The company that I work (contract) for have just been told that the main customer they provide support for has potentially awarded the work to someone else.
The winner of the contract is a large, global IT provider specialising in different “business strands” including manufacturing, government and automotive. They have over 289 thousand employees in more than 80 countries and have an annual revenues of over $28 billion.
They also are based from and have a large Service Desk presence in India too….
I’m sure this all seems very familiar to me and other people that know me.
Still - at least as a contractor I feel obliged to spread the message of doom and gloom to all without fear of corporate repercussions. Already people are saying how great it will be to work for a “big company” if they get TUPE’ed over with the work.
What they don’t realise is that working for a big company also means you become only one of those 289 thousand employees. And to the people sitting at the top of the tree, the 289,001th person is just a cost to them - nothing more than that. Operational need, expertise, past work history and performance mean nothing to them.
You are just a number…
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
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Sounds very similar to me too, perhaps you should stay and re-invest into you (Non Final Salary)
Sounds very similar to me too, perhaps you should stay and re-invest into you (Non Final Salary) pension…
Maybe not
Yup, same shit, just a different company to go through the same outsourcing experience. I fully expect the same to happen to me in the next 12 months……….
Who are you? I am not a number, I am a free man!
It’s just being able to convince the people here that it might not be a good thing to join a super-mega-global-corp - although they look good on paper.
@Bigfootcookie - was it not you who, in a meeting before we were rolled over said “if i was looking for a job now - i would be looking to join an IT company”. In hindsight it is still true. We just got caught in the fact that we actually joined an IT outsourcing company. The real difference is VAST.
@Damo
At least you got out before the shit hit the fan too heavily. Well. When I say “got out” I meant “forced to leave on legal reasons”.
Oh yes. The gaping chasm in the difference between an IT company and an IT outsourcing company.
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