A message to business analysts

[wobbegong]

The UK will learn the "Dubai lesson"; that cheap is not always best.

A good friend of mine works in a Dubai development project. They are recruiting extensively from the Indian subcontinent for their labour, merely because it's cheap. As my friend says, "last week these guys were in the fields of Bangladesh/Pakistan/India, now they're "construction workers". A lot of their "prestigious" buildings are apparently already showing (albeit from a constructors eye) signs of failure/decay.

"Third World" call centres are becoming a turn off to many due to a poor standard of service, and those establishments that have invested heavily in them will be left counting the cost, both financially and in terms of lost customers.

[NickFitz]

Rubbish, defeatist talk of a real loser - this job is pretty safe in my book.

Nice MacBook in there

[NickFitz]

Anyway, getting back to the thread...

Has anybody ever been so dumb as to think their "job" is "safe" since the 1980s? I learnt back than that absolutely nothing is "safe" when it comes to making a living. The idea of secure employment died sometime around 1979. Anybody, contract or perm, who has imagined that their source of income has been in any way "safe" since then is an idiot.

[suityou01]

Anyway, getting back to the thread...

Has anybody ever been so dumb as to think their "job" is "safe" since the 1980s? I learnt back than that absolutely nothing is "safe" when it comes to making a living. The idea of secure employment died sometime around 1979. Anybody, contract or perm, who has imagined that their source of income has been in any way "safe" since then is an idiot.

Apart from civil servants. Job for life that one. You can be rubbish [the rubbisher the better methinks - think Dicky's experiences down the dole office] and still hang onto your job, super inflationery pay rises and good pension.

Hold on, I'm in the wrong job ...

<.... door slams>

[RichardCranium]

Apart from civil servants. Job for life that one.

It hasn't been for some years. They get TUPEd and then often laid off the next day.

When the current bunch of Tories-painted-red got in, the civil servants at that ClientDept were over the moon because it meant the big outsourcing project would be stopped, didn't it? But then the message came down: "Full steam ahead doing whatever you were doing before".

They were not happy civil servants after that. Many weren't civil servants at all. Or any other kind of employee, either.

[RichardCranium]

A message to business analysts.

Your job is not safe. If the company wants to outsource, your job is at risk too.

At a previous public sector client, the entire business analysis and process re-engineeering teams were all Bobs, which made it rather clear which way the wind was blowing there.

[cojak]

"Nothing is as good or as bad as it first appears"

My experience has found that this saying is an accurate reflection on life.

I hold onto it like a life-raft...

[mudskipper]

"Nothing is as good or as bad as it first appears"

My experience has found that this saying is an accurate reflection on life.

I hold onto it like a life-raft...

I think I prefer
"Now and again it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate." (Bright Eyes)