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Not to get into the suicide thing but any large corporation that outsources jobs that it can handle in house is stupid and the CIO that thought of it is criminally negligent.

If you are one of the biggest banks in the country are you really going to outsource projects that are mission critical and involve huge transactions of money to some shmoe in India or God knows where?

Talk about the Mother Of All Backdoors.

BTW - I hear that the trend in IT is away from outsourcing.

As for the guy that sucked the gun, well, I don't approve but I can understand. Especially if I had to train my replacement.

The trend is away from outsourcing since many larger companies have found that any savings gained by paying lower salaries(and they aren't really lower, they only appear to be lower) are lost because of the additional management and work quality issues that come up. Bottom line: outsourcing is NOT the wonderful thing so many companies though it would be. On paper it looks great but in practice it is a mess. Too much communication between too many people who have no real interest in the business because IT ISN'T THEIR BUSINESS. They can give you crap and move on because THAT'S THE WAY OUTSOURCING WORKS. Some other sucker can fix your crap after you've gone back to India or on to another assignment in Boston or Germany. Outsourcing is another management fad that, while it will remain at some level, will die out as a major organization principle. BTW, we'll also move away from server farms back to big iron, but that will take a little longer.