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Being back from the last three days in Phoenix at 115 in the shade, frankly, while it’s cooler here, it really isn’t any more comfortable today than Phoenix.

This morning, it was 94 at 6AM, an completely comfortable outside in cargo shorts and light shirt in Phoenix. Only in the late afternoon does it get very unbearable and once the sun goes down, even though it’ll still be 105 it’s actually quit comfortable.

The weekend heat there really felt about as bad as mid-90s in inland OC.

In either place, working outside in direct sunlight post noon is extremely uncomfortable.

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Good article. I use amazon a lot and have tracked them since inception. I’ve never understood why amazon was allowed to practice predatory pricing for years before raising prices after crippling many competitors.

Sure that wasn’t their story line, but price rise was obvious from the start.

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People like the glimmers of truth they hear. Things like his comment about buying all the people on stage with him and Hillary too. When the moderator pressed on what he got he basic said I said come to my wedding and she did.

Trump’s strength comes from when he’s says stuff like build the wall and immigration is broken people believe that’s what he really thinks.

When every other Republican or democratic front runner says something, they think that’s what they think I want to hear. Because the majority really don’t want to parse Jeb’s or any other candidates, ‘it’s not amnesty path to citizenship for those already here illegally’

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Wow you mean there still a company out their offering real vacation and not the minimum 2 weeks?

As for the no accrual it really depends on company culture, your organizations subculture at the VP+ level and the relationship between them and the finance department.

It can be as flu stated or end up where someone is second guessing your manager on every vacation day you take over some arbitrary allocation in their mind. I.e. The finance head may he thinking new emps should only get two weeks.

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So just more evidence that the government is lying and covering up. Not shocking but people need to start smelling the coffee on how petty and vindictive the two parties and all their key players are.
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ERP typically hits Finance and the core business Operations.

Those same groups, typically try to penny pinch on other IT projects and typically then get mediocre results. So when it comes to their primary work flow tool, they feel like they need to buy quality.

The projects often go completely off the rails and projects then get sponsored to fix the problem with the app affecting the core business, they’ll pay even more for that.

Honestly, I’ve seen companies just lose their minds with major ERP implementations, literally, little companies, sub-billion, sub-$500 million spending $20-$30 million on ERP armies of off-shore consultants 70-80 developers customize code to work. Insanity. And of course, it works like a cobbled together mess because the businesss refuses to think that they don’t have a ‘best practice’ that they are insisting on being customised.

But in the end, the companies go with the ‘safe’ big house consulting solution, pay through the nose for it and the houses know it, so that decision makers minimize being the scapegoat for what ultimately will be a failed massive expenditure, because many business stakeholders approach it with the same realism that approach things like dieting.

/cyncism.

And a jaded IT guy would ask if $200K is enough to watch a slow motion train wreck unfurl over a year knowing the whole time, you’ll be the primary target of blame and will have to defend it and fight to then continue getting your company paid?

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[quote=all]The market is truly global. I work at a small company and I coordinate with or lead people working in 8 different time zones. I wish I had some of those guys in the office with me, but few that I did ask were not interested in relocating to the US.

So, the alternative to an H1B worker sitting in a cubicle here is the same guy sitting in a cubicle overseas working for you (if you are lucky), or competing with you. The article the OP posted says as much – 70% of the work is being offshored.[/quote]

Yea, that’s been the story at the last five companies I’ve been at. Of course, the USA staff is expected to suck up the gaps at the moment since availability out of the office in many of those locations is poor, but the work is going, actually, like manufacturing, it’s largely gone. The mid-level guys don’t really exist on shore anymore because we quit hiring on-shore entry level guys 5-10 years ago.

The model going forward is simple:
1) exploit niche to high level
2) exit niche when commoditizes
3) retrain to new niche

or exit the line of work and move to something else, however medical, accounting, any skilled profession is going the way of global commodity.

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What you described flu is the way H1-B is supposed to work, staffing of a position with niche or difficult to find skills. When you look across the country how many do you see like them?

As opposed to were I’ve see many h1bs, windows support engineer III or the equivalent.

I have no concerns with the program being used for niche requirements, I do when it’s used for rank and file.

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[quote=kev374]I’m surprised at all these high salaries considering it is extremely difficult to get a job in Software Engineering right now. A friend of mine has been searching for over 2 months in the Bay Area and hasn’t found anything yet. His skills are in Informatica and MicroStrategy. Another one I know is Sr. Java with 15 years and can’t find anything, a hiring manager mentioned that there were 50 resumes from Indian temp workers (who have creatively circumvented H1b laws) on his desk within a day for 1 open position…that’s where this competition is coming from.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Silicon-Valleys-Body-Shop-Secret-280567322.html%5B/quote%5D

Yea, that’s a game that’s catching on leveraging h-2bs too. You take a guy from India, pay him top of India pay, fly him over, pay per diem him for hotel and food and cut the on shore rate a little bit. The contract house goes from a 20-30% margin to an 70-80% margin and the client sees 20-30%contract rate reduction. One hour a day covers expenses and the rest is gravy. The India person is making $20/hr but shipping it all home and it’s better money and better conditions than working there.

Plus creative resume writing. But no one cares, they’re disposable, if they don’t work out you kick’em out, send them home and bring in indentured servant 156,007 of 1,200,000,009.

Cynical, I’m way too cynical.

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Smart companies are reshoring to the US. Companies kicking the can down the road trying to eek out margin to keep the C-level bankroll rolling are outsourcing knowing it’ll take 5+ years to fall apart and by then they’re all moving on.

Geez, I’ve gotten cynical.

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I fully agree with you however it’s rare for companies being willing to see it even when it’s beating them over the head. Then when it is beating them over the head they Need to work through all the finger pointing of who isn’t getting it done, sometimes several cycles of blame game before they see that what they bought and what they got aren’t the same and that work teams spanning the globe of mid level people introduce significant diseconomies.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Outsourcing to India is not as easy as it sounds and not a cheap as it used to be.

(unless you want lousy work done).

Very very hard to get someone there at 11:00 AM here and work for more than a few months before quitting,

Actually much easier to hire someone here to work from midnight to 9 AM than it is in India.[/quote]

Doesn’t matter, the decisions makers don’t believe your excuses and the people selling the services blow massive sunshine saying otherwise.

In the end, it’s a spreadsheet showing a guy like flu making $200K a year here and a guy ‘like’ flu there making the equivalent of $40k.

Mid-level technical people can be staffed for sub-$10/hr there.

Thin the herd, make the staffing someone elses problem, give them a margin slice and take a fabled 30% of your labor expense.

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I don’t know, I think US society is approaching if not at the tipping point were the combination of young naive idealists and disenfranchised and marginalized people are becoming the majority. Even quite a few quite successful people recognize the increasingly capricious outcomes of the biased and often times corrupt system.

Historically that’s been a bad combo.

Candidates like Hillary, Jeb, and Christy of the strong stink of same old BS all over them.

They all remind me of Amy screaming at the Pres in veep about be the last…

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Polygamy is like incorporation just without the limits to liability..

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[quote=spdrun]Jeebus X. Khrist on a unicycle, no sense of humor here?

I’m all for watching a good political fight. ding-ding-ding BRING IT![/quote]

I’m not, we’ve had between 15-25 of mind-numbing political fighting for my side versus your side.

Where has it gotten us? 15 years of war. another $12 Trillion in debt, neutured corporate oversight, government by dollar.

Sure, gay marriage is a victory, while we’ve nibbled away on reproductive rights, turned the country into a police state.

So we’ve gained the right to to have gays get married by giving away how much more over the last 15 years of political fighting? This is the true cost of my side and the wrong side view to politics.

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