SuperValu to lay off 80 employees in Boise's finance department (India)

[OhioChick]

Source: IdahoStatesman.com

Date: 06/10/08

Albertsons’ parent company, Minneapolis-based SuperValu, said Tuesday that 80 employees with its finance department in Boise will be laid off over the next 12 to 18 months.

Haley Meyer, a spokeswoman for the supermarket chain, said another 30 finance employees will be cut at the company’s Minneapolis headquarters.

Meyer said SuperValu has contracted with Cognizant, a provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services, to shift its accounts payable, vendor accounts receivable, and enterprise asset management operations to India.

The effected employees in Boise and Minneapolis were informed Tuesday morning that their jobs were going overseas.

Meyer said the layoffs will include jobs lost through attrition.



Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/406534.html

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Snip~ "It won’t be the first time SuperValu has sent local jobs overseas.

The company announced last November that it was shipping about 180 information technology jobs -- including some in Boise -- to India."

[rox63]

1. Outsourcing - It's not just for IT jobs and call centers anymore

Outsourcing is reason #1 why I'm going back to school to train for a new career outside of IT.

[madrchsod]

2. my son learned that lesson several years ago

while spending thousands at devry...he`s been working in the printing industry ever since. although a lot of printing has gone to china,mostly books,there will always be a need for people who can run a computerized printing press.

[InkAddict]

3. That's a smart move if you are young enough to achieve

the benefit of that choice.

With the steep costs of higher education plus survival costs, that's no longer an option for many even if one isn't outside the chronologically break-even point. Occupations that presumably cannot be outsourced also tend to be more physically demanding, something a senior who already has chronic health problems won't have the stamina to maintain for long. Getting above the ceiling of the actual "physical" experience of firefighting, say, to the more "desk" career of, say, "fire inspector" will be difficult to overcome not to mention the possibility that once back in the area of the job that requires mind instead of body risks the specter of probable outsourcability once again.

The next POTUS and Congress MUST put some clamps on the globalists spouting the short-term bottom line.

I'll tell you, I feel absolutely no obligation to figure out how to make any other country the next "market" by increasing THEIR expectations. But for Americans to continue to degrade the quality of life for fellow Americans, many of whom worked long, hard years to create the iconic American corporation is unconscionable.

Outsourcing is not about spreading literacy or democracy, it's about feeding the CEOs insatiable greed for short-term profits in a time of dwindling resources necessary for the quality of life we've achieved (along with the polution that's created).

Isn't it quite obvious that America can produce the same kinds of megalomaniacal, self-interested leaders and wussie appeasers that would shut down civil human rights and annihilate anybody that stands in the way of their profits or their cover-ups of criminal behaviors than any other non-democratic country can produce?

[rox63]

4. I'm middle-aged, forty-something

And I'll be stealing some money from my retirement fund to finance it. But it's just a 2-year program, and I'll work part-time during it. I've got at least 20+ years left to work, so I figured I'd be better off getting into something that can't be outsourced.

[1776Forever]

5. Ah yes - While India's salaries go up 20% we poor assed MBA holders in the US lose our homes!

I don't know how many of you all know about the close ties the Clinton's have to one Vin Gupta - founder of the Vinod Gupta School of Management, but he is very involved in the outsourcing our our countries best jobs. Read the following on his school in India and then read my other post I just started on one Mr. Gupta and Mr. Bill Clinton please!

http://news.education4india.com/3969/diversified-roles-on-offer-during-summer-placements-at-vgsom-iit-kharagpur/

The Vinod Gupta School of Management, NT Kharagpur recently concluded its placements for its 2005-07 batch. The batch of 118 students was placed within a day with 34 companies. The average salary increased by 20%, now touching 8.78 lakhs per annum. As many as 60 companies had confirmed their participation in the final placement process, these included Ashok Leyland, Citibank, HCL Technologies, HSBC Analytics, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Patni Computer Systems, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Accenture, Ernst and Young etc.

And now please read this post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3427956&mesg_id=3427956

.................................

I hold an MBA in Business and have tried for 1 and 1/2 years in Florida to get a job and have not found any. I have excellent references, experience and work ethic and it has gotten me nothing but heartache and the lose of my home. Am I bitter? You could say that!

:hurts:

[ihavenobias]

6. K & R

[ChromeFoundry]

7. It is like a large bucket with a hole in the bottom

every day, more and more jobs are gone... wake up America!

[MadMaddie]

8. Unbelievable.....well I sincerely believe that these companies

put their own survival at risk by outsource departments like this. It will take one corrupt worker to destroy a company.

When are American citizens going to say enough is enough?

[AngryOldDem]

9. OhioChick...SuperValu is also closing a distribution center in Xenia, Ohio....

A major employer in that area.

This was announced awile back, I think sometime over the winter. Just one more empty warehouse in Southwest Ohio.

[OhioChick]

10. Ohio

is quickly becoming a ghost town, isn't it?