Text 4849, 48 rader
Skriven 2005-06-12 00:15:26 av JaneL (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 4847 av Rich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: switching employers
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From: "JaneL" <nospam@noemail>

"Randy" <@> wrote in message news:42ab95d8$1@w3.nls.net...

>In my corner of the world we routinely 'horse-traded' amongst several
different business-specific IT organizations
>

A similar thing has also happened around here with the latest chapter unfolding
even now.

There are (or were) 3 fairly large shops in town:  a Large insurance company, a
Large provider of health care services and coverage, and a branch of a Large
international food provider (ie grocery stores).  I've worked for 2 of them as
well as a couple of smaller ones.

There are other large shops in town, but these three had very similar
environments making it easy enough to integrate each other's employees.  For
years, people rotated around to the point that the joke at work was that pretty
soon we would just call in every morning to find out which one to report to for
that day.  It was particularly amusing that two of them were across the street
from one another in the same office park.

The job market around here hasn't been too good for the last few years:

- Large company #3 fell victim to accounting fiddles and is steadily
shrinking.

- Large company #2 decided to outsource most of the work in the office here
to Ireland and decamped leaving a skeleton crew living on what we all thought
was borrowed time.  About 120 of us were downsized.

- Large company #1 did a good bit of cutting dead wood and then starting
growing again.  That's where I am now - back where I started from.

How'd that offshoring for Large company #2 work out?  Not too good!
Theeyyy'rrrreee baacccckkkk!  They're re-opening the office here and openly
courting their former employees with flattery and large amounts of $$$. Large
company #1 is being particularly targeted since that's where most of them ended
up.  Offers are being made, and the resignations are beginning to fly.  So far,
management's take on it is that they'll just backfill with Cognizant.  We'll
see.

I love churn.  It's usually good for the pocketbook.  And also good for Large
company #1's soul not to be the only game in town.

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