I watched it happen to IBM as a CE going into and out of multiple divisions of the company and continued when TSS/Kodak took over repair and installations....think it's dead now but it went from great to a nightmare in short order.
I was told by my trainer when I hired that 70% wouldn't be here in 2 years and I lasted 4 1/2yrs just to prove him wrong but I am glad I didn't go so long that I ended up with too much to lose. Once it went to TSS, Dallas dispatched like bullies and my hours in field started to average 16 hours a day with no end in site. Bailed as a result.
This practice has only accelerated since 1995. The growth in the IT services industry has been led by firms like Cognizant, Hitachi, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, HCL and others. The big consulting firms like Deloitte, PwC, EY, and IBM also rely on offshore IT staffs, so even spending the big money with the premiere consulting firms does not assure competence. These offshore firms employ hundreds of thousands of Indian employees. I worked for one of these companies for a few years. I can say at the technical level I saw nothing but total incompetence. The Indian staff had no business experience and little technical competency. The sales people would agree to whatever scope the client wanted at whatever price the client was willing to pay. 6 to 12 months after the contracts were signed, Indians imported, and client's US staff terminated, the incompetence of the Indian firm became evident. But, by this time, the client was stuck - the project was too much of a mess to hand over to another firm; the work could not be completed on time or on budget, so the client got less than they contracted for, they got it late, and for more money than they planned. This was not an "occasional" occurrence - it happened on every project I had direct knowledge of.
The only part of the organization that was competent was the legal department. They were pretty good at making sure the clients got screwed in court as well as on the project. Buyer beware.
That was under another President it has nothing to do with Trump. You know Trump well enough, he is only going to bring in the people he needs because not enough Americans to fill the jobs. He is also going to vet them. He is not going to bring in skilled workers and pay them slave wages.
Smarten up people you are starting to get ridiculous.
I remember; it happened to me. I quit first.
I watched it happen to IBM as a CE going into and out of multiple divisions of the company and continued when TSS/Kodak took over repair and installations....think it's dead now but it went from great to a nightmare in short order.
That would not happen under Trump and you know it. These companies were allowed to get away with it before but not any more.
You are correct most likely never on Trump's Watch but I was commenting on my experience as a IBM employee in the 90's.
I was told by my trainer when I hired that 70% wouldn't be here in 2 years and I lasted 4 1/2yrs just to prove him wrong but I am glad I didn't go so long that I ended up with too much to lose. Once it went to TSS, Dallas dispatched like bullies and my hours in field started to average 16 hours a day with no end in site. Bailed as a result.
This practice has only accelerated since 1995. The growth in the IT services industry has been led by firms like Cognizant, Hitachi, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, HCL and others. The big consulting firms like Deloitte, PwC, EY, and IBM also rely on offshore IT staffs, so even spending the big money with the premiere consulting firms does not assure competence. These offshore firms employ hundreds of thousands of Indian employees. I worked for one of these companies for a few years. I can say at the technical level I saw nothing but total incompetence. The Indian staff had no business experience and little technical competency. The sales people would agree to whatever scope the client wanted at whatever price the client was willing to pay. 6 to 12 months after the contracts were signed, Indians imported, and client's US staff terminated, the incompetence of the Indian firm became evident. But, by this time, the client was stuck - the project was too much of a mess to hand over to another firm; the work could not be completed on time or on budget, so the client got less than they contracted for, they got it late, and for more money than they planned. This was not an "occasional" occurrence - it happened on every project I had direct knowledge of.
The only part of the organization that was competent was the legal department. They were pretty good at making sure the clients got screwed in court as well as on the project. Buyer beware.
This is one of the better comments I’ve read in a long time. If you can find a supporting source, you should make this a post.
That was under another President it has nothing to do with Trump. You know Trump well enough, he is only going to bring in the people he needs because not enough Americans to fill the jobs. He is also going to vet them. He is not going to bring in skilled workers and pay them slave wages.
Smarten up people you are starting to get ridiculous.
In the title of my post, I pointed out that it was during GHWB’s term. I made no comment derogatory of President Trump here.
You're the only one who is being ridiculous here, you are asserting something OP never claimed or even hinted at.
My father trained his replacement. I remember it well. We had to move because it was difficult for him to get a good job.
Yeah, and wasn’t he the one that said it’s a great idea for Spanish to be our second language. It was subversion and infiltration.