Pretty much so... This kind of situation is strange to experience 1st hand. At the time - I thought it was so Illogical - and could not believe that others could not completely see it that way. Although, I believe - there were those of us there with our hands tied. The powers that be - who ran the operation - they chose to have these offsite teams - and that's how they wanted to run the project. But, in certain instances - like the one I mentioned - it seems Utterly Illogical if not PLAIN STUPID to have an Offsite team doing QA - when most project were always Super Time Critical and in a Rush!
Long story short - that company basically doesn't exist anymore. The company had been independent. Then, before I got there - it was bought by McGrawHill. But, during the time I was there - it was starting to do so bad - that they had 1 or 2 rounds of layoffs before I left. My boss/manager - who hired me - and was a friend for like 20 years - he had 4 of us on his team - including himself. He was told to get rid of 1 person. He was pushing to layoff this one woman - but, I got my current job in the knick of time - which means I would quit and he didn't have to fire anyone. However, after I left - there were like 2 or 3 more rounds of layoffs. By about a year later - there were more layoffs - with the final round leaving only about 12 people in the company (when I was hired - there were around 100). Then, in the end - those last few - they stayed - but, the company was basically absorbed into McGraw-Hill, and the Grow company now no longer exists! And - I truly believe to this day - it was largely to the oversite of their attempt to outsource - but, the outsourcing did NOT Work - and was their downfall... -K- -----Original Message----- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:27 PM On 9/23/2011 3:48 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > You see - for a particular print project (and, in the end - MANY of them > were run this way) - we would have certain people inhouse - and then the > rest of the team was in India. But, the dumbest part was to have the QA > Team over in India. And, to make matters worse - almost every project > was a RUSH Job. So - this one time - we had a print-out/Proof - that > needed to be approved by QA - and IN A RUSH. So - imagine how silly it > is - to RUSH out some pieces of paper - attempt to get it there like > overnight - all the way to India - and then they have to write their > critiques on it - or even mark up the document - and send it back - IN A > RUSH! I even turned to someone at one point - and said "Why can't we > just have one of our people HERE that does QA (who might be on Another > project) - do the Rush QA job on this. But, I wasn't listened to - and > it was sent overseas!!! > > Oh well... Reminds me of the phrases "Penny-wise and Pound-foolish" and "Can't see the forest through the trees" and probably a few more similar ones. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a140b7ce...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
