[ale] Suntrust replaces 100 veteran techs with outsourced staff

[Jim Kinney]

Sorry for your loss. Good luck on a new job. Thanks for the clarification. I've been called up on a past job or two. There's no way to do a total brain dump in two weeks on the way out.


On October 22, 2015 5:18:55 PM EDT, damon at damtek.com wrote:
>
>Being employed by SunTust and being one of those effected: it is not
>devs. It is all app support and integration Engineers.  Further, you
>are not required to work for free for two years.  You *could* read it
>that way, but, hey, its a bank. They may need to ask you about $foo.
>Answer them and move on.  It's for legal and regulatory issues you may
>be involved with. It still sucks, but it is not as sukworthy as that
>article implies.  Further Suntrust has been completely transparent in
>the entire matter going back 18 months.  None of this is a surprise, in
>fact, most of the people can be cut lose and nobody would notice. Not
>quite the same as cutting an entire team, but there was a lot of dead
>weight and walking dead. Still is. Sadly, I am effected and I can
>honestly say very few (one other) person has had the impact on the org
>that I have had, but number crunchers don't see that.
>Move on and get a pay raise. It's been fun.  SunTrust, as a bank
>actually CARES about the customer and the employee. At the end of the
>day, its a job.
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>-04:00 from Pete Hardie < pete.hardie at gmail.com> :
>
>>I need to save that article for all the good ideas it has.....
>>
>>On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney  < jim.kinney at gmail.com >
>wrote:
>>>I'm sure by now, most people have heard that Suntrust (time to find a
>new bank) is laying off 100 developers, having them train their
>overseas replacements and requiring that they be available, FOR FREE,
>over the next 2 years if required.
>>>
>>>The Register has a good writeup:
>>>
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22/the_zombie_programmer_awakens/
>>>-- 
>James P. Kinney III
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