To all my fellow sister cores:
We were and are still being screwed over by Xerox, treated with absolutely no appreciation for our hard work and dedication over the years to make GIS a great company, many of us thought we would complete our careers here.
We were blindsided with the whole rebadging, our raises taken, our 401k match nullified, then this past week with our awesome "we will not roll over and take this lightly" attitude, we not only witnessed the incompetence of HCL and Xerox but we prevailed in letting them know that if they thought we would be some dumb naive employees then they never understood who we were and are to begin with.
We are now aware of the whole plan, the timeline and our eventual layoff, but what they don't realize is that they may have the say in when our jobs will end but they DON'T have a say in what the customer wants and if you don't have the customers, you don't have a business!
You may think you can automate processes but don't you realize that customers don't want to be automated, that they don't want cookie cutter agreements, they want special customized agreements, service and local hands on help, that is what set us apart from our competition, that is why GIS was such a success!
So be proud GIS, we will prevail and other companies out there will be eager for our talent and dedication!
Best of luck to everyone, I am proud to call you coworkers!