noelstrom
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2 edits | reply to shaner
Re: Unionized cuts starting at Bell
said by shaner  :said by Sukunai :"Meanwhile, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said in a news release that the cuts are the result of outsourcing." Hmmm they deny it (Bell), but hmnm I seem to recall this was PRECISELY why Bell no longer gets any money from me these days. Care to show me where these office workers were outsourced to? The union yells "outsourcing" whenever a job is lost because they know people get pissed off by it. A lot of our network design work (people who draw new cable into our maps) is done by a Canadian firm called Prestiege. Ironically, they are mainly staffed by ex-Bell workers who took retirement packages.
The work annonuced yesterday - well that's now being done by a firm called Tech Mahindra in India. A fair sized chunk was sent in the summer. This is simply just the next phase. A lot of our business data equipment design work and database clean up is also being done by this firm - work that was being done by Bell employees just 6 months ago.
As mentioned - I believe my time in the company is now measured in weeks. What I do can easily be done offshore. In fact, a portion of my work, once it's out of my hands, goes to India, and doesn't return until the installation piece is required - simply because you can't install equipment from 4,000 kilometres away.
EDIT: Tech Mahindra's website |
