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fuzzygrufAll afternoon I was stuck in meetings. Our bi-weekly staff meeting was spent discussing offshore questions to ask our VP during the next hour. That last right up until 3pm.
The 3pm meeting with the VP revealed little news. They are looking to decide in the next 4-5 weeks which projects/groups will be next to be offshored. We should be told in September, but with "knowledge acquistion" (training our replacements), it'll probably be a few months before jobs are gone. Besides project development work, the other buzzword was sending "steady state" work offshore. I guess those are routine tasks that are deemed "offshoreable." It turns out that the CIO is going about this with employees in mind rather than for the most savings. Instead of figuring out how much can be sent offshore, he was told to trim the budget by $20 million in 2004. Changing the ratio of onshore contractors from 15% to 5% and increasing the ratio of offshore work from 10% to 20%, the cost savings can be realized. Of course, the jobs are eliminated by project, so some FTE's will be dismissed instead of contractors. Had he been thinking about the company profits, he wouldn't try to just reduce contractors, but FTE's as well in order to make company savings significantly more than $20 million. Rumor is that our department is slated to be picked next month.
The 3pm meeting should have ended at 4pm, but it went until about 4:30pm. I left the meeting around 4:25pm (we were free to leave after 4pm) in order to catch the Caltrain to Steve's for ECR square dancing. Not wanting to risk missing the 5pm train, I hoofed it over to Caltrain station. If I were to wait for the N-Mission Bay, there's a chance I'd miss the train if I timed it wrong. It takes about 20-25 minutes on foot.
Got to Belmont around 5:45pm. For a quick dinner, Steve went to the Chinese restaurant near St. Andrews. Nothing on the menu was Atkins-friendly. I had some tea and a diet coke. Afterwards, I picked up some Muenster cheese at the grocery store next door.
It was "Take No Prisoners" hard Plus night at the club. Steve and I wore our Alcatraz prisoner hats. That got some chuckles. I went ahead and danced "boy" all night and didn't have any real problems. If I can do that for hard Plus, I guess that makes me bi-dansual. Woohoo! Now I can dance with the cute guys, no matter which part they dance!
After dancing, we came back to Steve's and I climbed the ladder to get down all the stuff from Steve's storage space above his garage. Glad that's done! I watched some of West Wing on Bravo, then went to bed around 11:30pm. The alarm at 5:50am made for an early start.
Checked my Bank of America account online as I do every day. They've added a new feature where you can view images of cashed checks. Woohoo! Their offshore developers have been busy.
The 3pm meeting with the VP revealed little news. They are looking to decide in the next 4-5 weeks which projects/groups will be next to be offshored. We should be told in September, but with "knowledge acquistion" (training our replacements), it'll probably be a few months before jobs are gone. Besides project development work, the other buzzword was sending "steady state" work offshore. I guess those are routine tasks that are deemed "offshoreable." It turns out that the CIO is going about this with employees in mind rather than for the most savings. Instead of figuring out how much can be sent offshore, he was told to trim the budget by $20 million in 2004. Changing the ratio of onshore contractors from 15% to 5% and increasing the ratio of offshore work from 10% to 20%, the cost savings can be realized. Of course, the jobs are eliminated by project, so some FTE's will be dismissed instead of contractors. Had he been thinking about the company profits, he wouldn't try to just reduce contractors, but FTE's as well in order to make company savings significantly more than $20 million. Rumor is that our department is slated to be picked next month.
The 3pm meeting should have ended at 4pm, but it went until about 4:30pm. I left the meeting around 4:25pm (we were free to leave after 4pm) in order to catch the Caltrain to Steve's for ECR square dancing. Not wanting to risk missing the 5pm train, I hoofed it over to Caltrain station. If I were to wait for the N-Mission Bay, there's a chance I'd miss the train if I timed it wrong. It takes about 20-25 minutes on foot.
Got to Belmont around 5:45pm. For a quick dinner, Steve went to the Chinese restaurant near St. Andrews. Nothing on the menu was Atkins-friendly. I had some tea and a diet coke. Afterwards, I picked up some Muenster cheese at the grocery store next door.
It was "Take No Prisoners" hard Plus night at the club. Steve and I wore our Alcatraz prisoner hats. That got some chuckles. I went ahead and danced "boy" all night and didn't have any real problems. If I can do that for hard Plus, I guess that makes me bi-dansual. Woohoo! Now I can dance with the cute guys, no matter which part they dance!
After dancing, we came back to Steve's and I climbed the ladder to get down all the stuff from Steve's storage space above his garage. Glad that's done! I watched some of West Wing on Bravo, then went to bed around 11:30pm. The alarm at 5:50am made for an early start.
Checked my Bank of America account online as I do every day. They've added a new feature where you can view images of cashed checks. Woohoo! Their offshore developers have been busy.
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Date: 2003-08-15 08:42 am (UTC)