Outsourcing Vendor Starts to Cut IT Workers at Texas Utility (to India)

[UpInArms]

http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/energy/story/0,10801,96531,00.html

OCTOBER 11, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Capgemini Energy LP, which was formed in July to manage IT and back-office operations for energy conglomerate TXU Corp., this month plans to start dismissing about 230 former TXU workers, including 50 to 75 technology staffers.

The cuts follow the Oct. 1 expiration of a three-month job security guarantee for the TXU employees and include a mix of layoffs and offshore moves. For example, Capgemini Energy CEO Bob Pryor said last week that about 50 application development and maintenance positions are being shifted to a facility in Bangalore, India, that's owned by parent company Capgemini.

Pryor added that Dallas-based Capgemini Energy plans a second wave of downsizing at TXU in February. Although Pryor declined to say how many positions might be affected at that time, he said some IT infrastructure jobs will eventually be transferred to Bangalore and to a facility in Krakow, Poland.

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[cthrumatrix]

1. I'd like to hear a reaction from repug workers who just LOST their jobs

and still feel the need to endorse AWOL and others who think this is good

[flobee1kenobi]

2. A friend of mine

just recieved notice that the company she worked (in the IT dept)for was just bought out. Best case scenario, she will be forced to move out of a newly purchased house to Toronto or GB. Worst-she's out of a job. But she still will be voting for bush! .........I just don't get it

[Robert Oak]

4. many believe Kerry won't do anything

and is why they are going to vote for Bush.

I predict an tidal wave of layoffs and offshoring outsourcing after the election, no matter who wins.

We're looking at a diaster and to make matters worse, multinationals
have blocked efforts to accurate tabulate the true number of outsourced jobs and the current quotes has enormous evidence that they are grossly
underestimating the jobs lost.

[Dark Jedi]

3. Rovie says "The economy is stroooooooooong!"

They are idiots who put their religiosity and fear of terrorism before their economic interests! Most of the Repug base has the Kansas Voter Syndrome.

[Deja Q]

5. When the economy crumbles, will the CEOs who did all this just to

fatten their wallets realize that their wallets have little more than sawdust in them?