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Faber Fedor faber-at-linuxnj.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:

> You may be closer than you think. A potential client I Was talking to
>
>is married to a VP of a large comapny.  We were discussing outsourcing
>and he mentioned (implying that the VPs were thinking this way) that
>outsourcing was being used to drop salary requirements for techs; move
>work offshore, lay off people, salaries drop, then bring the work back on
>shore hire the techies at much lower prices.
>
>Now, I'm not the type to wear tin-foil hats but I'm seriously thinking
>about it. :-)
>
>BTW, does anyone know of a successful off-shored project that wasn't
>brought back on-shore because it was a disaster?  I've never heard of
>one.
>

The threat is used all the time, but in my exerience good people who are 
threatened leave -- as opposed to settling for less pay. Maybe they 
don't lave right away, but they commit to leaving at first opportunity.

When a company burns its internal social assets it is doing so with a 
purpose; it has already made a decision to abandon the workers for a 
value proposition. Workers should not ignore those signs. It is my 
belief that most "sick" organizations are sick because management has 
made the decision, but failed to execute (yet) and the workers are in 
limbo (and in their guts they feel it). If workers took the clues and 
left, or if management made swift decisions, everyone would be better 
off. Unfirtunately senior management often second guesses itself, middle 
management holds on with disbelief or optimism, and the regular guys get 
screwed.

People say the rats are the first off a sinking ship because they can 
smell the future. The truth is the holds at the bottom of the ship fill 
with water first, causing the rats to run for dry land while everyone 
else waits around unaware that the holds are full of water and the ship 
is sinking.