April 19, 2004

Bad situation, good quote

Scott Kirwin, a computer consultant in Wilmington, Del., was a contract worker for J.P. Morgan Chase for about three years when he was told he was being let go. He says the contract was ended so that Indian workers could replace him. He was asked to train the replacements, he says, in order to keep getting a paycheck.

"You feel like you're the guy wearing the red shirt on Star Trek," Scott Kirwin, a computer consultant in Wilmington, Del., was a contract worker for J.P. Morgan Chase for about three years when he was told he was being let go. He says the contract was ended so that Indian workers could replace him. He was asked to train the replacements, he says, in order to keep getting a paycheck.

"You feel like you're the guy wearing the red shirt on Star Trek," says Kirwin, referring to characters who often died on the TV show.
(from USA Today)

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