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Outsourced ! yea...
Not the movie.. My job.. this year...
Allow me a small rant... As an IT guy, this is now the 3rd time I go through that, except this time I'm probably gonna bite it, and it's always the same BS...
Company goes public, or gets bought, done both. In come the consultants... Despite the problem very likely being way too many chiefs and not enough indians (VP of talent maximization? Director of availability management? are those even real jobs?), and in many cases poor guidance (I'm not a bitter techie, I also got an MBA, I know some of this stuff) the consultants are not about to bite the hand that sign their checks, so they recommend outsourcing... Big savings are projected by the consultants, and the VPs buy it hook line and sinker, people get let go... Then later whoever has not cashed in their stock options to go fishing in the bahamas realizes Apu and Sanjay, while cheap, cannot quite do all that your local people did. Sure they are cheaper but you gotta redo a significant portion of the work due to a variety of factors (communication, time difference, misunderstandings, scope issues) or add more layers of quality control... Then once they got you after the first year, they raise their price too. So you go back and try to rebuild your IT department, by which time the good people are long gone and you are stuck with the deadwood... Lather, rinse, repeat....
Oh well, it's not about logic, it's about making your stock price go up in time to sell your stock options. I think this might be just the impetus (that's latin for kick in the butt) I need to go do something else entirely... If only I could figure out what I wanna do when I grow up ;-)
It's could be a while, but i got this planned out... use the severance to get my Private pilot license and take a sabbatical... then we'll see if i can stand corporate America, still! I have my doubts...
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