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thus cement his rise straight to a presidency desk, was to
     eliminate all of the on-shore staff. To do that, he needed a project the board would leap at, thus the “world view” project
     became the goose laying the golden eggs in Kent's eyes. He could enlist Big Four Consulting, which had just gotten the off-shoring
     contract, to put together a spreadsheet with staff hour estimates that were amazingly high for an integration project. Then
     he would have them put together what the project would cost using their off-shore development staff versus the cost of on-shore
     labor at their standard contracting rates. His staff would of course have to train their own replacements before being shown
     the door.
    Kent wouldn't even have to finish the project. He would get the credit for it, and his replacement would have to deliver it.
     His replacement would have to work at least a year before he could come up with some other cost cutting measure, and it would
     all pale compared to the costs Kent had cut. His walk around the company had a very special “I'm the man!” strut today.
    ***
    Kathryn, project manager for Big Four Consulting, was ecstatic when she heard the news they had won the contract. All of the
     schmoozing had paid off big time. She quickly notified the services manager and got the contract drawn up to overnight to
     Kent for him to sign. Each invoice presented to the bank had to be below a certain dollar amount so Kent could approve it,
     but they could invoice as often as needed.
    Unlike most projects, they were actually going to do this one instead of just generate paper. They had already contracted
     with a communications company to provide all of the communications cut over effort for about a quarter of what was in the
     contract. A huge data center had been built in Bangalore. While a large amount of networking and communications equipment
     had been installed, not a lot of computers were there. The contract with First Global Bank would get the ball rolling. All
     of the mainframe and midrange computers used by that company had excess capacity. A deal would be struck to purchase the largest
     models available from those computer vendors and get them installed. Once installed, they could sign another deal with another
     client that used the same equipment and bill them out twice. This was going to be a massively profitable venture!
    With the overnight sent out and her phone calls made, Kathryn was dreamily calculating what her commission would be from this
     project. Judging from the email sent out with commission rates for project managers, she would be pulling in an extra $50K
     per quarter once this project got moving. Not bad at all.

First You Build the Wheel
    John arrived in Bangalore and went to one of the addresses provided him to rent a place to live. He took an apartment in a
     complex built by one of the American companies there. It was very expensive, but came with air conditioning and an Internet
     connection. Getting a reliable Internet connection in India was more of an obstacle than one from a first-world country could
     imagine. All you had to do was look at the mud trails that passed for streets to see hundreds of cables wrapped around a single
     telephone pole which had two or three other poles propping it up from either side. Power, phone, high-speed Internet, all
     wrapped in a big bundle at the top of the pole. It looked like one of those massive rubber band collections you see pictures
     of on the Internet.
    Once his computer was set up he immediately set out masking the IP address and then retrieving his email. There were lots
     of pending messages. He had been gone almost long enough for his mailbox to overflow. He started the deleting and purging
     jobs and began forwarding the messages to their intended recipients. It took him the better part of the afternoon to get through
     the existing email.
    With the email handled, he went out for a walk past the technology companies to see