14 replies to this topic

[noxorc]

I have to go to Colorado soon for work.

I have never meet my boss in person, only talk over the phone.

I have not seen a co-worker since 2007.

-nox

[skully]

what the heck do you do ?
Rob ...

Edited by skully, 08 February 2012 - 08:06 AM.

[W8in4SNO]

noxorc, on 08 February 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

I have to go to Colorado soon for work.

I have never meet my boss in person, only talk over the phone.

I have not seen a co-worker since 2007.

-nox

I have a very similar situation, en employee of mine out of Swede, going on 3 years, never met him...

My other 4 engineers strewn about the US... we've only gotten together once in about the last 6 years.

[NHsledin]

I wish I didn't see mine.

[noxorc]

skully, on 08 February 2012 - 08:05 AM, said:

what the heck do you do ?
Rob ...

Kernel engineer on Linux @ hewlett-packard. Just transferred my HP-UX work to India.

Edited by noxorc, 08 February 2012 - 04:13 PM.

[hammerhead71]

That is sweet,have fun.

[ColdBrew]

noxorc, on 08 February 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

I have to go to Colorado soon for work.

I have never meet my boss in person, only talk over the phone.

I have not seen a co-worker since 2007.

-nox

Try to get pictures of them taking your Polaris out of the plane's luggage hold.

[W8in4SNO]

noxorc, on 08 February 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

Kernel engineer on Linux @ hewlett-packard. Just transferred my HP-UX work to India.

The last 1.5% of our North American based (Canadians BTW) SW expertise was "transferred" to India about 2 months ago, your fortunate your entire pay check wasn't transferred/distributed to the 25 people they hired to replace your knowledge...

So tonight for instance, i gotta call India inbetween periods of the B's game to get an answer (which i won't understand for multiple reasons) to a question.

[noxorc]

ColdBrew, on 08 February 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

Try to get pictures of them taking your Polaris out of the plane's luggage hold.

Now that WOULD be a funny picture.

W8in4SNO, on 08 February 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

So tonight for instance, i gotta call India inbetween periods of the B's game to get an answer (which i won't understand for multiple reasons) to a question.

Complete understand and agree.

[Baron62]

I work as an IT Project Manager and work with many on-site Indian resources. They back up the truck and unload them by the hundreds with no interviews and a high turnover rate. Development costs have increased, quality is poor and projects take longer. It is very fustrating now and much more difficult to be productive. I feel this is one of the biggest areas impacting our economy now and it is very widespread. Replacing a skilled american worker with 3 unskilled workers who take most of their money home is bad for many stakeholders in the community. You don't see many of them spending money on snowmobiling. As individuals many of them are very nice people, but the the model doesn't make sense in most cases I have seen.

[ICG]

ColdBrew, on 08 February 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

Try to get pictures of them taking your Polaris out of the plane's luggage hold.

Nox this may be easier than you think... When you call the good people at Netjet or Skyjet ask them if they could substitute a Sherpa that will accomodate your sled in the cargo area

Now the expense account, I can't say if they won't notice the Sherpa on your expense account.

[noxorc]

My group is SO tight for money. They won't even buy a webcam so we can see each other.

Excuse me? HP, WEBCAM? Ya think they have any in stock? Even buy one at a Discount? NOPE!

[Penelope]

Baron62, on 08 February 2012 - 10:30 PM, said:

I work as an IT Project Manager and work with many on-site Indian resources. They back up the truck and unload them by the hundreds with no interviews and a high turnover rate. Development costs have increased, quality is poor and projects take longer. It is very fustrating now and much more difficult to be productive. I feel this is one of the biggest areas impacting our economy now and it is very widespread. Replacing a skilled american worker with 3 unskilled workers who take most of their money home is bad for many stakeholders in the community. You don't see many of them spending money on snowmobiling. As individuals many of them are very nice people, but the the model doesn't make sense in most cases I have seen.

My husband used to have a lot of customers who were from India, I had a hard time understanding some of them. The downside is I now miss them because most of them are gone and the machines are now in China

[pekabu]

I've seen worked on a bunch of projects that were outsourced, and lost some jobs sent to china. Very discouraging. One project that moved to India was a spreadsheet, first release they shipped wouldn't print. Minor detail.

[Terry]

Hey Nigel,
Best of luck out there. Maybe you can get a mountain sled and do some real riding.
Don't forget to post your super videos back to Sled NH.

Terry