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

Outsourcing is great!

[Baldrson]

Here's how I tried to explain to my congressional representative why it is better to outsource than to raise the H-1b cap:

When you outsource, you don't import a bunch of guys who engage in ethnic nepotism to import other Indians for the huge increases in dowery ($50k frequently) they can enjoy from a green card, as well as minting MBAs and lawyers from the corporate education benefits. That way, when the company finally goes tits up, the way Sun did, you haven't left a mafia in the USA.

Re:splitting semantic hairs

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, because whining about a class of people who live illegally, and are a strain on the system because they don't follow the same rules as everyone else is clearly racism.

Re:splitting semantic hairs

[alfs boner]

Southern Californian has just as much immigration from Poland and Congo as it does from Mexico.

Cocksmacking bigot apologist.

Dey took are jaaaaaaahbs!!!