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????
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Transfer pricing manipulation is just one of the games. The silver lining? An offshore manager limits the daily chaos which is better than the H1B shuffle. Unfortunately Optum still can’t stand on its own two feet; it’s all a shell game propped up by ringleader hype.
@10s its all jobs and its been noticed for years....
Why does no one realize that they are sending all the clinical jobs to the Philippines?
Optum is sick, India is still the cancer eating the host. Optum will continue to self implode.
Thank you for Making India Great Again while they buy Russian oil and wreak havoc with wars with China and Pakistan. Sums up our relations with India.
@cp This is why nobody wants to work with you onshore. Its a perfect lever to create more offshore jobs, keep it up!
Hiring cheap Indians and budgeting $10 Github Copilot monthly for each seems to be the way to go.
I'm also struggling with my offshore manager that I've had to actively coach! It's rough. Wish we could all go for a drink and discuss. Hang in there, I have a feeling we will go the same way that IBM did where ultimately they had to bring back onshore resources due to infrastructure failing.
As an offshore manager of US, II and PH employees, it is noticeable. Our hands are tied and we can only use the review process starting in November to really make it count.
Quarterly check-ins should be being done and making those accountable. If not, then the process is failing badly.
I have several 1's and 2's lined up for November - all are offshore.
Company is headed one way and its not up.