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Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing
theodp writes "India offshore tech support companies may soon face job losses as U.S. companies such as IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and PeopleSoft explore countries with even cheaper sources of technical labor, including Romania, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Concerned that outsourcing might be outsourced from India in the near future, a Bangalore call center owner said 'It's hard to know where it will all end. Is there a country where people will work for free?'" There's a Newsforge story about the same subject.
Oh well. I can always fall back on that SCOX stock.....oh wait.....
It's really hard to come up with anything else to add to this story. I mean, did anyone _not_ see this coming? Global companies will do what's cheapest...and there will always be someone who'll be cheaper than you.
Now, when they start outsourcing management...that's when I'll be happy.
Is there a country where people will work for free? Yeah, the GNU.S.A.
The Republican party has a solution for these companies to stop job losses and profit loss.
1) Take away your rights with a new PATRIOT Act
2) Give tax cuts to the wealthy
3) PROFIT!!!
>Is there a country were people will work for free?
What about Irak? After all, these guys have been "liberated". They have the chance to share their useless oil ressources with the US ; they could work for free in exchange.
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Elbonia, lovely Elbonia
"Is there a country were people will work for free?"
Yes, such a country exists. However, to be part of this country you need to have a big needle stuck in the back of your head and your whole body gets submerged in Astrolube. Your then stored in this "pod" where this "dream" of your life is pumped into your brain by a big computer.
Now, in this dream your actually answering the phone and solving technical problems and you only "think" your getting paid for it. In real life, that money is getting collected so that more people can get plugged into the machine to make them more money...
There was this dude who realized it was a dream and managed to wake up. He now cleans the floors in the building that holds all the people and the big computer. We hear him wanding around go "Damn Red Buritto..."
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
BEHOLD!
The merciless portscanner of GAUNMAP! Coded deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum...
This is even better, now you can get even more developers for the same price, or the price for Indian developers will be cheaper. It's a win-win situation for you.
it kinda sucks for the Indian employees who are going to be out of work now.
Maybe this will lead to an explosion of Indian blogging.
I am the American government. I am the Democratic party and the Republican party. I am the CEO of AOL. I am the Nation of Islam. I am an Indian worker at a cheap plant in Bangladesh.
I am Stephens sense of moral outrage.
I am Stephen's appendix. I become inflammed and kill Stephen. w00t
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Does anyone else have visions of the time that Apu got fake US citizenship documents?
"What do you say that we take a relaxed attitude towards work and watch the baseball game? The 'NYE' Mets are my favourite squadron."
- In Capitalist America, law violates YOU!
That script does make sense. If the user is killed by the debugging procedure, then the user's problems are over and the service ticket can be closed.
before they discover little purple methane-loving aliens who will program for poop. Stop them Mars probes while we are at it. Just because Mars microbes are tiny does not mean they don't have the ability to get PhD's and take our jobs.
Table-ized A.I.
just like in 'Dilbert'.
Scott Adams was right!
Hell, an idiotic cocaine addict could become President of the United States given the right circumstances. You'd just need the right team of advisors and enough backing from some powerful political party to brainwash the masses into believing you're more than a cocaine addicted moron. It's possible, but highly unlikely that this would occur given our enlightened society.
While the corporations are outsourcing everything to the lowest bidder, they're forgetting something important. SOMEBODY HAS TO BE ABLE TO BUY THEIR SHIT!!! If all the American workers are unemployed, and the Romanians are working for $100 per month, who's going to buy their shit? At best they'll have to lower their prices dramatically; at worst they're outta business!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
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