June is looming. Are there indications this big June layoff is coming?
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I walked away from Sabre a couple of years ago after dealing with layoffs at least 4 times a year. The people that were chosen to be let go were the wrong people. VCP was a joke (this is how they get people to come work for them "there's a bonus plan" is what they said - what they don't say is "you have to be in the bubba club to get any type of substantial bonus").
I just had another yearly review and although they told us all that the increases are really small, I am shocked EVERY SINGLE YEAR. If we got 3% in Sabre, they considered that "good" - it s---ed! I started with this new company 3 years ago and my salary has increased at least 10% a year (and get this.... they give us a phone and internet allowance). I'm appreciated, my skills are being used, I'm having fun, I don't need to worry about layoffs and on Sunday night - I'm looking forward to what the week is going to bring.
Yes, I still watch this board because I find it amusing, everyone complains about layoffs, off shoring, dealing with incompetent management. NOTHING is going to change!
My point is.... get out - leave the company on your own terms, stop worrying about layoffs! And if you are let go, it will be a blessing! Get your resume out there and start interviewing, the job market is wide open.
@Zbmcrvg-gjmw, I would say next week is a good bet. Otherwise managers will have to start working on mid-years reviews for folks who won't be here.
Does anyone know WHEN it will happen?
i’ve been in these discussions and yes cuts are going to happen and its politically cutthroat about who it happens too. Ironically, it has nothing to do with grades determinations or age.
Sabre is run like an old communist Russian country.
Based on performance, right. I am betting most of those low performers will have some things in common
1) Older workers
2) Based in Southlake
3) positions will be eliminated and reappear in KRK or Bangalore, or perhaps MVD
There will probably be a smattering of layoffs in MVD, Bangalore (my guess is none or 1 or 2 in KRK, too many positions to fill there to send out negative news.)
Not that big this time. Graded under perform. Prob about 3% total. This week or next.
NGP is a failure and even users from Krk say that. Same as CP, S2C(the worst one ever). This product is in alpha state, still adding changes that are not backward compatibile and break working systems. But no surprise. Still the same group of people does it.
Better than ngp would be just use one cloud provider and then spread to different ones if needed. It is an abomination to use AWS in such limited way that Sabre does... It makes me sad..
What's the next generation platform after NGP going to be called? NGNGP? NGP2? NGP360? Deep Space 9 Platform?
How can you say KRK has good skills and then say they don't work well with others? That is one of the biggest problems the company has. NGP is going to be a failure like CP was because the people building it are not talking to the people who are going to be using it (unless they sit close to them in KRK.) Everything that is being built is for the technical insider. Think that's wrong? go/ngp and check out the marketing "campaign".
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labor laws in poland s--- and the dev teams dont work well with others. good skills though.
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dfw lacks tech commitment. (its always “try a cheap route in dfw” instead of good, smart technical planning). thus leading to half a-- solutions
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blr , not impressive in vision and commitment. skills are that of a high school developer. there are exceptions of course.
hey if we outsource our C-level to BLR and KRK we could save probably 100 million..
who cares about the 100k workerbee..
go for the big bucks ! com’on board !
Janitor in KRK = $12k
Jr Programmer in KRK = $25k
Sr Programmer in KRK = $40k
The US cannot compete at those prices.
For 25k you are not going to find a janitor and you are talking about position require at least 4 years college and at least some some brains. Such a bs
It's not just the medical costs but also the tertiary education costs that inflate the price of US labor to levels that cannot hope to compete with other countries. Including those that provide their citizens with medical and tertiary education at no cost to the recipient. Poland's public healthcare isn't the best in Europe but it's not the worst either, and is far better than the US public healthcare (healthcare by ER visit). Poland also has public tertiary education. Apartments are inexpensive. Busses and trains are available so cars aren't necessary. Without these unavoidable US costs a Polish employee can consider a $25k/yr salary as perfectly reasonable. US labor just cannot compete.
It's really the medical insurance that makes US labor uncompetitive. US staff would be willing to take a 50% pay cut if the risk of medical bankruptcy were eliminated.
Start wearing fun Polish flag t shirts on fridays.
No big layoff is coming right now. But still - current cost/quality rate is better in Poland than in the US and waaay better than in India, so the natural direction is quite easy to determine.
Especially when US is known for many 'success' stories, that the company needs to pay for right now due to technical tebt or promises made to the customer that were never fulfilled...
Offshorepocalypse is coming "Southlake is not the center of the world"
Put that on a T-Shirt @Zbmcrvg-2euc
And SB now with her f...g fun tshirt fridays.Stop the c-ap
This is the year of the people. We, the people, are everything and they want us to stay until we reach retirement. This is not the year when you have mass layoffs because that would be the ultimate contradiction!
What was the goal of the LS "Poland is awesome" buzzword email?
It really seems to have hit a nerve in DFW.
Maybe he should have sent it only to people in the KRK office.
People in locations at risk of layoffs don't enjoy being told about plans to replace them with cheap offshore workers.
How many people will quit because of that email?
How many will slack off and wait for the layoff severance?
It's not an American company anymore.
Please just lay me off aleady!
Can not hire anywhere but KRK and BLR. That's an indication.
New KRK building has 9 floors seating over 600 people. Southlake is doomed.
In the US but your boss is not? Indication.