[ale] Suntrust replaces 100 veteran techs with outsourced staff

[Damon L. Chesser]

in other news:  due to bad PR and the *possible* interpretation of the 
severance clause saying former ST employees are to be available for two 
years, with out further compensation, ST has formally revoked that 
clause.  Just FYI.  Like I said, ST is actually pretty good to it's 
employees and it's customers.

On 10/22/2015 05:18 PM, 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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>
> Thursday, 22 October 2015, 05:02PM -04:00 from Pete Hardie 
> <pete.hardie at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <//e-aj.my.com/compose/?mailto=mailto%3ajim.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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>         own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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