What's Happening As The University of California Tries To Outsource IT Jobs To India (pressreader.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader Nova Express shares an epic column by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik. It details what's happening now as the University of California tries to outsources dozens of IT jobs -- about 20% of their IT workforce -- by February 28th. Some of the highlights:

• The CEO of UCSF's Medical Center says he expects their security to be at least as good as it is now, but acknowledges "there are no guarantees."
• Nine workers have filed a complaint with the state's Department of Fair Employment and Housing arguing they're facing discrimination.
• California Senator Feinstein is already complaining that the university is tapping $8.5 billion in federal funding "to replace Californian IT workers with foreign workers or labor performed abroad."
• Representative Zoe Lofgren (from a district in Silicon Valley) is arguing that the university "is training software engineers at the same time they're outsourcing their own software engineers. What message are they sending their own students?"
• 57-year-old sys-admin Kurt Ho says his replacement spent just two days with him, then "told me he would go back to India and train his team, and would be sending me emails with questions."
• The university's actions will ultimately lower their annual $5.83 billion budget by just 0.1%.

Comments

Awesome

[barrywalker]

Now your IT department will be trying to fleece the faculty and students with scam phone calls about how their computers are infected with viruses.

Bravo, nitwits.

Re:Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

They are just doing the needful on priority and at the earliest. They will revert when complete.

Re:Awesome

[swb]

What happens when Indian IT people in the US get scam computer virus calls from India? Does it create some kind of singularity that causes both of them to move to another dimension?

Or is it more like:

"I am calling from the Microsoft support center and I wish to tell you your computer has a virus"

"Nilesh? What are you doing? I thought you were going to work in the civil service section your family controls."

"Premal, since Modi has withdrawn the large rupee notes my uncle can no longer give me a job in the civil service and I must work at the call center and to tell you your computer has a virus."

Re: Awesome

[saloomy]

The time when we were your bosses has come and gone. We replaced you guys with shell scripts and automation ages ago.

Re:This is a surprise?

[gumbright]

This is likely the dumbest thing I will read today. Assuming, of course, that you aren't going to post a followup.

"lower their annual ... budget by just 0.1%"

[Nutria]

Working in IT, I'm not too thrilled by this, but that one statement shows a complete lack of thought.

To paraphrase not-Everett Dirksen, "A tenth of a percent here, a tenth of a percent there, pretty soon you're talking real savings."

Re:Automatic.

[ghoul]

So you want public money to be used to overpay govt employees instead of getting the best value for the money by using the lower cost private sector provider. No wonder taxes are so high in California.

Re:What about globalism?

[Highdude702]

Apparently you're not allowed to read comments on articles he posts senseless shit on from what I see

Re:This is a surprise?

[budgenator]

Bahahahaha, they thought Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), was going to effectively intercede with Janet Napolitano to help rich American white guys keep their jobs, from being outsourced to poor brown guys, due to financial realities of the reduced care reimbursements to providers under Obamacare and increased demand from illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities!

Those IT guys should get the buttercup award for being a special kind of snowflake!