[Magdalen] Interesting Times

[Scott Knitter]

I'm continuing with DXC; I'm in (departing) Mike Nefkens' area. We do
proposals for state & local government deals but not federal, so we're not
US Public Sector.

Interesting that our Chicago office has been designated as DXC-only now; no
more sharing with HPE and the new entity. I'll have to go there on a
weekend and see what's where and figure out where I would work if I worked
in the office. (Helps me feel like less of a new kid at school when I do
work in the office.)

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:01 AM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA