Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

[minestrone]

I have seen that happen actually years ago when outsourcing was the big thing. The project stalled as the bobs were are poor graduates but sold as experts and cost millions and had to be redone with a bunch of contractors (including me ). Didn't realise it still happens but I can guarantee it will fail and they will end up having to hire expensive experts to sort out the mess.

They just throw more bobs at the problem, what has happened is now probably irreversible for most places and one of the reasons I am very fussy about where I work.

Fairly common for financials to have offshored everything excluding high level dev, BA and PM work, that invariably means the lonely dev chasing up folk in India for a week to get something simple like the heap size of a server changed.

[Sysman]

If you can be replaced by a bob then your skills must be very limited.

Absolute crap.

[Unix]

Absolute crap.

Hahaha you been replaced by a bob haven't you?

I define a bob as a very low skilled cheap resource from a country with low education standards. (Just incase someone comes on saying there are bob Doctors etc).

[CoolCat]

Hahaha you been replaced by a bob haven't you?

I define a bob as a very low skilled cheap resource from a country with low education standards. (Just incase someone comes on saying there are bob Doctors etc).

Unix, you are clearly clueless and have not been around much.

I have seen many whole workforces, multi thousand people, replaced by Bobs, the good the bad and the exceptional.

I have worked inside Bob outsourcing outfits and know how evil they are.

To make light of this is a disgrace.

[Unix]

Unix, you are clearly clueless and have not been around much.

I have seen many whole workforces, multi thousand people, replaced by Bobs, the good the bad and the exceptional.

I have worked inside Bob outsourcing outfits and know how evil they are.

To make light of this is a disgrace.

Are we talking call centres here? I have seen the odd bob here and there, maybe its a London thing.

[Sysman]

Hahaha you been replaced by a bob haven't you?

Not me personally, but a bunch of excellent software engineers who used to give us top notch support were.

It isn't something you want to be gloating about, sunshine.

[Unix]

Not me personally, but a bunch of excellent software engineers who used to give us top notch support were.

It isn't something you want to be gloating about, sunshine.

There is excellent and then there is unbobabale!, I am the latter

[Sysman]

Feed not the troll; rather let it fester under its favourite bridge quietly interferring with its goat.

That's put a rather good image in my mind.

I shall savour it when he next posts some drivel which demonstrates his naïvety,

[Unix]

That's put a rather good image in my mind.

I shall savour it when he next posts some drivel which demonstrates his naïvety,

I have never been replaced by a bob neither has any of my friends, I have been contracting nearly 10 years. Im not saying it doesn't happen to lower skilled IT workers it clearly does.

[CoolCat]

Are we talking call centres here? I have seen the odd bob here and there, maybe its a London thing.

Unix you are clueless