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posted by martyb on Friday February 01 2019, @07:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the Save-money-by-outsourcing-101 dept.

The largest telecommunications company in Australia, Telstra, has outsourced 1500 jobs to India. It previously outsourced its directories division in 2006, while complaining about the lack of programmers available in Australia saying that only 1200 new software engineers have become available in the workforce in the last 12 months compared to 44,000 in India. This move is the latest in a series to offshore IT work to India.

How long until all of the IT in Telstra is moved to India?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday February 01 2019, @11:37AM (5 children)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday February 01 2019, @11:37AM (#794983)

    Couldn't possibly care less.

    Their apallingly poor service lost me as a customer a long time ago.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @03:19PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @03:19PM (#795043)

    what matters is that when they came and took the jews, i didn't do anything, because I wasnt jewish. that is the most direct and perhaps inappopriate example, but the context applies. doing nothing because you don't care may very well mean no one will care about you either.

    when they come to take your job, the people in india won't defend you. and few of your brethren in the workforce near you will do much to help; they probably will be trying to prove their own worth to bother with defending yours.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @06:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @06:17PM (#795110)

      That's a bad analogy because the jews are obviously behind outsourcing.

    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday February 01 2019, @09:35PM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday February 01 2019, @09:35PM (#795198)

      what matters is that when they came and took the jews, i didn't do anything, because I wasnt jewish. that is the most direct and perhaps inappopriate example, but the context applies. doing nothing because you don't care may very well mean no one will care about you either...

      Godwinning up, it's more appropriate for me to say "when they came and took the war criminals, I didn't do anything, because I wasnt a war criminal".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @03:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @03:36PM (#795049)

    You have alternatives?

    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday February 01 2019, @09:42PM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday February 01 2019, @09:42PM (#795200)

      You have alternatives [to telstra]?

      I gave iiNet a try on my son's recommendation. First (and so far only) time I had a problem (fixed after the call) the helldesk operator put the script down and actually knew what I was talking about when I said I had a Linux system.

      Might have been an exception, but I'm staying until they prove my confidence unfounded.

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