On Feb 25, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote:
Some thoughts from someone on the other side.
What's the point of saying "Oh, I'm an outsourced nobody." in a
post where one is asking for help. So you may choose to not answer
or sit on your high horse and ridicule their incompetence when
they're struggling?
If you guys (actual mainframe folk with decades of background) are
going to compare outsourced folk vs yourselves, you're doing it wrong.
Most of your outsourced folk are younger than the total experience
you may have. Of course they're going to be inferior.
Do you call a baby rubbish because it can't write a sonnet? Yes,
the baby has no business writing sonnets but welcome to the world
of outsourcing.
When deciding to outsource, your employer has chosen money over the
people who have served him/her for a long time.
Don't take out your anger and disgust on people who are struggling
to better themselves because they have massive shoes to fill.
It's not his/her action that has led to you being laid off and
being forced to accept ridiculous things (train or you don't get
your 401k or whatever) in your last hours (on the job).
That said, here's some actual feedback which may not be possible to
implement at all though:
1. Exercise as many choices as you must to ensure you do not
suffer. Try as hard as you can to not accept people who can't speak
basic English.
The big man at the outsourcer may not leave that choice to you but
trust me, this is the root of all the abscess that you're
(employer) being charged for.
"This guy can't speak, so let's make him work under some 15,000
managers who repeat the same thing without adding value."
Oh, and BTW, these managers are paid a f*k load more than the
people working, I would assume.
2. Offshoring development, IMHO, is the worst thing you can do.
You want your company to work on code that's written by someone
who's knowledge is extremely limited, and someone who would keep
trying to nail everything because he has a hammer?
3. If you are able to pick the right (technical) people, keep the
overhead (hey, if we're "resources", what's above us ought to be
"overhead" right?) to an extreme minimum.
Who knows, some day Watson may make the whole industry go away and
one machine may manage the other. At that point, you get to say
"Ha! No more of these 'incompetent masses'".
– Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
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Then why should we provide expertise for free?
We all learned the hard way with no IBM-MAIN at beck and call.
We developed our own word of mouth partners. You should be doing the
same.
Ed
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