The Cincinnati Dealer - Convergys Drops Charade, Moves Entire Company To India

Convergys Drops Charade, Moves Entire Company To India

By Gerard Oh | Dealer staff writer

Wed, Jan 26, 2005

In the wake of last week's announced elimination of 600 jobs nationwide, Convergys Corp announced today that it will be dropping this ridiculous charade and moving all their offices to India, effective immediately.

CEO James Orr remarked that they had suckered that sweet-ass deal out of the city last year, and that by now they had "milked that cow for all she was worth."

In related news, Councilmember John Cranley was downsized today, as his position was outsourced to India.

Luken explained, "Since John doesn't really seem to do anything around here anyway, we figured that we could be getting the same results at a fraction of the office and staff costs by offshoring." Luken continued, "If this is successful, look for more of the same," as he eyed Chris Monzel.

Quick Poll

A weighted voting system, Proportional Representation (PR), may be on the ballot. How do YOU feel?

	This poll is invalid since I can't rank my choices.
	Leslie Ghiz is my #1, but I can't decide who to rank #2, Pat Fischer or John Eby.
	I can understand why the NAACP supports PR, since Charlie Winburn would likely replace Laketa Cole on council in 2009.
	I prefer the current model of electing the same 9 people every two years.
	I'm torn about PR. I would love to rank Sam Malone in dead last on a PR ballot, but I don't know if I could stomach voting for him.
	Does this mean Justin Jeffre and Michael Earl Patton will stop running for Council after they discover they still can't win under PR? Then I'm all for it.
	This system will only encourage more crazy people to run for City Council... and so I support it.
	Call me old-fashioned, but I would prefer it if the candidates with the most votes win.

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