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$12,500 per business trip to BLR TV
$15,000 per business trip to Brazil GBC
$18,000 per business trip to Europe GBC
$20,000 per business trip to KL TC
$30,000 per business trip to Guyana
and other

$ 475 per hour bill rate - the highest in the corporation and lowest return on the dollar

Sitting in cafeterias for coffee chats 50%. of time.
Lunch 10% of time.
Campus walks and gym 10% of time.
Dentist appointments and others 5% of time
Pointless meetings, ERG events, U ited way etc 10% of time
Whining and complaining about Indians taking over their jobs 5% of time
Politics and making things up for PDS 10% of time

When does Houston do work? What is the return on $475/hr bill rate for extracting other country’s resources while sitting in a glass castle?

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It is all fun. DW spends a whole lot of travel money on unnecessary travel and other fringes! Let the employee enjoy the taste of waste as well a bit.

@cc Train them to do what? Zoom and cut/paste overlay specs?

I don’t like them sending jobs overseas any more than you do, but don’t fool yourself about being some high-value professional with elite-level technical skills. You push documentation around and talk into a laptop.

@OP This doesn’t come close to executive compensation, and those people do even less.

The company could probably save more than $1B/year just by automating executive functions. Of course, they won’t do that, because automation is really about de-skilling workers and waging class warfare more broadly.

did you know that india taxes companies with permanent establishments on its soil at a rate of 40%? that a best case scenario with the best grants and subsidies is 25%?

in the US it’s a 10-20% rate

maybe you should factor this into your billable hour napkin math and pray your government doesn’t get any greedier.

European rate is half that, and look where their staffing levels are going...

@OP

Go and do real work than this bu--sh-T.
BTC is not doing anything valuable, no real work, no skills no ownership.

These people are traveling there to train you - be grateful. The business trip cost is just the reality of inflation in the world in this si--y economy ... the hourly cost is just internal bul-sh-it. nobody cares about it.

@OP+1kawms29k

The executives and our consultants know what is occurring at the Houston campus. PIP's/NSI's/NI's will continue until there "meaningful work" aligns with "headcount".

The overhead at Houston was apparent when the campus opened in 2013. Unfortunately, it has taken 12 years to solve the problem(s) regarding the redundances. We spend more time on PowerPoint with the "correct colors" and "correct fonts" than we do on the actual data in the PowerPoint deck.

@bj

it is the opposite way around! the IT resources needed for the people turning valves to make stuff happen will pick up the extra work of monitoring AI agents doing jobs that first were in another US office and are currently in an Indian office

truly being needed on an asset is the last bastion

@a7 will the jobs at the chemical plants be replaced with AI? If so, when?

What the heck are all these made up metrics and why did you waste your time coming up with them?

when H1-B, CPT, OPT, and O-1 all but go away we will see who is laughing. the rupee is already dropping on the news of the 100K fee and trade negotiations have stalled for months.

when ai automates most tasks, and it now makes the most economic sense to collocate the limited remaining work with the assets natural teams on site, will you be just as excited about your regions job loss?

how about when pakistan, vietnam, and bangladesh become the cheap labor alternative to you? will you support what’s right for the companies bottom line then?

tick tock. 5-10 years at most. better save up.

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