Posted on 04/06/2005 by been_there_before
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I have been going through this whole outsourcing ordeal for over a year now. At first, we were told by our company (Zurich) that we were just too expensive to keep, and they could get the same work done overseas for a fraction of the price. They then went on to tell us how talented the pool of developers are overseas, and how they are trained from a very young age, etc etc. Well as you can imagine our morale skyrocketed after that meeting.
So a few months go by, nothing ever happened. Apparently PR issues around outsourcing were coming more and more main stream and I got the feeling they did not want the bad wrap. So we thought everything was back to normal.
A few months later, the monster re-surfaced. Guess what? This time they had decided to bring in a local 3rd party vendor to take over all application development. We would be migrated over to the new company and continue to do our same job, but as employees of this new vendor. The company claimed this provided them with "flexibility" and a endless pool of resources. They said our jobs would only get better since the addition resources would free up our time to work on new projects instead of doing maintenance work.
As skeptical as we were, we went along with it and became employees of this vendor. Well, not even 8 weeks into our employment with this new vendor (CSC) do we learn of their "real" plan to start having us all transfer our knowledge to both offshore and near-shore resources (India and Canada). We were getting removed from the account due to the fact that we were too expensive (where had we heard this before?).
I didn't stick around to find out where they were going to send me. I ended up resigning 3 days before my knowledge transfer recipient was to arrive. Coincidentally my co-worker and backup left the week later. I hear they have not gotten much work done since we left... ;-)
I am now working for a small private company that values their employees as people, not resources. I am very happy now...=)
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