Time Bomb

I just received news today that NYSE just planted another time bomb for the Horrorscope company that I work for. The bomb is set to go off in about three months time where my fellow web admin group's heads will roll. We lost another bid against two other vendor companies. The bids were submitted back in February and now the winning contract will go to an Indian company, who's employees are mostly offshore. They have been competing fiercely with us for the past few years.

I don't think we lost our bid due to our abilities, but more on cost alone. The company that I work for has been with NYSE for over 15+ years. Our company set up NYSE's email infrastructure, Intranet, Electronic Filing Platform among other high business enablement applications.

According to our last company dinner meeting in July, our company's income from NYSE went from 80%, to 67%, to 65%, and by the end of year to about 60%. NYSE is apparently trying to shed us off their vendor list. Now that NYSE is a public company, their focus is to generate profit and that means to reduce cost... sometimes not in the most logical or appropriate ways... like... no cups for water or simply no water. Screw the coffee machine... that was long gone. Office supplies? I bring my own. BTW... cafeteria discounts are for employees only... a discount of 20% I might add...

Oh well... what does that mean to me? Well... I am the last of the Domino Web developers... I guess they can always replace me with 10 Indians... since I do the work of 10 Indians. I even worked this past weekend to ensure that the new company, FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), that NYSE spinned off was a success. The cutover was a success.

What troubles me most is the fact that the top official at NYSE that oversaw the spinoff congratulated the project managers (4 people) and didn't even bother to congratulate the worker bees who ACTUALLY DID THE FUCK'N WORK. AND what pisses me off is the fact that I even sent HER, the she-bitch, an email update to the process of the cutoff for the applications that I was overseeing. I didn't even get a reply! I even set up a standard rollout format for the other developers to follow that made the whole process easier for the web admins.

There, my friend, is the food chain that I am part of... I'm too good for this.

BTW... our development efforts were actually doubled of what was alloted... due to the she-bitch didn't get her facts straight early enough. FINRA was originally called "SIRA" (Securities Industry Regulatory Authority), and apparently, "SIRA", "is the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad, from which most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived."

Us, being a white man's country can NEVER have such a name for a company that governs the world's precious New York Stock Exchange. In short, we all coded "SIRA" then had to change it to "FINRA" all over our apps. Some would say "use a global variable"... these are legacy apps that in some cases didn't take into account a company name change, less the IPO'ing of the exchange.

Anyway... the dilemma... leave now or leave later? Okay... I should at least work on my resume just in case NYSE had found the 10 Indians to replace me.

Curry anyone? About 80% of our floor are Indians waiting for their Green cards from their sponsor company. I sit with what's left of the white people, the other side of the floor is called "Little India" and our local kitchenette's microwave is called the "curriwave". Our two QA Labs are "Indian Clubs". Source of the Indians? The competing company who won the contract.

I don't hate Indians or their likes... I just can't earn a lower salary than I currently slave for.... I really can't...