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<blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1104901" data-attributes="member: 945">Well, I just found out yesterday evening, and got some more details on it today, that about 650 people where I work (big 3 phone company; not WorldCom) are going to be outsourced.&nbsp; Apparently, to either IBM or EDS.&nbsp; Outsourcing, for those that don't know, is when they take white-collar jobs (programmers, accountants) and remove them from one company and send the jobs to a different company.&nbsp; When they move them overseas, it's called &quot;offshoring&quot;.&nbsp; A lot of the big tech firms (Dell, Oracle, Microsoft) does this nowaday. Apparently, in 6-8 months, the work my team has done will end up belonging to either EDS, or IBM.&nbsp; And I will either A) be hired by that company if they choose to hire me, if they believe my knowledge is valuable enough to them; B) be transitioned to another team within the company doing god-knows-what; or C) be laid off with a severance package.Why am I writing this here?&nbsp; I don't know.&nbsp; Wanted to vent I guess.&nbsp; Since this is where I hang out most days anyway.Anyway, anyone need a Unix/C programmer with 733t database skills? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="der_kluge, post: 1104901, member: 945"] Well, I just found out yesterday evening, and got some more details on it today, that about 650 people where I work (big 3 phone company; not WorldCom) are going to be outsourced. Apparently, to either IBM or EDS. Outsourcing, for those that don't know, is when they take white-collar jobs (programmers, accountants) and remove them from one company and send the jobs to a different company. When they move them overseas, it's called "offshoring". A lot of the big tech firms (Dell, Oracle, Microsoft) does this nowaday. Apparently, in 6-8 months, the work my team has done will end up belonging to either EDS, or IBM. And I will either A) be hired by that company if they choose to hire me, if they believe my knowledge is valuable enough to them; B) be transitioned to another team within the company doing god-knows-what; or C) be laid off with a severance package. Why am I writing this here? I don't know. Wanted to vent I guess. Since this is where I hang out most days anyway. Anyway, anyone need a Unix/C programmer with 733t database skills? :) [/QUOTE]

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