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"Back to fight the evil.."

Yeah. Got back into the UK yesterday after an 11 hour flight. Now I just need to get used to the cold!

Still, nice to finally be home...

pb wrote:
> Oh, and I worked next door to a very large Intel building. Too much
> security, otherwise I'd be tempted to see what they were up to...

Implementing chips at a guess :D

At first I was sceptical, but the company seems to have had the right idea. They've migrated the right departments, those that don't have as much contact with clients.

However, the helpdesk seem to be going out there soon, so that should be interesting...

...that said, pretty much all other financial companies are sending their jobs to India anyway. I saw Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Thompson and many other business out there, so soon it will be them talking to each other.

Oh, and I worked next door to a very large Intel building. Too much security, otherwise I'd be tempted to see what they were up to...

Heh. They just outsourced a load of jobs at our place to India. Fortunately mine wasn't amongst them. They brought the Indians over here to learn how to do the job, so at least you got it better than our lot.

Our accounts payable department was one of the first functions to go. Now I love it. Typical phonecall will go something like...

"Hi I'm Bob calling from Company-X, we have an outstanding invoice that I'm chasing up."
Me:"No problem, I'll just put you through to our accounts payable department, who you won't be able to understand and who won't understand you, so your chances of being paid are between slim and none. Oh and slim just died. Putting you through".

Nice, im going there over xmas minus the bens you got obviously!

Hope it all works out for you.

I'm right here!

Oh, I see what you mean...

...India. 5 weeks of training Indians to do my job, which I will lose in December. It has been pointed out to me that a flaw exists in this idea somewhere, however:

1) I got a free business class flight
2) I got living allowance which meant I could buy lots of cheap cds.
3) I got to see the Taj Mahal on a weekend off.
4) I got to see a country I might not have gone to otherwise
5) I may just be able to get a better job at the end of the year anyway.

So everybody's happy. Still wouldn't recommend the 12 hour working days though...

Where did u go?

Except the fight to fight?

There's no fight you can't fight...

Welcome back pb! I've been reading about your trip. Hope you had a great time and I hope you can continue to grace us with your presence. :)

You left?

From the title of this topic, I thought the war against the Crazy Frog was taking off.

Can we anyway?