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IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas
helixcode123 writes "According to the New York Times (also on Yahoo News), IBM is planning on moving a substantial number of high level jobs overseas to 'India and other countries.' IBM argues, in essence, that they need to do this to stay competitive. The article
quotes that Forrester Research '...estimated that 450,000 computer industry jobs could be transferred abroad in the next 12 years, representing 8 percent of the nation's computer jobs.'"
...I'll move to India. That'll fuck em' over!
8 percent!
That means that 92% of us will still be around.
Yippee!!
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Antiquated competence won't be a job skill forever.
Welcome to capitalism. You must be new here?
Don't be too perturbed if they make fun of your American accent though.
"dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"
...named Dilbert.
I'm sure that someone with a higher IQ than the next 10 average customers in line combined wouldn't be good. I had a hard enough time dealing with idiot customers who couldn't figure out how to articulate their order when I worked there as a kid. I can imagine now:
Customer: I want 3 happy meals and 2 big mac meal deals.
Me: What kind of happy meals?
Customer: What kind are there?
Me: Its on the menu. The same place its been since I was 17 years old and working at this joint.
Customer: Hmm...lets see...where is it?
Me: *sigh* in the corner...hamburger, cheesburger, or mcnuggets?
Customer: All hamburger.
Me: Ok, what kind of drink with those?
Customer: With what?
Me: What were we just talking about? Wasn't it happy meals? What kind of drink with the happy meals?
Customer: oh, orange sprite (the list of drinks would have sprite follow orange on the menu, so it was common to have people order "orange sprite")
Me: No, its either orange or its sprite. Which one?
Customer: But it says orange sprite right there.
Me: Oh, so you couldn't find the damn happy meal, but can find the one spot on the menu where the order in which the choices of drink flavor are enumerated is a little ambiguous? It also appears to say diet coke ice-tea there too, but you know that would taste like shit and wouldn't order that. So, no orange-sprite, just orange or sprite. They are mutually exclusive, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!?
Customer: ok, orange. I also want ketchup only on one of the happy meals, pickles only on one, and cheese only on one.
Me: Ok, first, why the hell didn't you specify the toppings were something other than the default back when we were standing on the imaginary circle in the imaginary state diagram that everyone in the world except you seems to follow when ordering fast food? And there is no CHEESE on a HAMBURGER you fucktard! Sorry, state token has expired, YOU EAT THE DEFAULT BIATCH!
Customer: You're rude, I want to speak with your manager!
Manager: What seems to be the problem here?
Customer: I was just trying to order some happy meals and your employee here was being rude and won't give me orange sprite.
Manager: Orange sprite? We don't have orange sprite.
Customer: It says so right there on the menu.
Manager: Hmmm....I see all the drinks, but I don't see orange sprite.
Me: She thinks because orange is next to sprite that it means orange sprite numnutz.
Manager: Oh, we're not allowed to mix drinks.
Me: Can we get this over with please?
Manager: Patience my young padawan burger flipper.
Me: Ok, thats it....where is the nearest sharp instrument? Or would you prefer to be stuffed into the ice machine?
Ah, to be young again....
You mean to tell me that International Business Machines might employ people in other countries!?
:-P
I hear they are going to change their name to Indian Business Machines
Table-ized A.I.
IBM Moving Jobs Overseas
I didn't know IBM had that kind of clout with Apple. Poor Steve, did he have any say in this at all? What about his family, are they moving too?
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.