Journal dedazo's Journal: Economic Crisis: Offshore Hurting Too 2
Just in time for this comment I made yesterday, I received an email a few hours ago from one of the tech leads at the company I work with as a consultant. Of the entire application portfolio for the VP whose groups I work with, they will be releasing 57 people (or offshore resources as they call them) at two locations in India.
This adjustment in staffing (more management speak) directly affects six to eight different projects/applications across four groups in the division. And this is just one division under one VP. I am involved with two of those. Technically I am an onshore resource as well, at least from their staffing perspective, although I'm not in India, I don't work through Tata, Infosys or IBM, and I don't cost $20/hr.
These are mostly developers, with a small number of QA/testing positions and a few analysts. It also includes about two thirds of the tier-1 production support staff for the entire division. Yay.
Of course what I have not seen is an adjustment on the project schedules that were agreed upon last month, with the assumption that all these resources would be available. Or the SLAs for that matter, which assume there are people 24/7 available to respond to problems. Dollars to doughnuts they will probably change very little, or not at all. The business stakeholders (the people who actually pay for, use and own these applications) will be told that everything's A-OK, as usual.
Over the course of these project(s) you inevitably tend to get to know these people. They get married, have children, get sick, their parents or grandparents die, etc. You talk to them on the phone every day. You exchange emails. I know some of them personally, as they've been flown out for meetings and knowledge transfer sessions and whatnot. Some are good developers, some are not. But they're all human beings, and now they're out of work, just like so many people in the US, Europe and elsewhere.
I thought I'd share this. People here on Slashdot tend to be generally hostile towards the whole notion of outsourcing, and I don't necessarily blame them. It's a very visceral issue. But we do often forget that these people we have a vague dislike of are ultimately just like us. It's not their fault that the companies that employ us want to make three cents a share more per year to keep investors happy and they do that by eliminating a thousand US jobs.
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It's not their fault that the companies that employ us want to make three cents a share more per year to keep investors happy and they do that by eliminating a thousand US jobs.
It's our fault that we invest our 401K's in the companies that employ our fellow workers that want to make three cents a share more per year to keep us happy and do so by eliminating their jobs.
What if everyone who has to work for a living sold all their shares in their retirement account in all companies that shed American jobs as a
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Unfortunately for everyone, everything is interconnected. That's why a blind trust is better every time!
The economy would collapse, the dollar would end up in