[TPR] 2011 Solutions to Outsourcing of American Jobs

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Small story.

One of my customers, a large utility back east, outsourced their entire 
IT staff to India a couple years ago.  As part of ongoing product 
support, we have (had?) a product upgrade available for this customer.  
However, it needed new hardware to be compatible and "fast" for the 
customer.  They agreed and put in the orders, requisitions, management 
requests, etc.  All they needed was two new servers with Windows 2003 
Server edition, one with SQL 2003 installed, usernames and passwords 
were specified, etc.

It's now been over one year and I'm still getting emails from my guy at 
this utility with forwards and replies from the IT staff.  I don't 
really want to say they are incompetent, but this is ridiculous.  The 
last email I got from him still indicated they hadn't got the logins 
correct across the two servers.

Now, to put this in perspective, before they outsourced this to India, 
we would have been done in less than 30 days from signing the req, to 
being done with the upgrade.  This project is still nowhere near being 
ready for the software install and it's been over a freakin' YEAR!  My 
pal at the utility is about ready to quit, not because of this one 
thing, but because all the other crap he now has to go through for 
-anything- IT related.  It's a wonder he gets anything done.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 1/1/2011 12:09, Brian Ward wrote:
>
> MD,
>
> I knew it was a sarcastic spoof but the possibility is real. Today, 
> more and more people work for call centers for all types of business. 
> Even engineering firms contract highly technical design work to home 
> based freelancers as I did years ago. It is easy to place a job hired 
> by one at home in the hands of less payed third world individuals. It 
> is more a matter of morals. Most of your computer scams and attacks 
> come from highly knowledgeable people in those countries. They are 
> good at what they do and far from the reach of US law. The internet 
> and will of someone to do this is very possible. My eyes are wide ass 
> open.
>
> Happy New Year J
>
> Grasshopper
>
> *From:*tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com 
> [mailto:tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com] *On Behalf Of *Mad Dog 
> Antenucci
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 01, 2011 11:39 AM
> *To:* Brian Ward; tpr at teampanteraracing.com
> *Subject:* Re: [TPR] 2011 Solutions to Outsourcing of American Jobs
>
> Yea, they are kidding.....watch it again.....its a slam with a big 
> dose of sarcasm. ;-)>
>
> /*Mad Dawg Antenucci */*/
> /**Team Pantera Racing*
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:*Brian Ward <brian at trinityarmco.com>
> *To:* Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>; tpr at teampanteraracing.com
> *Sent:* Fri, December 31, 2010 3:26:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [TPR] 2011 Solutions to Outsourcing of American Jobs
>
> You have got to be kidding.... Americans are already lazy and getting 
> lazier by each hand out... Oh, and when I say Americans, I am not 
> referring to the honest hardworking minority. I should probably have a 
> better name for them but unfortunately they were born on my soil....
>
> Caio
>
> Red Blooded American Grasshopper
>
> *From:*tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com 
> [mailto:tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com] *On Behalf Of *Mad Dog 
> Antenucci
> *Sent:* Friday, December 31, 2010 12:47 PM
> *To:* tpr at teampanteraracing.com
> *Subject:* [TPR] 2011 Solutions to Outsourcing of American Jobs
>
> Happy New Year one more time.
>
> Watch both episodes in the onion. Right now I am thinking about 
> setting up an office in Bangladesh or Republic of Congo....very 
> talented yet low overhead. Women, booze and operating costs all very low.
>
> /*Mad Dawg Antenucci */*/
> /**Team Pantera Racing*
>
> */The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing /**/
> /*www.teampanteraracing.com <http://www.teampanteraracing.com>
>
> The next step in out sourcing - This is wonderful, I need to start 
> looking into this soon..
>
>
> http://www.theonion.com/content/video/more_american_workers_outsourcing
>
> 	
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