No wonder I've been getting hit up by banks for contracting jobs. All their outsourced staff is probably struggling big time due to shytty home Internet connections. Dumbasses!
COVID-19 Impacting Technologist Outsourcing for Banks, Finance Firms
Most technologists in banks are now working from home all the time, rather than alternating between one week in the office and one week outside. Sixty-eight percent say they’re enjoying the experience, but 40 percent say it’s hard or challenging.
One of the challenges seems to be working with colleagues in offshored locations such as India. As a result of the virus, the entire world is working from home… not just people in the U.S. and Europe. And in areas of India, it seems that internet speeds can be too slow to work efficiently.
“Some of our people in India have had big problems with their work from home set-ups,” said a technologist at a major U.S. bank in London. “
They’re running at around 5MB at home, which is barely enough for video calls.”
As a result, work is being done more slowly. Instead of using video functionality to discuss tasks, technologists are resorting to instant messaging, this technologist added: “Productivity is down.”
The issues come after banks have offshored thousands of technology jobs to India in recent years. Goldman Sachs alone has a huge campus in
Bangalore, with room for up to 9,000 people working across everything from technology to support and ‘
strats’ roles. JPMorgan has its own ‘
bustling technology center’ in Bengalaru.
Offshoring to India worked when local employees were situated in well-equipped offices, but now that Indian technologists are working remotely, some are said to have trouble even getting a broadband connection. One technologist said the new way of working seems particularly challenging for female coders in Bengalaru: “Childcare responsibilities seem to be a particular burden for our female developers in India, as there appears to be a patriarchal attitude that they should be looking after the children. A lot of them are having to work evenings.”
? I'm over here drowning trying to keep up.
Gahdamn
. I have specific needs and what should be consolidated onto a handful of nodes is spread across the entire cluster making it literally impossible to deploy my application properly. Up until this morning I had been deploying with the wrong setup because I was given incorrect information from the get go. Now that I have things seemingly correct, i find it out that my deployments have only been looking right because things were so wrong. Can't get shyt to function properly now 
. I'm going to have to drop some bombs on Monday and see if these people can get their shyt together.
said no to that shyt
