tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209652305505126884.post2486260857543005919..comments2023-07-10T05:21:21.626-07:00Comments on J. LLOYD MORGAN'S BLOG: A new form of slavery?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209652305505126884.post-47965022826648025262011-03-10T07:54:53.817-08:002011-03-10T07:54:53.817-08:00Here's a somewhat related anecdote from my wor...Here's a somewhat related anecdote from my work history. When I accepted a professional salaried position at a large financial institution, I worked very hard to learn everything I could about my position, my department, the company, the business, and the technology we used to get the job done. As a result, I became very effective and efficient at my job. From time to time I would end up putting in more than 40 hours per week, especially when "emergencies" would crop up at 4:45p EVERY Friday. As a result, I started leaving at 4:40p. Suddenly, the "emergencies" started cropping up earlier in the day on Friday. Weird, I know.<br />After about two years into that job, the company joined the outsourcing bandwagon and my job was eventually targeted. I didn't really have a problem with that, though, because I went on to more strategic work that mostly occurred during the hours of 9a-5p instead of the constant barrage of tough technical challenges and troubleshooting off hours, from a mobile phone, at restaurants, whatever, of my previous job. As I'm sure you've heard, a company outsources jobs primarily for two reasons: flexibility (it's easier to tell a vendor that you no longer need as many "resources" than to actually lay off your own employees) and cost savings (common amounts quoted in the industry at the time were that an IT worker in India would make about 14% of what somebody doing the same job in the US would). Even with the additional overhead required to move the job overseas and the technological expenses to enable it, the company SHOULD still come out way ahead, right? Well, at last count, the company to which my job was outsourced had twelve (12) people dedicated solely to the function, dedicated to the exact same set of applications, that I was handling by myself. I have nothing against Indian IT workers, nor do I have anything against my bosses in the US who made that initial decision. I do think it's hilariously short-sighted and poorly managed to pay AT LEAST twice as much (more likely about 4 or 5 times as much with overhead and technology costs) to employ a dozen people in a foreign country to do the same exact job that one person in the US was doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209652305505126884.post-33165949426739090722011-03-10T07:26:17.992-08:002011-03-10T07:26:17.992-08:00That is one of the best ways to tell whether you h...That is one of the best ways to tell whether you have a bad boss or work for a bad company. Salaried professionals are given more flexibility when they get their average of 40 hrs per week in. Sometimes it may be 50 in a week but then others it may be 30, and nobody should bat an eye when you leave early because you're done with your work. Employers who work you like a slave deserve to only have employees who are dumb enough to allow themselves to be "owned."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209652305505126884.post-76918572305509366962011-03-09T14:55:14.585-08:002011-03-09T14:55:14.585-08:00Just one more example of an irony lost on the main...Just one more example of an irony lost on the main stream media. Our first black President is not only re-enslaving blacks, but is taking it several steps further by enslaving all living Americans and their posterity for several generations to come. <br /><br />RandyRandallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11448875178701383642noreply@blogger.com