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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And why? [/quote]

Mid 40's, wife fired.   Had family and health care and child with health issues.

2008 and people were getting fired periodically.  In purges of less than 50 so company could say it was related to performance and not layoffs.

One day came in and found out that 30 people in my area were fired.  2 people were kept from the group.  New managers hired from wall street had canned the entire group and outsourced the software BACK to the company that built the software.   The group was working on software that was implemented a couple of years before, customized for the firm beyond belief by business area, and un-maintainable.  New Managers worked with software company to maintain their own software.  Firm had paid over 20M on this software and then many millions to maintain, and then gave up and paid the software company more millions to take it back.

Meanwhile multiple people on business side got promoted into other groups, the new york mbas got bonuses, and the IT side got fired.  and the next day contractors from TCS showed up in the same cubicles.  20 something kids asking where are the printers.

I wish I learned this lesson in my 20's.  everyone is replaceable, the company will lie straight to your face, and the only way to get ahead is to play politics.  And large corporations today prefer to hire H1Bs over US citizens.  [/quote]

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