Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements

Makarand writes "David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that Bank of America (BofA) is moving thousands of tech jobs to India and has asked its techies to train their Indian replacements or risk losing severance pay. Although there is nothing in writing that says precisely this, the employees have been made clear about this responsibility in their meetings. BofA is outsourcing tech work to Indian companies whose employees do the work at half the cost of what a U.S. worker gets paid. According to an estimate, outsourcing has allowed the bank to save about $100 million over the past five years."

Comments

Re:Another Silly Outsourcer.......

[NewbieProgrammerMan]

Would anyone like to guess how much time, money, effort and resources is going to be spent trying to communicate with these idiots, and actually get anything done?

I was with you up to this point, but if you're referring to the folks in India as idiots, your argument gets drowned out by apparent bigotry. If you're referring to the Bank of America management as idiots, that doesn't upset me, but given the context of the quoted statement, I have to assume you're calling the Indian workers idiots.

Re:In a capitalist economy, stuff like this happen

[iggymanz]

your argument is flawed. it is not capitalism to take advantage of the lower wages an enslaved, communist or caste-system society has as a result of its oppression of people. When you see Bush and his big-business pandering minions, think of a new breed of slave trader.