So the idea was to look up a single phone number. And your specs had it to look up everything in the exchange.
And you decided that you didn't want to pay decent salaries to those disgusting smelly geeks that you used to have in your office. Instead you wanted to pay one-tenth to a group of Indians that you wouldn't have to see and would never argue with you.
Well, you got what you paid for. A million dollar application that couldn't look up an individual fucking phone number.
Where the hell did you get your MBA? Harvard? Wharton? And how the fuck are you to explain to your stockholders the money you lost as the result of your stupidity?
If you want to know why your US-based employees let an incorrect requirement slip by them, well, here's some kindergarten knowledge for you to learn, Mister Manager.
You've already outsourced their colleagues to India. They know their jobs are going next and that there's nothing out there to replace them. Either they are scared of speaking up to the boss and getting fired now, or they just don't care about what the fuck you and your MBAs are doing to further screw up.
How many of you will have your jobs outsourced to India because you waste your time on this crap rather than trying to understand what your company's management is doing and how much contempt they have for you?
No, the persons that should be held liable are the hospital administrators who were so concerned with profit that they didn't give a damn about confidential patient information. But that won't happen until someone dies, if that.
They passed the buck down to subcontractor A, who passed it to subcontractor B, who passed it to subcontractor C, who had to pay the cost because subcontractor D had taken the money and ran.
No one at UCSF thinks they did one damn thing wrong.
"You do what we tell you to do, without complaining, and without talking back, or we replace you with Indians that work for one-tenth of your salary, don't give us any trouble, and that we don't have to see at all - your smelly, unshaven, ungroomed Star Trek T-shirt look offends us. And if you bring up any crap like "extreme programming" or "refactoring" that takes up our time by making us do work that you are employed to do, then the guard can escort you out of here. Oh, by the way, that "pair programming" idea does have some points to it - from now on we're putting three persons in the cubicle space that we used to waste on one."
So, what news will they cover? The latest outsourcing to Bangalore? What to do while waiting in the unemployment line? What homeless shelters have the least cockroaches?h
Slashdot Mirror
RPI is in Troy, NY - an extremely depressed city even for a depressed region (Upstate NY).
So the idea was to look up a single phone number. And your specs had it to look up everything in the exchange.
And you decided that you didn't want to pay decent salaries to those disgusting smelly geeks that you used to have in your office. Instead you wanted to pay one-tenth to a group of Indians that you wouldn't have to see and would never argue with you.
Well, you got what you paid for. A million dollar application that couldn't look up an individual fucking phone number.
Where the hell did you get your MBA? Harvard? Wharton? And how the fuck are you to explain to your stockholders the money you lost as the result of your stupidity?
If you want to know why your US-based employees let an incorrect requirement slip by them, well, here's some kindergarten knowledge for you to learn, Mister Manager.
You've already outsourced their colleagues to India. They know their jobs are going next and that there's nothing out there to replace them. Either they are scared of speaking up to the boss and getting fired now, or they just don't care about what the fuck you and your MBAs are doing to further screw up.
1999 dotcom, four years too late.
How many of you will have your jobs outsourced to India because you waste your time on this crap rather than trying to understand what your company's management is doing and how much contempt they have for you?
I've seen some listings that are still up a year later, I doubt they'll ever fill them.
No, eventually they'll hire the H1B they always wanted to hire.
Seriously. I thought they were bankrupt (the local paper had a story about a former Comdex marketing rep reduced to selling Tupperware).
Because it isn't rilly cool and techy.
Oh,gee. Ebooks. What's next? Virtual reality? Esther Dyson?
Yeah, somewhere else like India.
Middle managers that are physically present in meetings keep their jobs.
One hundred years from now, PhD theses will be written about the early 21st century obsession with penis size.
[i]also, no one in marketing at MS is in a position to fire anyone working in a product group.[/i]
Those trips they are taking to India are just for "personal development".
No, the persons that should be held liable are the hospital administrators who were so concerned with profit that they didn't give a damn about confidential patient information. But that won't happen until someone dies, if that.
Well, they're not taking responsibility.
They passed the buck down to subcontractor A, who passed it to subcontractor B, who passed it to subcontractor C, who had to pay the cost because subcontractor D had taken the money and ran.
No one at UCSF thinks they did one damn thing wrong.
6. The Fifth Element
Off-by-1 error?
[To receptionist] Get me India.
"You do what we tell you to do, without complaining, and without talking back, or we replace you with Indians that work for one-tenth of your salary, don't give us any trouble, and that we don't have to see at all - your smelly, unshaven, ungroomed Star Trek T-shirt look offends us. And if you bring up any crap like "extreme programming" or "refactoring" that takes up our time by making us do work that you are employed to do, then the guard can escort you out of here. Oh, by the way, that "pair programming" idea does have some points to it - from now on we're putting three persons in the cubicle space that we used to waste on one."
"You do this now, without any whining, and we might consider - for about ten seconds - not outsourcing your job to Bangalore."
Rheingold. Gosling. Red Herring.
So, who's next? Razorfish? TheGlobe? The Pets.com sock puppet?
Did he have to train his Indian replacement?
So, what news will they cover? The latest outsourcing to Bangalore? What to do while waiting in the unemployment line? What homeless shelters have the least cockroaches?h
His product is a bug tracking system?
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You can't even give away development tools today. He'll be out of business in nine months
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It's easier to get a programmer today than a non-programming paper pusher. Lower salary, too.
none of them are working.