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> "In late November, this former employee received his annual performance review, which he provided to The New York Times. His supervisor, who was not aware the
by Shank 11y ago
> "In late November, this former employee received his annual performance review, which he provided to The New York Times. His supervisor, who was not aware the man was scheduled for layoff, wrote that because of his superior skills and “outstanding” work, he had saved the company thousands of dollars. The supervisor added that he was looking forward to another highly productive year of having the employee on the team. The employee got a raise. His severance pay had to be recalculated to include it."
That's absolutely horrible. Not only is it a case of left hand not talking to right hand, it almost seems cruel to review someone in the position of being laid off so highly that it warrants a raise. Nobody stopped to consider "maybe we should keep this employee around?" It's disheartening.
- baldfat 11y agoIt's called out sourcing, So it is 100% not dependent of the employee performance it is based on the ability to out source to save money 100% of the time. This is why Labor Unions are good :) BUT most people these days look at them negatively sadly.
- ulfw 11y agoOutsourcing rarely saves money. And while we can argue in how many percent of cases outsourcing ends up being cheaper than retaining your current experienced engineers, I am certain that number would never equal 100%.
- baldfat 11y agoI am certainly NOT a fan of out sourcing. My School District did that with Substitute Teachers due to low pool. Guess what it failed at its reasoning 100%.
- jodah 11y agoI'm not sure that outsourcing is the appropriate term, at least not in the usual sense, when your replacement is brought in to sit in your exact chair.
- baldfat 11y agoIf they out source the IT Department (My work did that 15 years ago) the Department location does not change physical locations nor do the desk.
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- jobu 11y agoIt was probably horrible at the time, but I'm sure that person will be able to look back on it and laugh at the pure incompetence of Disney's management. As someone else commented, outsourcing is often the last-ditch effort by terrible IT managers, and that incident seems to confirm it.
- slayed0 11y agoThese aren't 20-something coders living in the valley with an endless list of job opportunities and 30+ remaining working years. These are employees who are very close to retirement who live in an area where Disney is the giant in terms of tech job offerings. They have families and financial obligations that are dependent on the salary they were receiving. As the article stated, many were forced to retire early and many others have not been able to find work. They likely don't enough time left in their careers to be able to 'look back on it and laugh'.
- imglorp 11y agoIf they are really on the ball, they would ask middle management to rank their grunts. More commonly though, a director or vp will make the choices in bulk based on other factors like salary. Of course this means high performers, who were given raises commensurately, are first to go in that model.