[Magdalen] Interesting Times

[Scott Knitter]

Hi, Cady! I think I saw the new name yesterday. I won't spoil the suspense
unless you want me to. :)

Scott, starting a sunny DXC Friday...

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA