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"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife. -
One more round of cost cutting and our lives are in PC's hands.Originally posted by DaveB View Post -
Are you sure that's dollars, not rupees?Originally posted by DaveB View PostHis heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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So telling and so trueOriginally posted by DaveB View Post
With a strong dollar, a big part of the attraction was price. Engineers in India made around $5 an hour; it’s now $9 or $10, compared with $35 to $40 for those in the U.S. on an H1B visa, he said. But he’d tell clients the cheaper hourly wage equated to more like $80 because of the need for supervision, and he said his firm won back some business to fix mistakes.Comment
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I did one, small, piece of work with HCL (Not for, thank God) and I've never ever met a team of such incompetent, arrogant and useless pricks.Comment
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Suspicions arose when the cockpit voice warning system went off "...push forward the doings, the aircraft is plenty stalling."Originally posted by DaveB View Post"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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I think there's an intermediate round where PC is being PMed by suity.Originally posted by Old Greg View PostOne more round of cost cutting and our lives are in PC's hands.Comment
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Intermediate? That's the fail safe to ground the fleet.Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostI think there's an intermediate round where PC is being PMed by suity.Comment
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When they said grounded, they meant on the ground, not in the ground.Originally posted by Old Greg View PostIntermediate? That's the fail safe to ground the fleet.Comment
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I scrolled down...
I see Indian outsourcing (no surprise)
I scrolled down...
I see HCL
Oh for all that is even the tiniest bit holy even to an atheist. HCL. Seriously? FFS.Comment
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