[rescue] [geeks] Looking for a sysadmin gig in Houston/remote

[Nick B]

Easy.  "Cut 10m off our operating budget and you get a 1m bonus in 3
months."
6 months later
"Onshore everything successfully and you get a 1m bonus in 3 months."
(Ok, the cycle isn't usually quite *that* short)
Nick

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 12/02/15 11:46, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:39:07AM -0600, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> >
> >> I would love for nothing more than to see 100 replies to my post
> telling me
> >> how wrong I am, and how great everyone else is making out after their
> job
> >> has been out sourced to India, etc, but I just don't think it is a
> common
> >> deal, or even rarely seen.
> >
> > My experience also, sadly.
> >
> > I do remember exactly *one* time in an outsourcing deal where things
> didn't
> > actually *end* badly. All the rest, bad from beginning to end.
>
> Outsourcing secondary or tertiary functions can sometimes make a kind of
> sense, from a business perspective.  I am utterly at a loss to
> comprehend how anyone could ever have thought that outsourcing or, even
> worse, offshoring core competencies and expertise was ever a good idea.
>
>
> --
>   Phil Stracchino
>   Babylon Communications
>   phils at caerllewys.net
>   phil at co.ordinate.org
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