More layoffs looming

DH learned yesterday that his account will be having more layoffs by June. The contract for his account was renegotiated. They finalized it late last month. Production support, DH's area, will stay on shore (thank you God), but projects will be shifted primarily to off shore resources. This doesn't guarantee DH will be safe, but he's safer than the project people.

You know, it's pathetic. DH was telling me about a project for which the off shore resources had estimated 1000 hours of labor to complete. Well, they were having problems with it, so two of the on shore people went over and finished the project with less than 40 hours between the two of them. DH also learned that the off shore people were estimating a certain function for 100 hours. DH used to perform that same function in less than two hours.

When are these big organizations going to learn that a lower per hour cost doesn't necessarily equate to a lower final cost? They're getting what they pay for and they're not seeing it. How they can miss it is beyond me. Yes, the on shore resources cost more than 4 times more per hour, but they can do the work in a very small fraction of the time.

Those who make the decisions are so short sighted. No wonder we're in a world wide recession. They've screwed us over.

Off my soap box. If I go on much longer, I'm going to get mad. As it is, I'm only disgusted.