I have a friend who is being "leveraged out" in six months. In the meantime, she is training her replacements...a tech support staff from a firm in India that got the outsourcing contract.

What she has experienced to date was that the individuals appear to be sharp, hardworking, and reliable. Her only qualm is that they couldn't think "outside the box". So if a problem came up that didn't have a solution explicitly defined in their training, they had no means of addressing the problem.

Perhaps this is what Lebenz has experienced?

And $60/hr is a contract programmer salary (I remember those days). In-house starting salary IS programmers make about half that...

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