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Infosys billionaire founder Narayana Murthy wants young workers to have a 70-hour work week—and thinks it should be a matter of national pride (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My company paid over 10 million dollars for Infosys to implement oracle cloud.

It has been 3 years of complete abject torture, misery, and failure.

Infosys is an army of completely clueless, unqualified, and incompetent people on a revolving door.

It's like they make it a point to NEVER meet the requirements. They always find some convoluted round about lengthy manual process for everything they do.

I have gotten to the point where any time I am roped into an Infosys project, I will do nothing but ask to see the code, and therein is the problem, even their most "seasoned senior developer" can't produce the code because it doesn't exist.

They use janky point and click applications to "write code" for them, shove the code I to the oracle instance, break all of the existing code doing so, and repeat.

Infosys is a scam.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

My company is a few years into an Infosys partnership. From the first meeting, we had people disappointed. All this time later we're behind on every project, and spend more time arguing about payments and KPIs than actually getting work done.

It's easy to say your KPIs are green when you don't measure anything of value, and really easy to say we owe you for services when you have no proof of services rendered.

To learn they're pretty anti-human and profit driven from the top down is just icing on the cake

[–] ikidd 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infosys

Oracle Cloud

What did they think was going to happen?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm convinced Infosys kicked back 20% of the payment to the CIO.

He is a complete con artist who has been bleeding the company dry for 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He is a complete con artist who has been bleeding the company dry for 5 years.

Isn't that a given of every C-level job?

[–] Madrigal 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d say Infosys is probably doing them a favour.

[–] ikidd 4 points 1 year ago

Having attempted to set up a paid infrastructure on Oracle and not being able to because their backend systems are shit and the support people there are idiots, I'd have to agree. I couldn't get my tenant ID associated with a support contract, even after a continuous week of exploring every support option and talking to support rep after support rep on phone and chat. I just wound it up and moved on.

[–] Burn_The_Right 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Infosys is a fake tech company that doesn't actually provide real services. They provide promises of services, then they do not deliver any of the services at all.

This company is a notorious scam. India should not have "national pride" in a scam company. They should get rid of these companies and do honest work instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a problem in India though.

Scams exist everywhere, but India literally has billions of people running call centers dedicated to shamelessly scamming elderly English speakers out of their money.

I mean, how many times has Kitboga made the call and was greeted by a Swedish, or Spanish, or French accent.

No, it's always an Indian person who wants to get team viewer installed and bank accounts signed into.

Sidenote, I want to know why Target gift cards are the gold standard for money laundering.

Anyway, it sounds racist, but it's still a fact. India's far and away leading export is posing as people who are tech savvy so they can scam the elderly, be it the retired living on social security or Boomer CEOs who would be caught dead before properly paying and investing in their actual employees.

Infosys is just the next step in the path of "this is Microsoft support rebate department and I jUsT rEfUnDeD yOu ThE wRoNg AmOuNt."

Edit: I did something my fellow millennial do that I try not to. I put 'literally' next to a hyperbole statement.

I apologize for the grammar foul, but it doesn't sink my point.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is kind of racist though. Indian citizens don't choose to be scammers in a way that Europeans don't. Its a natural consequence of the countries establishment of business services combined with widespread systemic poverty. This traces back to international business deals, political and economic circumstances. It's not a cultural thing.

It doesn't mean that scam call centers are good. But Indians have definitely been exploited by international business. Only natural that they end up returning the favor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I called out how it sounded racist, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problematic scam culture that is centered in India.

Whatever the cause, I would like the problem to be resolved and not just filed away under "that's racist".

Edit: rereading this, I bet most of the same can be said for the US stock market. And the US credit system. Only difference is them asshats are scamming under the guise of business instead of the guise of tech. And I'm pretty sure they aren't hitting up Indian grandma's.

I'd be happy to see US stocks and Credit Ratings disappear tomorrow.

I'd be happy to see Indian tech scams disappear tomorrow.

They're all scams.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is andiffefence between saying that scam call centers are bad and that Indians have a culture of scamming. Thats all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did not say that Indians have a culture of scamming.

I said that there is a problematic culture of scamming centered in India.

THAT is a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, well as long as that is clear.

[–] BrightHalo 6 points 1 year ago

I worked for them for a year and it felt like they were wanting me to scam clients with what they wanted me to claim as skills I had and services I could provide

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It should be a matter of national pride to kick this dude in the dick every time you see him.

[–] agent_flounder 5 points 1 year ago

I consider it a matter of global pride. Ok, Lemme get my dick kickin shoes on...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Young workers in India need to unionise not work 70 hour weeks.

[–] oDDmON 21 points 1 year ago

Fine, let that fucking fossil lead the way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Battery farms for humans, basically.

[–] BeautifulMind 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Billionaire wants people to peer-pressure others into bending over more deeply into being exploited, film at eleven

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

billionaires love it when people are proud of working their asses off for peanuts.. they absolutely love that shit..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Remember, it's not slavery if the ~~workers~~ collaborators have the option of being unemployed instead of being worked to the bone for peanuts!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No.

[–] sagrotan 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess who's still here living the 27 hour week comfortably with their family while this bitchass old fuck is rotting in his grave, hm?

[–] JTheDoc 4 points 1 year ago

Passing all those skills down to his Son-in-law.

Rishi Sunak.