India Call Centre Staff Bribed

Evening Standard ^ | 2/10/04 | Pete Warren

[Southack]

Was it Bank of New York, by any chance?

[Mamzelle]

I should have read on before posting the previous question--is this an American bank? Holy cow--!

[kitkat]

***The bank is "re-evaluating" its use of Indian ousourcing.***

Thanks for the further information.

[international american]

"The bank is "re-evaluating" its use of Indian ousourcing."

I'll bet:)

[FormerACLUmember]

see post 17 for the bottom line.

[Heyworth]

'If you are using people in a low wage area, organised crime can afford to pay a lifetime's wages for data.'

Hey, they're just being entrepreneurial, like all those people whose jobs have been outsourced are being told to be.

[Mamzelle]

They oughta move really fast to reimburse, because this could hit the fan in a big way for them--it's politically hot, and also makes the bank look crooked.

[StolarStorm]

I strongly encourage that this be publicized. I'm sure that if news outlets were made aware of this example of "secure" banking, it would get a lot of play.

[FormerACLUmember]

Dad has $17,000 back already, the other $16,000 from the Indian out-sourcing theft is still pending.

[Mamzelle]

Not to mention getting a much quicker reimbursement!

Looks like outsourcing might not be such a bargain if you have many more incidents like this...shudder...

[Mamzelle]

I guess it's not wise to name names here, but do you mind saying if the bank is US-based?

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[harpseal]

Ping

On or off - Lt me know

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I have been saying this since they started out sourcing computer data and programming.

[philosofy123]

The best way for corporations is to export the jobs on the top, such as the position of President, and Vice Presidents. If that was the first action when companies need to cut cost, you would see very fast a better way to do things around corporate America. The same thing for our government, if the government gets into economic pinch, let us exports the jobs of President, Cabinet members, and all senators and congressmen. Indian dudes would work 24 X 7 for half the pay we give our congressmen. An Indian President for example, would travel coach and we would save the money we spend on Air Force One

The idea that a poor shmock engineer should not get pay $50k/year because an Indian engineer would do the job for $10k/year is ludicrous, why do we pay a Senator $150K if an Indian graduate from a political science college would take $10K/year to do the same job. The problem we have here is the bastards who are making decisions on our behalf are getting a bonus for saving the company moneys, and are not subjecting their own life or careers to any jeopardy

[lelio]

10 Points to whomever correctly identifies which group, temps or happy long-termers, is *more* easily bribed.

Careful where you're going with that -- a proponent of offshoring said that these sorts of charges are racially motivated. Granted he worked for a call center that's big in India.

Its just a fact of life: temp workers that aren't paid much can be easily swayed by large amounts of money. And it just so happens that a large amount of money in India is $1k whereas it would be $10k here. Plus who is going to know if you bought illegal info something 5k miles away? The bank sure isn't going to inform its people.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But...outsourcing is a good thing, right?

[searchandrecovery]

Harpseal returns?

[stylin19a]

ping

[dwd1]

Let's see... We hand the keys to the kingdom to the lowest bidder that is out of the jurisdiction of our enforcement authorities and we have a few bad apples that take advantage with the knowledge they can take that money and disappear... I am shocked! SHOCKED, I SAY!!!!