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U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship
An anonymous reader writes "As painful as February's big job cuts were, they're even more painful since many of those jobs are never coming back as U.S. employers in a wide range of industries move more and more jobs overseas. CNN has the story." Salon has a good piece detailing how job requirements are changing, asking more and more for less and less pay.
Web designer having problem finding work, people across the globe collectively let loose a gasp of surprise.
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can you buy RAM with food stamps?
... the Japanese already took all of our jobs in the 80s!
Oh, wait...
my religion lies somewhere between buddhism and super monkey ball - pamphlet?
I asked a reasonably senior guy at Intel if they were hiring. His reply: "Sure we are hiring ... in China and India."
No, you are wrong. Everything is awful, and it will only get worse. There will be no improvement, ever. Oh, and "technology" was just a passing fad, it's over now.
sic transit gloria mundi
Let's face it. Times are tough. Budgets and earnings aren't what it used to be. We need to find ways to save money and tigthen our belts.
In short, we've got to outsource upper management to off-shore countries.
There are plenty of well trained and highly educated people in foreign countries that can do excellent upper-management work: CEOs, CFOs, vice presidents... and they'll do them for pennies on the dollar of the exhorbatent prices we pay for CEOs now. 40 million dollar golden parachute? No more!
Oh yeah, well India and China will never be able to make *and* deliver a pizza in under 30 minutes, so my job is safe.
I am an out of work web designer. I have a talent that is shared by thousands upon thousands of twelve year olds sitting in their parents basement. The only jobs I can find with "web design" in them are things I dont want to do. I guess I will start a website whining about it.
Oh give me a BREAK! Life sucks. You were probably getting paid an exhorbitant rate to do a job that just about anyone with half a brain and a handful of good manuals could do, and now, instead of moving out of a dead field, you are bitching and whining that the few jobs available arent what you want. Waah.
Get over it. Go get a _real_ job. Dig ditches. Put roofs on houses. The housing industry is in a huge boom.. I'm sure someone near you could use a dogsbody to carry things around or pick up construction scrap, and pay you a decent wage for a days work.
*feh*
Maeryk
Feminine Protection? What is that? A chartreuse flame thrower?
I worked for a company in San Francisco, and we had some college grads and some people with masters degrees that should have been paid less then $10 an hour. I know some guys that are still in college that could have done a better job... hence the company is out of business.
The same job I worked so many hours trying to pick up after those punks that it probably worked out that I got paid less then 10$ an hour as well.... damn you salary!
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Yes folks, I have realized, as an american citizen I stand NO chance of getting a tech job right now. So I put my plan into action.
/end satire
I'll renounce my american citizenship, fly to india, marry a native woman (to gain indian citizenship) and change my last name to Apu. Then, and only then will I apply for an american job under H1B visa laws. AND I'LL GET THE JOB WOOHOO!!! Oh and let's not forget, I'll need to bring 8k with me for that phony CS degree.
Boy will my bosses be surprised when they see toqer Apu is really a white dude that speaks perfect english! They might even sponsor me to become an american citizen again!