Miners, shipbuilders, IT contractors?

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3. The outsourcing to India is IMHO just a phase. New managers like to try and impress by doing something so they jump on the nearest bandwagon - currently outsourcing. We all know by now that it's a rubbish idea that saves no money - give a year or two and management will start to notice that as well. Then managers will be jumping on the new cost-saving bandwagon... bringing IT back in house where we have more control etc etc etc *yawn*

I've just had to apply for an Indian visa to visit Goa. Every manager who is considering outsourcing should have to go through that process, then they can see exactly how rubbish their IT systems will end up and the kind of hopelessly inefficient bureaucracy they will have to deal with.

The thing is, I've seen it labelled as a phase for some time now, and it's not one that shows any sign of slowing down from my expereince. In fact i'm working somewhere that is just starting down the road of outsourcing.

And I have three Indian Visas in my paassport, two of which are blanks done in error which always cause issues at border control around the world, so I concur on your last statement.