Journal turgid's Journal: Train Crash in Slow Motion 7
Today I went to speak to my line manager about my career path. He told me that my project is being sent to India.
First we were told that nothing would change. Then we were told that we might get some off-shore help and now everything is being taken from us and sent away.
Guess what, though? They're going to need our help to bring the off-shore people up to speed! And these off-shore people are so confident of their own abilities that they reckon they'll be fully productive in a matter of weeks.
The great thing is, this will free us up. When we are freed up, the company will be able to bring in new business for us. It can't bring in new business while all of the staff are fully committed or something...
Several other projects are being sent off shore too. Aren't we lucky? That's so much opportunity for doing new and exciting work!
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And the best part: if they're not ready in just a few weeks like they claim they can be, clearly it's because the old employees "aren't team players" or are "sabotaging the project"
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I'd love to be able to find a new job and leave, saying that all of my knowledge is "in the wiki" so I don't need to train any of the new people.
A lot of it is. We're pretty diligent at using the wiki in our team. Obviously, this is completely missing the point, but it's the sort of nonsense that PHBs believe.
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The thing that I work on involves hardware, device drivers and a mult-ithreaded real-time Linux application. I do the application.
The new company are a bunch of cheapskates and they tried every dirty trick they could to get us as cheaply as possible. Since we were protected by TUPE, they managed to stitch us up on the pensions.
The older staff, i,e, those about 50 years old and more, were very badly stitched up by the new pension deal, effectively losing many tens of thousands of pounds out of their pensions
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a Monty Python sketch
In a nutshell.
....but I'm turning into Basil Fawlty again :-)