#offshore

Cyber: F5 experienced the same breach in March 2021. In Nov 2021 they announced they’re doubling their India staff which is now 20% of their headcount.

The WFH engineering is entirely in India. Only pre-sales and service engineers in US. None of these cyber SME’s will investigate India or the Beijing operations but I bet they’ll find a previously unknown vulnerability.

BTW India outlaws VPNs and these dudes WFH on Huawei networks. What happens to encrypted data traveling through China where encryption is illegal? Good question - cryptologists don’t seem to know. Bet they had anonymous security groups and no one checked logs so they didn’t even know. 95% of breaches involve insiders - negligence or intentional theft. I call it the offshore 401K.

H1-B holders are disappearing

Next trip is heavily tax and higher tariff on companies hiring on offshore operations.

Anyone know?

1) Does the 8 hours count working with offshore at night? If no, I'll ignore them till next morning

2) Does putting in extra hours on weekends help?

3) Is 5-6 hours + 2-3 hours office + home acceptable? Bridgets email does indicate so.

Posted on Chevron's Board:

Stop Selling Out Our Future

Friends,

Across forums, industry conversations, and personal exchanges, one theme keeps repeating: Offshoring and particularly to low cost labor markets like India.

Let’s be clear:

Our operations are built on national resources—oil, gas, and energy that are the wealth of nations. These resources, while vital, come with environmental costs we all understand. And yet, instead of converting this sacrifice into livelihoods for the people of the very nations whose resources we exploit, we see record levels of offshoring.

This is not the same as IT or banking outsourcing. Natural resources are not just corporate assets, they are national wealth.

To offshore the jobs tied to them is not just cost-cutting, it is economic plunder.

The scale of this shift is hidden. Official headcount reports disguise the reality. If we include not just GCC centers but also third-party service providers, the imbalance is shocking-only a fraction of roles remain in base countries, while the majority are quietly shipped overseas.

In reality, No MC, C-suite, or shareholder vote should decide who benefits from national resources. That right belongs to the people and their governments.

The problem is, most people, even in government, don’t know the scale of what’s happening. It is happening quietly, and rapidly.

That’s why every one of us has a role to play. Even small actions matter:
• Write to your representatives.
• Raise awareness within your networks.
• Push for transparency in how resource-linked jobs are allocated.

This is not about one company or one industry. This is about ensuring our resources create futures for our people, not just cheap profits offshore.
If we don’t act now, we risk handing away not only our jobs but our children’s right to benefit from their own nation’s wealth

#Offshoring #Offshore #OilAndGas #JobSafety

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Nothing more ridiculous than politicians using Imperial’s announcement as a distraction to blame each other for policies or tie Carney to Brookfield.

No the campus is not being sold to Brookfield. It’s a local firm.

Make sure they redirect back to the main them. Offshoring of jobs.

They are doing nothing to prevent offshoring of jobs.

Friends,
Across forums, industry conversations, and personal exchanges, one theme keeps repeating-
Offshoring and particularly to low cost labor markets like India.

Let’s be clear:
Our operations are built on national resources—oil, gas, and energy that are the wealth of nations. These resources, while vital, come with environmental costs we all understand. And yet, instead of converting this sacrifice into livelihoods for the people of the very nations whose resources we exploit, we see record levels of offshoring.
This is not the same as IT or banking outsourcing. Natural resources are not just corporate assets, they are national wealth.
To offshore the jobs tied to them is not just cost-cutting, it is economic plunder.

The scale of this shift is hidden. Official headcount reports disguise the reality. If we include not just GCC centers but also third-party service providers, the imbalance is shocking-only a fraction of roles remain in base countries, while the majority are quietly shipped overseas.

In reality, No MC, C-suite, or shareholder vote should decide who benefits from national resources. That right belongs to the people and their governments.

The problem is, most people, even in government, don’t know the scale of what’s happening. It is happening quietly, and rapidly.

That’s why every one of us has a role to play. Even small actions matter:
• Write to your representatives.
• Raise awareness within your networks.
• Push for transparency in how resource-linked jobs are allocated.

This is not about one company or one industry. This is about ensuring our resources create futures for our people, not just cheap profits offshore.
If we don’t act now, we risk handing away not only our jobs but our children’s right to benefit from their own nation’s wealth

First of all, my heart goes out to our European, Canadian, and Singapore colleagues.
Great friends, fine professionals, and true believers in EM core values.

Across forums, industry conversations, and personal exchanges, one theme keeps repeating-
Offshoring and particularly to low cost labor markets like India.

Let’s be clear:
Our operations are built on national resources—oil, gas, and energy that are the wealth of nations. These resources, while vital, come with environmental costs we all understand. And yet, instead of converting this sacrifice into livelihoods for the people of the very nations whose resources we exploit, we see record levels of offshoring.
This is not the same as IT or banking outsourcing. Natural resources are not just corporate assets, they are national wealth.
To offshore the jobs tied to them is not just cost-cutting, it is economic plunder.

The scale of this shift is hidden. Official headcount reports disguise the reality. If we include not just GCC centers but also third-party service providers, the imbalance is shocking-only a fraction of roles remain in base countries, while the majority are quietly shipped overseas.

In reality, No MC, C-suite, or shareholder vote should decide who benefits from national resources. That right belongs to the people and their governments.

The problem is, most people, even in government, don’t know the scale of what’s happening. It is happening quietly, and rapidly.

That’s why every one of us has a role to play. Even small actions matter:
• Write to your representatives.
• Raise awareness within your networks.
• Push for transparency in how resource-linked jobs are allocated.

This is not about one company or one industry. This is about ensuring our resources create futures for our people, not just cheap profits offshore.
If we don’t act now, we risk handing away not only our jobs but our children’s right to benefit from their own nation’s wealth

Folks, the real problem is short-term thinking versus long-term vision. Under the guise of annual PDS reviews, promotions, and showing immediate business value, we’ve completely lost sight of the long-term consequences.

This BTC offshoring is just the beginning. They’re bringing in people willing to work for a meal a day, and that’s the standard they’re setting. Other companies will follow our mistake, creating a trap for everyone.

Don’t wait until your job is taken away—fight against outsourcing like it’s a national emergency. You might survive the next 5–20 years, but what about the next generation? They could be left with no opportunities.

We can’t compete against 500–600 million graduates willing to work for peanuts. This isn’t just a corporate decision—it’s a systemic issue on the scale of capitalism versus communism, world wars, or global epidemics. These global capability centers are designed to destroy livelihoods to boost profits and deliver short-term shareholder gains.

Wake up and act before it’s too late.

Friends, Imperial Oil is offshoring thousands of Calgary jobs while taking advantage of Alberta’s resources, tax breaks, and our province’s livelihood. We can’t let this go unchallenged. Here’s what you can do today:

1.  Write to your MLA and MP demanding they stop public benefits to companies that offshore Canadian jobs.
2.  Write to local and national newspapers (Calgary Herald, Globe & Mail, CBC, etc.) to expose how Imperial is abandoning Alberta workers.
3.  Write to the Alberta Energy Regulator and other agencies asking them to review Imperial’s operations and hold them accountable for both job losses and environmental impacts.

1. Template-
   Dear [MLA/MP Name],

I am writing as a concerned Albertan. Imperial Oil has announced mass layoffs in Calgary while offshoring all these jobs to India. This is a betrayal of our province and its people, especially after Imperial benefited from Alberta’s resources, tax breaks, and royalty concessions.

What’s worse — Imperial is not scaling down operations. The company plans to increase oil sands output while offshoring even more Canadian jobs abroad.

I urge you to:

1. Publicly demand that Imperial disclose the number of jobs being offshored.
2. Push for clawbacks on any tax or royalty benefits if jobs are moved overseas.
3. Support legislation requiring companies receiving public benefits to keep jobs in Canada.

Albertans deserve leaders who will defend local jobs and hold corporations accountable. Please let me know what actions you will take.

Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
[Your City, Alberta]

2-
To the Editor,

Imperial Oil is offshoring thousands of Calgary jobs while continuing to profit from Alberta’s oil sands and enjoy generous tax and royalty concessions. This decision guts our community, threatens livelihoods, and sends Canadian prosperity abroad while leaving behind environmental and social costs.

Importantly, Imperial is not reducing operations — in fact, the company plans to pump even more barrels while cutting Alberta jobs and shipping the work overseas.

We should not reward corporations that abandon Alberta workers. Imperial must be held accountable — through public scrutiny, political action, and regulatory oversight. Our leaders must make it clear: if you benefit from Alberta’s resources, you must also invest in Alberta’s people.

Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
[Your City]

3-
To Whom It May Concern,

I am requesting that the Alberta Energy Regulator and related oversight bodies review Imperial Oil’s recent decision to offshore large portions of its Calgary workforce. These job cuts raise serious concerns about the company’s ability to maintain adequate local oversight, environmental monitoring, and compliance at its oil sands operations.

Given Imperial’s history of environmental violations and the importance of Alberta jobs tied to resource development, we need transparency on how these workforce changes affect safety, compliance, and community obligations.

I urge you to require Imperial to disclose the scale of offshoring and to assess its impact on operational accountability in Alberta.

Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
[Your City]

30 years ago, when they moved factory jobs to Asia, you said “none of my business, let those low-skilled jobs go.”
15 years ago, when they moved office jobs to Argentina, you said “none of my business, I have an engineering degree from MIT.”
Today, when they move engineering jobs to India, what you have to say?
You need to act! Don’t let those white males use things like DEI and climate hoax to distract you, and in 10 years, US will have no jobs!

This is what they hope / think / expect may happen - extreme (they use that word, yes) offshoring and near-shoring (to the East and to the South, respectively):

"Such a rush could lead to "extreme offshoring" in some cases, said Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, a former managing director of Cognizant India, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic had shown key tech tasks could be done from anywhere."

"If Trump's visa curbs go unchallenged, industry experts expect US firms to shift high-end work tied to AI, product development, cybersecurity, and analytics to their India GCCs, choosing to keep strategic functions in-house over outsourcing."

"Either more roles will move to India, or corporations will near-shore them to Mexico or Colombia. Canada could also take advantage," said the India head of a retail GCC."

"While the $283-billion IT industry that contributes nearly 8% of India's GDP may feel the strain, surging demand for GCC services could cushion such a blow, however."

"Lost revenues from H-1B visa reliant businesses could be somewhat supplanted by higher services exports through GCCs, as US-based firms look to bypass immigration restrictions to outsource talent," Nomura analysts said in a research note last week."

More in the article: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-firms-to-consider-shifting-work-to-india-as-trump-hikes-h1-b-visa-fee-9369365

Jensen ("it's too high", poor Jensen): https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-nvidia-trump-100k-h1b-visa-price-high-immigration-2025-9

What if the NYT covers how Americans have been losing their jobs instead?: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/india-h1b-visa-trump.html

Same with this outlet: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-h1b-visa-fee-brain-drain-rcna234471

This is Bee Ees, Canadians and Germans have been complaining about them losing their jobs to foreigners, but poor foreigners, hey: "But now, for many, it’s simply not worth it. An Indian computer science graduate in Texas told Reuters: “I’ll move to Canada or Europe — anywhere that actually wants us.” And other countries do want them: China, Germany and other nations are rolling out new incentives to scoop up the same talent the U.S. is now pushing away."

The unemployment lines in Canada are getting longer and longer. In Germany, unemployment hits 14-year high. For example: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-09-30/german-unemployment-rises-more-than-expected-in-september

My entire point is that media outlets don't inform, they push narratives and we need to be skeptical and do our homework (everyone, regardless of pol it i cal leaning).

The Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act was introduced in the Senate on September 5, 2025, by Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). The bill seeks to tackle the offshoring of U.S. jobs by creating significant financial disincentives for companies that hire foreign workers for services ultimately benefiting U.S. consumers.

Even for people who don’t get cut offshoring adds to my workload so it essentially lowers mu salary. How? Because I now have to coach and fix the mistakes these new “equal partners” make every day. Add that to my regular job. H1B Visas are changing and hopefully offshoring will get hit too.

Wasn’t it great to see the person that represents Verizon to Congress to help offshore jobs, go to Ireland where those American jobs were moved to and celebrate it on LinkedIn? Leadership personified! Exhilarating and exciting indeed. Can’t wait to see what lives and communities they offshore next!

US-headquartered Truist Financial plans to set up a tech centre in Hyderabad, and has floated a tender for firms to set it up and initially manage it. Infosys, a Truist vendor, is likely to bid for the contract pegged at least $250 million. The centre aims to hire 3,000 employees over five years.

Worries about being replaced by offshore contractors or poorly implemented AI tools are often refered to in the main thread:

• "My guess is a suspicious number of offshore contractors will be onboarded soon..." (84.51 casualty, Post ID: @py+1k3eddae2)
• "Supposedly 84.51 laid off 183 people in March but they went the extra step and hired 152 offshore contractors from TechM from India and Mexico to replace them." (Anonymous, Post ID: @nz+1k3eddae2)
• "Seems like Kroger is going very heavy on internal AI tools and AI curated/generated experiences." (Anonymous, Post ID: @ns+1k3eddae2)
• "nah. The AI tooling is a total joke. Can't replace anyone... Plus Kroger won't pay for the good tiers so it's extremely slow and d-mb" (Anonymous, Post ID: @p1+1k3eddae2)
• "when I changed teams a few years ago it took five Indians and 4 years for them to even grasp a basic understanding of the applications." (Anonymous, Post ID: @p0+1k3eddae2)

I'll be honest, i'm not feeling great about this announcement. Ive seen it before at previous companies and when this happens, majority of the opportunities dry up and most new positions open overseas. Wondering if anyone has an idea of what's going to go down. Are they planning layoffs? What areas are they planning on offshoring?

Is that the end goal?

Former tech worker here. I left a few years ago. I am curious, how much have they increased the number of H-1B and offshore workers in the last 3 years?

That’s the only thing you can truly count on working here. So I’ve stopped getting invested. There’s no real career path, no long-term payoff, and definitely no sense of job security. I treat my role like a temp position now. I show up, get my required tasks done, and that’s it. No extra effort, no engagement beyond what’s necessary. When my number’s up I’ll be ready to walk away without regrets. It’s just how you have to approach this place if you want to stay sane.

Long story short, I've about had it to my wits end with my offshore manager who I got reassigned to late last year. I am only a small minority on my team that's based in the USA. I get little to no support from my manager, they blatantly ignore slacking coworkers or instances of offshore team members HEAVILY inflating their task estimates or coming up with bs excuses every day when asked about progress on their work. I don't think I've seen them ever meet a single deadline without pushing everything in the backlog onto the USA devs. Manager is too passive and seems content with letting the US workers get walked all over. Why the f*** are they being put into managerial positions over US workers????

Can you imagine if there were a tariff on 'human capital' for companies like AT&T which are stacking their payroll with overseas workers from India, et al.?

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-sees-asias-biggest-earnings-downgrades-us-tariffs-loom-2025-08-21/

How much more talent will Wells Fargo lose with their bullying tactics, offshoring US Domestic jobs, while they lack efficient risk management & controls at the same time? How can a CEO talk about being more efficient when his strategy has been proven to be unsustainable and fails (offshoring).

When will the BOD or Shareholders wakeup! You should be pi---d. The CEO is only positioning the company for “short term gains”, if any. Offshoring jobs for cheap labor is a way to make the balance sheet look good over the short term. Meanwhile the cracks have begun to appear. The CEO will leave this company worse than it ever was.

His offer letter provides him a golden parachute after 5 years in his role. Do you think it is a coincidence that the “assets cap not being removed until maybe 2025” was leaked? Clearly, This leak is to drive a narrative for the CEO who will leave next year per the terms of his offer letter, and the asset cap will remain over the company.

The guy has accomplished nothing but more fines and lying to shareholders and customers. Someone with that authority do something! He is creating more risk, the cracks are beginning to appear and affect our customers. The stock price has been the worst under this CEO.

WAKE UP PEAOPLE!! Hiring offshore does not make the company more efficient! It does the opposite, and creates risk! Offshoring also does nothing for the US economy. All those shops and restaurants that want employees to fully return to office don’t understand that it will not happen. Just look at all the building consolidations. That shows that the Strategy is not about collaboration, or better together, or any of that. IT IS ABOUT REDUCING COSTS BY FIRIBG US EMPLOYEES AND HIRING CHEAP, UNQUALIFIED LABOR TO DRIVE THE NARRATIVE THAT “THE FIRM” IS MORE EFFICIENT.

All the Shartman is really doing is making sure it looks like he cut costs, and reduced headcount while he approaches the end of his 5 year agreement stated in the CEO’s offer letter. He will then leave, and the conpany will continue to crumble from the severe harm and toxic workplace created by this chump. Someone standup! All the red flags are there. Wells Fargo is now the company to pay the highest amount of fines ever. BILLIONS OF MONIES that could have gone to investments, employees, and shareholders because of CURRENT LEADERSHIPS FAILURES.

Here is an inside look at how offshore is working out at “THE FIRM”.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/employees-in-asia-are-spending-the-most-time-looking-busy-at-work.html

WE NEEE A BOARD AND LEASDERSHIP THAT UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS AND EFFICIENCIES BY UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY WITH QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES. THAT IS HOW YOU TRULEY “DO MORE WITH LESS”.

MAYBE SOMEONE SHOULD FORCE THE CURRENT CEO, SENIOR LEADERSHIP, AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO DO “MORE WITH LESS”.

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Some support center employees are being told to find another job. As many as 50 percent to 90 percent of those departments are being told this. By the way, those jobs are still needed, but now those jobs are being sent to Bulgaria and Costa Rica. Shouldn’t that be illegal?