[Magdalen] Interesting Times

[cady soukup]

Yes, I did Scott -

Are you making the transition to *NewCO* as well? The few of us
DXCTech folks on this CMS contract spent some time yesterday pondering
the meaning of the new name. Corporate naming just gets weirder.

My personal opinion is that we're getting shuffled off into a benefits
wasteland.

Cady

On 3/9/18, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>