>>http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/2387954/
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>>What I find interesting is that one of those who was fired complained that his training was inadequate and 'outsourced.'
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>I lost my job at IBM to someone in India who was seeing Foxpro for the first time. The reason was that I supported mature FoxPro applications that required maintenance (which was not billable) rather than enhancements/new developemnt (which was) and all maintenance activity was supposed to be done in India.
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>I've seen them demand specifications from the client which wound up being "cut this code and paste it into this module at this line number" and then seen them charge for 20 hours of coding time in addition to billing for a project manager.
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>Just before I "left" I estimated an enhancement project at 35 hours (really about 20 hours plus a fudge factor). I found out that IBM had turned it into over 200 hours, ran over budget, and delivered a non-working version.
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>If I sound bitter and as if I hold a grudge - I am and I do. I have zero respect for the company and less than that in sympathy.


I left one job a couple of years ago because the development group was told in so many words that all development work was moving to India (Chennai). The parent company my group was part of had done three new projects in India already. All three were catastrophes but the commitment to doing development in India only increased. Weird.