I had my pay review letter on Wednesday, and the upshot of it is that they’ve given me such a bad package that it makes my position here untenable.
So I’m also going to have to spend the Christmas period looking for employment elsewhere.
Woo Hoo, its definately the season to be jolly.
Seems theres a need for 120+ redundancy volunteers here too, exactly where and who will be decided next week.
I used to think the post early for christmas was due to the sending of christmas cards not flippin P45’s :sad3:
and yet apparently the economy is booming 
When do you think a recession will officially be announced ???
DT.
No recession. Things are cooking. It is just the IT business churns alot. Unless you land a gig with a big company and continue to show your value you can expect a pretty much constant chance of down sizing or out sourcing. Even then there are no guarantees. In this kind of environment all you can do is plan for the transitions or become your own boss.
I am convinced the next wave over here is going to be data center automation to a lights out operation. It is on the horizon, bare metal to productive platform at a touch of the button. I watch my current gig and I see the amount of un-necessary personnel needed with todays install and maintainence model and understand how easy it would be to get to the push button data center. The gal that sits next to me build Solaris boxes and Linux boxes all day long and I am afraid that with the commodity hardware that is out there her job is a just a step away from being automated. She is clueless to this fact. Lots of people are going to be hitting the streets if somebody can get that right. IBM is on the way with their On Demand tecnology. There are a few other working on it right now as well.
Really the next big wave is going to be the datacenter as a computing resource. The reality of what is under the covers won’t make any difference. It will be adaptive and self healing, Just racks of iron with provisioning, fault & performance monitoring. Add software with some minimal intelligence to make the decisions. The only jobs left will be design and content, rack and stack, string and fling. All which pay less than real engineering. If you look at the cost to build/administer systems today that is where the next big productivity jump will come from. Even if they pay million$ for the software, the people still cost more. 10 admins @ 100K a year total costs with benefits = $1,000,000. 
And it is probably higher cost than that in reality with floor space, network connection, etc.
It use to be people cared about resource utilization, but with the amount of computing power available in a cheap server platform, getting rid of people is the most cost effective thing these big data operations can do. The people I work for now have about 3-4 sq.ft of office for every 1 sq. ft of data center. I expect that to change dramaticly in the next couple of years. I think the ratio will be just the opposite, This is going to have impacts on all departments, HR and payroll come to mind.
So what should people do? Start planning now because it is just around the corner. Personally I think that I will become part of the move to put all the others out of work. 
holy thread revival - I think I was just seeing things a little early, it’s certainly here now!
DT.
Was this a feature of the move ?
Random threads surfacing like extras in Thriller…
Spooky that the axe-man cometh once more where I’m working.
Not 120 this time just batches of 5 or 6 dissapearing here there and everywhere
I’m going through the old posts deleting a load of stuff, a trip down memory lane a little bit. Some are far too close to seeing into the future from a few years back :eek:
DT.
[QUOTE=DoubleTop;441501] Some are far too close to seeing into the future from a few years back :eek:
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Well a few years ago I certainly didn’t predict Luton being in the BSP :whiteflag: