The photo of the last stand of doomed IT workers
The IT employees at Northeast Utilities in Connecticut tried to save their jobs. The contacted local media, local politicians. They told anyone who would listen what was going on.
They were going to lose their jobs. It was a shock, not just for the IT workers, but for the state.
Northeast Utilities was a stable employer. Its customers were in the state. It couldn't move to China. It couldn't abandon the state. And so people thought.
But then Northeast Utilities merged with NStar, a Boston utility. (Now known as Eversource Energy).
Soon after the merger, the trouble started. The utilities leadership hired India-based IT outsourcing firms.
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