Outsourcing, Oh how I hate thee…

This morning we had a 9am call to discuss issues with the outsourcing efforts relating to my group/division.  India set up the call.  9am is a tough time here because many commute and the weather has been so bad that most people took the call from home so as to not miss it because it’s an important call.

At 9am we were all on the call…all except one…  Would you care to guess who was NOT on the call?  mmmHmmm, India.  Would you like to know where India was?  “On dinner break.”

After having someone there track this person down he said he wanted to reschedule to 10am.  We all shook our heads in defeat and I think you could actually hear it on the call.  Since everyone now had to get to work it was agreed that the call would take place at 10:30am, 4 minutes from now.

It was very hard for me not to say, on the call, “well, that sort of speaks for itself, doesn’t it?!” but I refrained and texted my boss.  “That’s sort of typical of our problem, isn’t it?”  She responded back, “Exactly representative of our problem.”

*sigh*