Posted on 07/03/2016 8:35:09 AM PDT by Trumpinator
J.C. Penney is opening an IT office in Bangalore, India, as it restructures that critical department which was hurt during the retailer's failed reinvention in 2012 and 2013. The new IT office will have an emphasis on analytics, innovation and reporting capabilities, said Penney spokesman Joey Thomas.
With some IT job functions moving to India, some jobs now performed by contract employees in Penney's Plano headquarters will be cut, but Thomas didn't say how many.
Penney is hiring full-time IT engineers and analytics professionals for the new office in India and in Plano, he said.
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Fluor Corp, Hq. Irving Texas has very likely moved some accounting to India. (They moved design to Philippines and India years ago)
Head of Accounting:
Robin Chopra
Senior Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer
Robin Chopra is senior vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer of Fluor Corporation reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Prior to this role, Mr. Chopra was the controller of Fluor’s commercial operations in the Asia Pacific. In these roles, he was responsible for financial performance and support for the Asia Pacific region and the global finance functions supporting commercial operations.
Previously, he served as vice president of internal audit reporting to the corporate CFO, Biggs Porter, and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Since joining the company in 1991, Mr. Chopra held a variety of other positions, including finance manager of an onshore gas processing terminal and pipeline, UK controller, Europe, Africa and the Middle East/FSU controller, executive director of central finance services, and vice president of financial operations.
Currently, Mr. Chopra is a director over several of Fluor’s international subsidiaries.
Mr. Chopra has a Bachelor’s of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Surrey in England. In addition, he completed an advanced executive management program at Thunderbird University. Mr. Chopra is a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales with nearly 30 years of finance experience.
Ours finally, mercifully, turned into an arts and crafts store.
Curious as to why it was so desolate, I walked into it a few months before it was shuttered. From the lighting, decoration and layout of the store, it was like I took a time machine back to 1979. Surprised I didn't see ashtrays in the aisles but from the looks of the yellowed ceiling tiles, they hadn't been changed since smoking was permitted.
It was depressing. Dirty, overpriced, no arrangement. Bored employees socializing with one another as there were no customers to assist.
One of my biggest pet peeves is High Level Decision Makers who either don’t know their kiester from a cork pistol, or who give less than a damn about American jobs or customers.
Penneys’ biggest blunder occurred when they decided to blatantly pander to the various denominations of the sodomite crowd and ignore the meat and potatos, salt-of-the-earth folks who were the backbone of their customer base. That’s when they lost me, except for something available nowhere else. With this move to India; if I can’t find it anywhere else, I’ll do without.
Search on Fluor site for jobs in India, in finance yields 5 positions,
versus zero for Texas, and zero for California (previous corporate Hq.)
“Penney’s like Macy’s is hanging by a thread. Neither will be around much longer.”
I wouldn’t patronize either if you paid me. Waiting to see both of them go under.
Good! If they have to send something to India let it be this useless pie-in-the-sky busy-work nonsense. To have good reporting you have to know what you want. The IT department can't know your job for you. But Hey! Outsource it! Yeah, good idea!
100% spot on. Every word.
By sheer coincidence I shopped Penny’s online yesterday and wound up buying some sheet sets. Like many consumers, especially males, I had no idea how to shope for sheets.
I got a very knowledgeable service rep on chat and she was able to answer gerneral questions about the meaning of thread count and the feel of mircrofiber as well as some specifics about the particular set I was shopping.
All in all, it was one of the best IT websites I’ve shopped and the experience overall led to a sale. Then I went to Papa john’s pizza and signed up there for an online account and ordered a pizza. I finally got it to work for me, but the Penny experience was better.
Too bad they have to go to India.
The trouble is, the focus is too often on making the numbers look good for the next few quarters. Little, if any, consideration is given to the long-term effects of changes like this.
Who needs brick and mortar stores.
I get 90 percent of what I need online.
The final nail in the Penny’s coffin.
I am sick and tired of folks that I can barely understand reading a script.
They are nice, and I wish them no evil, but any company that offshores their help is off my list, if I can do so.
A lot of these off shored IT jobs are probably where much of the security breaches come from. Place the fox in the hen house.
Is JC Penney that company that went full blown nuts on the homosexual market and thus lost a TON of my business?
Huh.
Buwahahahah, total failure and it was all shut down, but the Indians sure enjoyed their time in California.
Also people like sales and promotions. It's enticing and informational to convey new product lines, styles, etc.
His idea of tokens within the store was so bad the CNBC panel laughed at it. Oh and playgrounds in the store? Nobody goes to Penney's to "hang out."
Great example of an Ivy League grad who forgets fundamentals such as knowing customer, how to generate sales, and puts too much faith in technology rather than core business (retail). Johnson plays up his time at Harvard and Apple. I wonder how much he had to do with Apple's turnaround, though - what his role was.
Finally, Johnson introduced RFID technology and partnered with Oracle but the system was abandoned before it hit production, IIRC. The new CEO seems to be moving in another direction. Is the new analytics deal with TCS (Tata?).
J.C. Penny?
Spit**
I stopped shopping there long ago. When you shove gay in my face I do not spend money there. Plus the quality tanked. I also moved and it’s a 30 mile drive to find one now. I am doing just fine not spending my money at JC Penny.
Many years ago when i worked at Penneys, we took shoes and boots back no questions asked, even if they were worn out.
I bought a lot of Haggar suits at my local Penneys.
A few years ago I tried to take back some catalog dress shoes that didn’t fit out of the box.
The clerk argued with me, refused to take them back then smirked as if she had `won.’ Never went back.
Yesterday our store could not open for an hour because of an upgrade that disabled the registers.
This goes hand in hand with disdain for middle American values by rootless cosmopolitans. Mayb e it reminds them when they were in the same class and hate to b e reminded of the time mom and dad clipped coupons because now they live in penthouses? Or were never in that class to begin with and like the movie CaddyShack hate or disdain the lower classes? I can only speculate.
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