yes, there seems to be a sort of myopia in corporate American that outsourcing is both cheaper and better. I keep seeing articles in the IT magazines questioning whether this trend is rational or even prudent. Apparently the corporate types aren't reading them, because I also keep reading about new outsourcing contracts.
Kind of ironic when you consider the H1B visa cutbacks. Those people would be spending their money in the US; work sent overseas is money spent overseas and it's also frequently a loss of control and critical expertise. But that is a whole other rant :) Dana On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:15:50 -0500, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This happens, for what it's worth, at the corporate level as well, but it > reverse (at least sometimes). My company, for example, has a far reaching > contract with an Indian consulting firm. The numbers have been slowly but > steadily growing, but right now at least a third of our on-site staff aren't > US Citizens (and we have many, many offsite staff in India). > > Since that firm is handling all of the visa work and such it's now become > simpler (business wise) to hire through them so we're forced to interview > ONLY their candidates - only after we've exhausted all possible avenues > through them are we allowed to consider other candidates (and even then only > from a select list of "approved consultant placement agencies"). > > They pride themselves on saying "we won't fire anybody to replace them with > outsourced jobs" but in practice they simply won't hire anybody else to > replace them. In the past two years my area has lost in the range of 20 > people to frustration, retirement, sickness or (rarely) promotion and all of > them were replaced with outsourced personal from this one firm. > > As you might imagine this has become more than a little annoying (for one > thing the placement firm quite simply lie on the resumes they send us, for > another we've no possible way to place suitable candidates that we already > know). In general it's also slowly killing us because these contracts never > last for more than six months - we spend more time training than working it > seems. > > From what I've seen this isn't at all unusual in fortune 100's. > > Jim Davis > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 12:42 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: _Isn't_it_Discrimination? > > > > Most likely. I am just making the point that being lazy or ignorant > > aren't usually good excuses for breaking the law. But yeah, I doubt > > there is (usually) actual prejudice there. I remember the case I > > mentioned because I answered him when he asked the same thing -- isn't > > this discrimination. > > > > Dana > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:139542 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
