Quest IT Outsourcing

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  1. Anonymous

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    Wipro and Nortel together forever. If you read the article you may find a familiar name.


    http://www.andhranews.net/india/2006/September/8-Wipro-Nortel-Celebrate.asp
     

  2. Anonymous

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    Now, with Application Development and Infrastructure outsourced, what's next? Any other IT group will be under consideration? Lab support, Insurer, Healthcare solution(Care 360)?
     
  3. Anonymous

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    Only a portion of Application Development was outsourced. It was clearly and specifically said on a recent IT call that another pass was going to be made on the pockets which were skipped over. This is in reference to some app teams which were obviously not involved in the first TCS contract. It was not said how many or which ones but only that all of the remaining app teams were going to be seriously looked at again.
    I am sure all the recently promoted IT directors are sitting pretty, thinking they are safe and thanking the Dear Leader for their recent promotion and being pulled out of the firing line. In reality what do they really think is going to happen as their direct reports are taken away? JH loves to cherry pick stats from other companies to justify his rape and pillage of the company. How many other companies have directors with no direct reports? So really now, once the dust settles how long do these "directors" really think they will stay?
    Lab support - certainly wouldn't be a shock to see Unisys picking up more Quest business but who knows.
    Back in April on the IT Town Hall meeting it was publicly stated that Quest is not in the IT business and wants to get rid of all IT employees. Pretty sure it was JH that said (on that call) if you want to work in IT - go work for another company. The guy (JH) is obviously an Ass but you can't say he didn't straight out state his intentions.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    Wipro already has some market in the healthcare technology field. Quest wants out of the IT business to focus on core labs business. I foresee Wipro buying off Care360....
     
  5. Anonymous

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    And I foresee an Indian reference lab company buying Quest for pennies on the dollar- about 3 cents/dollar; because they can run the business better than these Aholes. Final stock price when Quest will be sold is at $1.81
     
  6. Anonymous

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    And the winner is....Quiggles!!!
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    even more hilarious is @Forbes.com:
    8/22/2013 @ 2:40PM |73,367 views
    The 10 Companies With The Biggest Jumps In Employee Happiness

    ...Philips Healthcare employees rated the place they work 15.6% higher than the year prior, ....
     
  8. Anonymous

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    That is a good one. Here is one for the peeps who might be signing up with TCS:

    http://www.lieffcabraser.com/employment-law/case/149/tata-consultancy-services

    The complaint alleges that Tata has required its non-U.S.-citizen employees to sign power of attorney agreements delegating an outside agency to calculate and submit each employee’s tax return to state and federal authorities. Tata then required its non-U.S.-citizen employees who received tax refunds from state and federal tax authorities to endorse the tax refund checks and demanded that they send those checks back to Tata.

    On February 21, 2013, plaintiffs' counsel moved for preliminary approval of a $29.75 million settlement with Defendants. On April 5, 2013, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval to the settlement.
     
  9. Anonymous

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    Both GE and GM who were big proponents of outsourcing are now swinging in the other direction and investing heavily towards insourcing. Last year GM announced they were pulling back 10,000 IT jobs (which would be about 90% of their IT) to be done in-house.

    The new CEO at Quest Diagnostics is about a decade behind the times in his move to try and increase profits by outsourcing as much of IT as possible to foreign companies. If the company survives this debacle (which is doubtful) then another CEO who is more current with the realities of TODAY'S world will be required to clean up the mess.
    By that time, CEO Rusckowski and his close group of cronies will already have lined their pockets with ill-gotten millions from the company and be on their merry way.
     
  10. Anonymous

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    Are you sure there will be a company to clean up?
     
  11. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Good question.

    Given that the contract for Quest Diagnostics CEO Steve Rusckowski goes until December 31, 2015, it is not likely there will be a company left to clean up. If the board of directors comes to its collective sense and decides to kick his a$$ out the door, his contract calls for a severance of $7,500,000 (ie - 7.5 million). (Basically about 5 briefcases stuffed full of stacked $100 bills.)

    However if the CEO can manage to get the company sold before he gets kicked out the door then his severance would shoot up to $13,000,000. (Probably gonna need about three duffle bags for that much.)

    Makes one wonder if this obvious incentive to get the company sold has anything to do with getting rid of all the IT talent and outsourcing to foreign firms. These foreign firms will undoubtedly be staffing the majority of those outsourced positions with short-term and high-turnover consultants who have less then two years IT experience. Not exactly the sort of thing the stockholders would be expecting for true long-term value.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    Come on people - we have been on a downward spiral for years. It started when Jean-Marc was made CIO and picked up steam when MHG was CIO and that pathetic loser David Evans followed. The stable of incompetents now however takes the cake. JH is just pathetic - what a waste of a human being he is. What's amazing is that he actually thinks he is a leader - he is a joke, dis-honest and incompetent. He destroys companies wherever he lands and will continue to do so. How this guy finds employment anywhere is amazing but the fact that we hired him tells you the kind of disgusting people Quest Diagnostics attracts.
     
  13. Anonymous

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    Another joke is how companies like Quest get away with replacing American workers with foreigners on H1-B visas by outsourcing to Indian IT bodyshops like TCS and Wipro.

    The H1-B visa was originally intended to allow US companies to fill jobs that required "highly theoretical or technical knowledge" when they could not find people in the US to fill those jobs. The joke that everybody seems to ignore, especially our political leaders, is that the people already doing these jobs are Americans, which under normal logic would mean that you shouldn't need to bring in foreigners to fill the jobs.

    Let's look at some of the jobs they are trying to fill with H1-B visa holders at Quest. Here is the list of jobs and number of H1-B slots that Wipro is applying for, taken from the Notice of Filing Labor Condition Application forms posted in Lyndhurst:

    Project Manger: 90
    Engineer: 16
    System Administrator: 150
    Programmer Analyst: 25
    Lead Engineer: 25
    Architect Level 2: 25
    System Administrator Level 3: 100
    Database Administrator: 25
    Consultant: 60
    Database Administrator Level 1: 12
    Architect Level 3: 25

    Very few of these jobs are so "technical" or "theoretical" that you couldn't find Americans to do them, especially project management, aside from the obvious fact that Americans are already doing them. It's unbelievable how companies like Quest and Wipro get away with this. It should be a crime.
     
  14. Anonymous

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    Good post. But I don't understand the numbers you post. They total to 553 positions. Yet there the number of Quest IT positions outsourced with this recent Wipro contract is 245. So the difference in the two numbers I find confusing. Also no project managers were outsourced nor any architects.
     
  15. Anonymous

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    Although current Wipro contract does not cover all these positions, it is a fact that all of IT was specifically told that outsourcing is not done and more positions will be looked at. As an example, under Michelle Hoffmann there are 85 positions that are PROJECT mgrs, PROGRAM mgrs or ACCOUNT mgrs. (Just count the numbers as you see them listed in the Org Chart.) That number is similar to the 90 positions listed above for project management.

    Is it possible that Quest and Wipro already have more positions already under contract and we just have not been told about it yet?
     
  16. Anonymous

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    Almost certainly they will be outsourced. But the two relevant questions are:
    1) When
    and
    2) Will Quest (JH) have changed the severance package to match AmeriPath at 1 week severance pay per year of service before that time?
     
  17. Anonymous

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    I just logged into the employee self-service portal to retrieve my paycheck stub when this message popped up:

    National Payroll Week — September 2-6, 2013

    National Payroll Week is an annual celebration of the productivity and hard work of America's 156 million wage earners and the payroll professionals who pay them. Together, through payroll withholding, they contribute, collect, report and deposit approximately $1.78 trillion, or 70.5%, of the annual revenue of the U.S. Treasury.

    Yeah, the productivity and hard work of America's 156 million wage earners. All except, you know, those several hundred that SR, JH and TW are dumping and replacing with foreign scab labor.

    It's almost like they are going out of their way to grind salt into the wounds.
     
  18. Anonymous

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    Is it possible that Quest and Wipro already have more positions already under contract and we just have not been told about it yet?[/QUOTE]

    You're kidding right?