Problem with outsourcing to the UK.

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al_cam replied

31 July 2012, 20:44
Things like this seem to be quite common IME, best was when some of the Bangalore based Bobs in my team turned up one day because a big Indian film star had died and they were mourning - FFS!
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eek replied

31 July 2012, 13:34
Its nice to see that the repairs went as well as RBS's

BBC News - Hundreds of millions without power in India down again taking a bigger part of the network offline.
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BolshieBastard replied

31 July 2012, 13:26
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

BBC News - Power cut hits northern India causing major disruption

From the article :-

Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said "Early diagnosis shows much outsourcing of code to the UK to be the major issue. Malcolm may provide much cheapness - but Bob provides plenty reliability".

Cheeky twats! Outsourced UK code, indeed.
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SimonMac replied

31 July 2012, 12:52
Originally posted by Sysman View Post

Proof that:

Outsourcing doesn't save money

Outsourcing doesn't mean better quality results

QED
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Sysman replied

30 July 2012, 10:46
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Could we outsource parliament?

Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

We already have... to Brussels.

Proof that:

Outsourcing doesn't save money

Outsourcing doesn't mean better quality results

QED
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northernladuk replied

30 July 2012, 10:26
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Could we outsource parliament?

We already have... to Brussels.
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BrilloPad replied

30 July 2012, 10:25
Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post

They need more wind generators.

Could we outsource parliament?
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BlasterBates replied

30 July 2012, 10:24
They need more wind generators.
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AtW replied

30 July 2012, 10:21
Outsourcing is done for costs reasons, not to improve quality of service.
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BrilloPad started a topic Problem with outsourcing to the UK.

30 July 2012, 10:20
Problem with outsourcing to the UK.

BBC News - Power cut hits northern India causing major disruption

From the article :-

Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said "Early diagnosis shows much outsourcing of code to the UK to be the major issue. Malcolm may provide much cheapness - but Bob provides plenty reliability".
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