Just heard today (in the press) that a certain large blue company is sending some programming jobs overseas to India. About 5000 of them, to be exact.
This is one time I'd be happy to be shown wrong.
Jim
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Don't worry, Jim. In either the Wall Street Journal or The Economist over the last couple of days, they reported that some of those jobs actually are going to China...
Last I looked, Itty Bitty Machines was declining to comment on the story.
Maybe It's false; the other alleged name, "I've Been Moved," would have to go in favor of "My Job's Been Moved." MJBM simply hasn't got the same ring to it.
If this keeps up, who is going to buy the $ 500,000 homes in Westchester ? One of these days, the houses in Orange County and associated region, that went for 40,000 15 years ago and now fetch 300,000 are going to collapse. Since 9/11/01, the amount of people moving out of NYC is mind boggling. These commuters think a 3-4 hour commute per day is good. A bad day is 5-6 hours. I'd rather live in a trailer, work for Walmart and go fishing and hunting than be a commuter. The only good jobs left in NY are government, tax based jobs. Can't see this ship out of control going on forever. I've been thinking like this for many years but the ship keeps going............. I must be too conservative and too cautious of any long term debt.
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That is quite true. That company always did have a large overseas presence. I guess I would not be so red-faced if I knew that they were simply *hiring* more programmers because the work load was high. But I wonder if the purported savings are going to come at some domestic price....
Jim
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We bailed out of AOL (for my wife's account) when our technical problems wound up on a help desk in India. Nothing against the Indians, but our people have to eat too.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:31:41 GMT, "Tom Gardner" brought forth from the murky depths:
That's right. That would show some scary:
1) The job could be done by anyone in the the general population of any old country.
2) The job could be handled by someone making $600 rupees/wk ($35/weekUSD) rather than $158,000USD per year. (The $158k is
50% higher than they made in 1990 since they gave themselves raises for LACK OF UNITY, unfinished bills, 5,000 PORKBARREL riders, etc. every year.)
3) The job could be performed with much higher morale and a better moral attitude than is currently being shown.
4) The job could be handled efficiently with MUCH less pork.
and last but not at all least,
5) It would show us just how badly we're getting bent over by our own government.
God Bless America and Flush the CONgress.
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