Same as above, say a child abductor's license plate should have been captured but wasn't because the HDD was full, the procurement process was slow and nobody gave a shit about resolving the issue.
In this case, Sergeant what's-his-name could look up prices for HDDs on Amazon, fill a form asking for 100 dollars to buy a larger HDD and 50 dollars to pay for installation services and be done with it. Paperwork's done, tracked, everyone's happy.
Bureaucracy is fine as long as it doesn't become ridiculous. Processes need to be streamlined and efficient. When they become cumbersome and tedious, they need to be rethought.
User leaves, nobody fills form because that's how human beings are, accounts remain active forever. Passwords should expire every 90 days, but it's one thing when you have one SSO password which expires every 90 days or 30 different passwords which expire every 90 days each. Having to reset and remember 30 passwords, one every 3 days on average, is mind-numbing. Rehires are tricky. Some companies have a data retention / e-mail address retention policy. it's impossible to enforce it with spreadsheets.
Before long you'll have hundreds of Excel files everyone hates and nobody managing them.
Shit idea. Great for onboarding, sucks for when employee X leaves the company (automated inactivation of accounts). Horrible for security (automatic password expiration push). Horrible for rehires or people changing departments. Et Caetera.
[Disclaimer: I am an Oracle employee but am not part of any customer-facing LoB]
OIM - Oracle Identity Management is a large-business solution. The UI is horrendous but it's one of the few Oracle products where that doesn't bother me, simply because you rarely access it. No idea about their pricing, though. Keep in mind that even it won't be an all-in-all solution, there's always going to be the odd environment with its own account management which can't be linked to OIM unless you're willing to spend obscene amounts of time and money.
The guy is "Head of Infrastructure Development, Amazon.com Search Experience (SX)". Would you expect a guy in that position to mingle with the plebe? Everything he says is correct - from the little he knows about the plebe who work for him. And trust me on that: he knows VERY little.
Starting Director-level, people live in the clouds (no pun intended) and to them, it's like watching the ground from an airplane: you see dots instead of people and no details about them.
And of course he's defending the hand that feeds them, and it's likely that hand feeds him a LOT.
"As World of Warcraft's subscriber numbers fall, there's been no corresponding uptick in subscribers of other, competing MMOs." Define "competing MMO".
Is EVE Online a competing MMO of WoW? is World of Tanks (and WoWP, WoWS, WoT:Generals) a competing MMO? Is War Thunder (and Ground Forces) a competing MMO? How about Path of Exile? ArcheAge? Elder Scrolls Online? Planetside 2? Rust? Ark: Survival? Mech Warrior Online? Neverwinter? Elite:Dangerous?
And "subscribers"? Seriously? MMOs with monthly subscriptions are becoming increasingly rare, I know of exactly two (WoW and EVE Online) which are both playing like crazy on sunk cost fallacy. Also none of the people I know play just a single MMO. They switch between them like there's no tomorrow, simply because most of them are free-to-play with microtransactions, and thus allow for taking breaks from game X without wasting money or falling behind. I personally play most of the MMOs listed above, with some being visited for a couple hours every few months, others played daily.
#1: No H1B situation: You have 100 jobs available, you fill them with Americans. #2: H1B situation: You have 100 jobs available, you give 50 to H1Bs, 50 more to Americans, and as a result 60 more local jobs are created, all filled by Americans. End result is you have 160 jobs, with 50 filled by H1Bs and 110 filled by Americans.
Or maybe they don't give a flying fuck about higher pay. I personally know H1Bs who are perfectly happy with 70% of the industry salary, and their happiness comes from the following: - Getting out of a crappier country and living in a better one (where e.g. people don't shit on the street because they have no toilet, as mentioned in a comment above). - Having more opportunities in the long term. Sacrificing 3-6 years for a green card and getting 3 decades of ROI out of it is a very good deal. - Ability to create a family and raise kids in a better country - kids who will be native to said country and would have a lot more advantages and opportunities than their parents had.
Crazy analogy: it's like being admitted to a Muslim heaven where they tell you "since you're not a true believer, we're only giving you 40 virgins instead of 64, and that would last 5 years". Would YOU complain? I sure as hell wouldn't.
Exhibits less entitlement. Works harder because he's grateful for his chance. Comes from a culture where you very very rarely stand against your boss (in case of Indian workers). Speaks, on average, more languages than a native worker. Is more willing to improve because he risks more if not improving.
There are also disadvantages, of course: some workers might have high MTI (aka "thick accent"), there's always some cultural clash (ranging from insignificant to hellish), might not integrate ("fully" to "at all") with the company culture.
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Yeah. Much like walking being a much simpler way to get anywhere, compared to driving.
Citric.
Same as above, say a child abductor's license plate should have been captured but wasn't because the HDD was full, the procurement process was slow and nobody gave a shit about resolving the issue.
And that is why I don't work for the gubbermint. Never managed to become that corrupted.
Wait a second.
I don't mind paperwork.
In this case, Sergeant what's-his-name could look up prices for HDDs on Amazon, fill a form asking for 100 dollars to buy a larger HDD and 50 dollars to pay for installation services and be done with it. Paperwork's done, tracked, everyone's happy.
Bureaucracy is fine as long as it doesn't become ridiculous. Processes need to be streamlined and efficient. When they become cumbersome and tedious, they need to be rethought.
Yeah but the amount of occurrences where it does good is swamped by those where it does awful things to everyone.
User leaves, nobody fills form because that's how human beings are, accounts remain active forever.
Passwords should expire every 90 days, but it's one thing when you have one SSO password which expires every 90 days or 30 different passwords which expire every 90 days each. Having to reset and remember 30 passwords, one every 3 days on average, is mind-numbing.
Rehires are tricky. Some companies have a data retention / e-mail address retention policy. it's impossible to enforce it with spreadsheets.
Before long you'll have hundreds of Excel files everyone hates and nobody managing them.
Shit idea.
Great for onboarding, sucks for when employee X leaves the company (automated inactivation of accounts). Horrible for security (automatic password expiration push). Horrible for rehires or people changing departments. Et Caetera.
[Disclaimer: I am an Oracle employee but am not part of any customer-facing LoB]
OIM - Oracle Identity Management is a large-business solution. The UI is horrendous but it's one of the few Oracle products where that doesn't bother me, simply because you rarely access it.
No idea about their pricing, though. Keep in mind that even it won't be an all-in-all solution, there's always going to be the odd environment with its own account management which can't be linked to OIM unless you're willing to spend obscene amounts of time and money.
Some costs can be hidden from that deciding person. Or greatly understated.
I've seen that time and again.
I always rather liked Bleu deployments... Rouge is so.... Moulin!
Try punching a midget in the cock and he'll bleed for an hour... from his nose.
We're looking as some loooong path to walk.
Hundreds of games.
The guy is "Head of Infrastructure Development, Amazon.com Search Experience (SX)". Would you expect a guy in that position to mingle with the plebe?
Everything he says is correct - from the little he knows about the plebe who work for him. And trust me on that: he knows VERY little.
Starting Director-level, people live in the clouds (no pun intended) and to them, it's like watching the ground from an airplane: you see dots instead of people and no details about them.
And of course he's defending the hand that feeds them, and it's likely that hand feeds him a LOT.
They do. They have them at my workplace. But I just can't do this to my friends (get them hired where I work).
Yeah. I can see you have only played shitty MMOs (if any) recently.
"As World of Warcraft's subscriber numbers fall, there's been no corresponding uptick in subscribers of other, competing MMOs."
Define "competing MMO".
Is EVE Online a competing MMO of WoW? is World of Tanks (and WoWP, WoWS, WoT:Generals) a competing MMO? Is War Thunder (and Ground Forces) a competing MMO? How about Path of Exile? ArcheAge? Elder Scrolls Online? Planetside 2? Rust? Ark: Survival? Mech Warrior Online? Neverwinter? Elite:Dangerous?
And "subscribers"? Seriously? MMOs with monthly subscriptions are becoming increasingly rare, I know of exactly two (WoW and EVE Online) which are both playing like crazy on sunk cost fallacy.
Also none of the people I know play just a single MMO. They switch between them like there's no tomorrow, simply because most of them are free-to-play with microtransactions, and thus allow for taking breaks from game X without wasting money or falling behind. I personally play most of the MMOs listed above, with some being visited for a couple hours every few months, others played daily.
Ease up on that pot, mate.
#1: No H1B situation:
You have 100 jobs available, you fill them with Americans.
#2: H1B situation: You have 100 jobs available, you give 50 to H1Bs, 50 more to Americans, and as a result 60 more local jobs are created, all filled by Americans. End result is you have 160 jobs, with 50 filled by H1Bs and 110 filled by Americans.
#2 generates more local jobs than #1.
Or maybe they don't give a flying fuck about higher pay.
I personally know H1Bs who are perfectly happy with 70% of the industry salary, and their happiness comes from the following:
- Getting out of a crappier country and living in a better one (where e.g. people don't shit on the street because they have no toilet, as mentioned in a comment above).
- Having more opportunities in the long term. Sacrificing 3-6 years for a green card and getting 3 decades of ROI out of it is a very good deal.
- Ability to create a family and raise kids in a better country - kids who will be native to said country and would have a lot more advantages and opportunities than their parents had.
Crazy analogy: it's like being admitted to a Muslim heaven where they tell you "since you're not a true believer, we're only giving you 40 virgins instead of 64, and that would last 5 years". Would YOU complain? I sure as hell wouldn't.
Nope, they would have outsourced that work.
Exhibits less entitlement. Works harder because he's grateful for his chance. Comes from a culture where you very very rarely stand against your boss (in case of Indian workers). Speaks, on average, more languages than a native worker. Is more willing to improve because he risks more if not improving.
There are also disadvantages, of course: some workers might have high MTI (aka "thick accent"), there's always some cultural clash (ranging from insignificant to hellish), might not integrate ("fully" to "at all") with the company culture.
When in doubt, +1 Funny.
If you're not in management, you might consider going down that path. You have the right mentality.