Outsourced Engineer LA Times

[Robert Oak]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
programmer30may30,1,2543631.story?coll=la-home-headlines

May 30, 2004 E-mail story Print


THE NATION
Outsourcing Ax Falls Hard on Tech Workers
As the slump persists, some train their low-cost replacements
before being shown the door.

By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The global economy finally caught up with
Cliff Cotterill.

On Friday, the software engineer drove his pickup truck to Building
54 at Agilent Technologies Inc. in Santa Clara. He made his way
through the warren of partitions to his cubicle. Then he turned in
his laptop computer and employee badge and said goodbye to 25 years
of his life.

There were no parting ceremonies, no official farewells. His
department had held a big lunch in August, when he and others were
scheduled for termination. Cotterill was given a brief extension.

But this weekend, when he was only 11 weeks away from being eligible
for early retirement, the ax finally fell. Cotterill, 54, joined the
growing ranks of computer professionals who so recently occupied a
prized position in the U.S. economy but are now seeing their jobs
disappear — many outsourced to foreigners.

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Hope he sues, 11 weeks before qualifying for retirement sounds fishy.

[physioex]

1. Your link does not work...please fix it EOM

[wildmanj]

2. disappearing jobs

people don't always get what they want but almost always get what they deserve---americans to be hamburger flippers--a sad, cold, hard fact of life is that whatever group will work the cheapest will now be doing what once made this country so great---but this is what happens when we don't spend any time protecting that jobs that are the cushion beneath us---now when they talk about a job that disappeared guess what---GOD HOW MERCY THAT WAS MY GOD---how did it happen--well you sat on your ass as other people lost theirs and guess what---they sit on their ass as your goes bye bye---sad but true