Posted on 10/22/2015 2:12:22 AM PDT by markomalley
That’s great...I just sent it on to a bunch of people I know...:)
Thing is, I can accept that a company might lay people off, and if it were me, I would never, ever consider anything like sabotage. It just isn’t in my nature.
But what that company did...I cannot get my head around it. That is evil. I still have a hard time believing it.
Outsourcing critical engineering is always a loser. Call centers are the most popular outsourcing solution, and even that’s a mixed bag. Americans generally do not want to deal with Indian call takers. So now, they’re outsourcing to eastern Europe and Mexico, which I find amusing.
Anytime a company at which I’ve worked has outsourced anything bigger than Tier One (e.g. Call Center), it’s been a colossal failure. Even “certified” professionals in foreign countries generally can’t hold a candle to domestic resources.
Most of these kind of severance conditions are unenforceable. Especially since this one says you only need to be “reasonably available”. Sign it, take the money, and don’t be available.
I remember it well. “We’re putting together a weekends team to fix the Bangalore code, who wants to volunteer?”
LOL, yes...everyone is supposed to document extensively to the point someone could just pick it up who was unfamiliar with it and figure it out.
Of course...but only if you sprinkle it with some of that special unicorn horn dust...
Heh, I used to know a self-professed “technology ignoramus” guy of few words who used to walk by me in the hall and mutter in a heavy Lebanese accent “F-Disk.”
That is all he would say, nearly inaudibly.
I don’t know why, but coming from him, in that way, with that heavy accent seems really funny to me.
He's *very* comfortable, and has more work than he knows what to do with. Been that way for years, too. Probably a couple of decades worth.
I have yet to meet a foreign programmer who documents. Or a domestic one for that matter.
“Dammit Jim, I’m a programmer, not an author”
Heh, I visualized McCoy saying that!
I try, but sometimes I think of some poor guy trying to follow my byzantine logic by following my comments, which make sense to ME...
So then NOBODY gets severance... that's not right.
I agree. H1B IT people and other entry level foreigners are here for one reason - they are working cheaper than the highly skilled and costly American workers they replace. If companies had to pay the equivalent American wages and added costs of importing labor there might be be more openings for entry level American workers. Right now there are plenty of unemployed American IT workers and college graduates with IT degrees willing to replace the H1Bs at prevailing wages.
But poor management, bean counters, and other diversity and politically correct types are jeopardizing quality to save a few bucks. While managers come and go, the screwed up and orphaned systems remain long after they're gone. Good IT technical people are an asset, not a liability to the companies they work for. Good management knows that.
Anyone who wants to keep their job shouldn’t document anything; they’re just creating user manuals for their replacements. In some tech & finance positions, the stuff is so boring that the person responsible for documenting (often not a tech or finance person themselves) falls asleep after the first 1/2 hour...
Kinda like socialism and it's big brother, communism.
This is on my personal website: The Bastard Operator From Hell Collection
Time flies ...
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