Somehow they've learned nothing and will likely be forced to go back to in house staff after some massive outage or security breach.
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Everyone at Canada Life in 3 months: What the heck does “do the needful” mean?
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I thought Canada was part of India already now
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Only Brampton so far
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I love stories like these because invariably, they'll save some money on IT for a few quarters, everything will fall apart, users will absolutely hate it, and eventually they'll have to restart the in-house IT and spend even more money on the project to fix all the shit the outsourcing broke.
Decision makers will be human-shaped dust clouds with trailing canadian dollars by that time though.
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I've worked at a couple places that outsource the low importance/impact grunt work to other countries and keep all important/high impact work in the west, it seems to result in decent products.
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Anything done in leafland is done by half measures
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All those words words words
I'd respect corpos more if they just came out and said, "We want to spend less money on overhead" rather than typing 3 paragraphs that say nothing
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Learn to ... Oh no no no.
More lads get to expirience somewhat middle class lifestyle while default on mortgages.
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The irony is that the Leaf IT department is almost certainly all
They're getting undercut by fellow Indians
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And the ones that can afford to move to western countries are typically the highest caste. Imagine being affluent enough to move to a non-shithole only for some disgusting untouchable to pull the rug from underneath you
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We don't get the respectable sexy Indian dudes, we have horribly low standards so we basically get whatever slop.
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That's no longer the case here. For the past decade it's been mostly poor punjabis
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In the grizzly darkness of the far future, there is only moid seethe.
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I'm so pissed off with all of the Indian outsourcing it's making me feel like I'm losing my mind
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Please get the needful therapy
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I actually complained about it already to my psychiatrist when he asked me how work was going and if I had any plans to switch jobs since we had comp day like a month ago. I told him I might if they kept hiring more shit fricking devs in India, which is true.
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Are there any stressors in your life you'd like to talk about this week?
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It could be worse, they could be bringing them to you...
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Sirrrr if you want your life insurance you must buy me gift cards.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Sir please be seeing doctor Gurpreet Rajdul at Western Union sir, upon redeeming your $600 gift cards we can be releasing the prescription sir
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Sirr, the fixation is the Apple gift cards, sir. You don't need to worry, sir.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Delete system32
Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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Coca-Cola did this and was scrambling to rehire their IT department 3 years later.
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