Posted on 03/07/2016 6:04:07 AM PST by C19fan
Abbott Labs, a global healthcare company, is laying off about 180 IT employees after signing an agreement with Wipro, a major India-based IT services firm, to take over some IT services. The employees were told about the planned cuts on Feb. 22; their last day will be April 22.
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I’d call in sick when I was supposed to train my replacement.
So lets tax it and make companies strictly liable .
I have seen first hand the cost pressures.
And I know one the Abbott guys being let go.
On this, we agree. Provide a disincentive and the math no longer works for these deals.
Even with offshoring, how do you create a tariff for lines of code?
I had just finished up the IT side of nearly a billion dollar merger. Darn near killed myself to it, but we finished under budget, and well under the deadline. Mana fell from the heavens, upper management was singing my praises, bonuses and promotions were sure to follow.
Nope. Within a few weeks, I was frantically looking for work, since they had the outsourcing on the schedule. I had 3+ months for "Knowledge Transfer" to my new Indian Overlords.
As a side note, just how much knowledge do you think was transferred? By me, or any of the other 200+ IT guys? :-)
With nearly 15 years of hindsight....the outsourcing was an unmitigated disaster. My old company basically addressed all of the problems by throwing money at them (north of a billion dollars, over 5 years, if the rumor mill was correct). Everyone involved who could even spell "outsourcing" from the COO down was fired - actually the COO "took an early retirement package".
No sympathy here. Only an idiot wouldn't have seen all the problems coming.
It does UNTIL a VP meets the programmers. The first time an Indian programmer calls someone an “idiot”, the project manager will be on the hot seat.
Then the complaints about the language barrier kicks in.
And the rigid unwillingness to change things because the VP changed his mind. “That was not in the spec, we cannot change it”.
Out-sourcing and H1Bs - now your drugs will be made by a bunch of Indians.
Sure, but they dangle a carrot, and to a manufacturing worker with a family, mortgatpge, etc. who knows the chances of finding a new equivalent job anytime soon are slim to none, the $5,000 retention bonus to stick around and train their replacement is hard to walk away from.
It looks good on the bottom line because of the tax structure, global trade and incentives.
I know the drill. The bunout, the intense will to win, then the cuts.
Never finish early. Always have tons of intellectual capital in the can.
I have a patent to write up on active-active processing of securities messages.
Too lazy to do it.
Translation...
“Illinois company to force tech workers to train foreign replacements...”
I'm home most nights for dinner. Little bit of travel, mostly day trips. Probably 45-50 hours a week, which is pretty typical IT. People I work with are a bunch of good ol' boys - they know and do their jobs, and expect me to know and do mine. And that's it - none of the corporate nonsense, politics and backbiting.
Took me 20-odd years to find this place, I'm hoping that things hold together here long enough so that I can retire from it.
I am in NYC. Doing more like 80 hour weeks.
What state are you in?
I’m sure DICK Durbin voted to increase the number of annual H1B visas. You reap what you sow.
He sure seems concerned about the broken employees.
Right. It looks good on their bottom lines because the tax structure and trade deals make it look good.
I have had personal experience that those they have brought in from India are not “the best and the brightest”. They had to be trained and sometimes messed up and/or took a lot longer to accomplish tasks than the US workers.
They push out STEM workers in Indian Universities like crazy.
Indians on H-1B visas are coming to the USA to replace those American citizen workers in the USA. This is called "outsourcing".
Your post only confused things and is totally bogus.
A major company has been doing this every month for the past 25 years.
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