all they see are shiny new
> toys to be mastered.
> 
> Cady