Sungard India is on a hiring spree - no qualifications necessary! Unfortunately in order to make room for 300 new employees in India long term employees in the US will need to be let go. Customer feedback is no longer a concern as long as they hit their numbers of India to US employees
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Looks like Dr. Evil was right we're all f***ed
Have a beer and relax Dr. Evil its Friday
Where are you hearing that’s it’s chapter 11?
Chapter 11 on Monday folks. Hope you’ve been looking around for employment
Well 15 is a lot when you take 15 away from 40
Autocorrect - weird
Shevardnadze? As in the former Minister of State Affairs for the USSR?
Definite more to come - this week was only the tip of the iceberg. They are full
Steam ahead on offshoring all of recovery operations
According to this board April should be an apocalyptic month for SgAS. Either the sale of the UK business, bankruptcy, the elimination of DR in the US, all the above, or none of the above. I don't think anyone outside of the LT circle knows for sure. Enjoy your weekend with friends and families, keep looking for new opportunities outside of AS and whatever April brings will start on Monday.
Only 15 on Wednesday. Is that the end of the world every one is talking about or is there more to come in April?
Layoffs American's so he can employee India and the wimps in mgmt are fine with it, only worried about there own jobs! EEO this is not RIF if they hire someone to take your Job, wake up get a lawyer!!!! I have...
Recovery operations
Which Ops groups? FKR
Operations - more to follow for sure. Kaushik’s only concern is getting rid of us staff and replacing with cheap labor in India
Any further details ? Numbers, Departments ?
DR In Philadelphia layoffs happened today!
26th? Who got wacked today?
26th and more to come
"No better way to lose the rest of your customers than by throwing staff with 3 months of limited training in front of them to support their tests" >>> How is that different than what's been going on the last two years??
No better way to lose the rest of your customers than by throwing staff with 3 months of limited training in front of them to support their tests
They are nowhere near ready - not even close.
Not sure the over seas workers are ready, so I think layoffs may not happen until April
If you think there aren’t layoffs happening in April you clearly aren’t paying attention
Soon my friend. 100% going to happen! 100%
It's nearly the 28th. What's up with this BS rumor?
The end is nigh
"Almost time to turn out the lights" Was that just a general statement or is that against specific knowledge?
Almost time to turn out the lights
But giggles keeps giggling at night
Leadership and the board have lost complete control of the company and don’t know what to do at this point.