More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002

stoolpigeon writes: "A study, released today by the AeA, shows that the U.S. high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs in 2002, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 million. However, a preliminary look at data for 2003 shows that the decline in high-tech employment has slowed considerably this year."

Comments

Found em.

[banzai75]

They were with my missing sock.

Re:We were deliberately fucked

[Black Parrot]

> "They" aren't out to get you.

Swallow the pill, Quaid.

Re:Jobs Lost?

[jagapen]

Outsourced management. I'm sure there's a CEO over in India who'd run the company for less than a quarter the compensation an American CEO expects. Plus, he'd be close to the workers!

Re:My Experience

[Cajun Hell]

I give the applicant my laptop, with a series of programming problems that should take no more than 15 minutes to solve.

Without exception, everybody fails or takes WAY too long to solve.

Yeah, I lost a job opportunity, but I still think I came out ahead -- whenever I think about the expression on your face when you realized I wasn't bringing your laptop back.

On the downside, I do hate your DVORAK keyboard layout. It took me 40 minutes to type this post. No wonder any of the other applicants ever finished their assignments.

Re:Military: good jobs, good training

[Anonymous Coward]

yes, and when the military is gone, all our base belong to the new candian overlords?

Re: It's slowing down.....

[Black Parrot]

> Great. This is like saying that a semi truck is running people down (GTA-like), but it's doing it slower now than before.

Next year it will slow to a stop, reverse, and run over you again.

Re:Graduate School?

[Anonymous Coward]

A lifetime career serving Big Mac's.

Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard.

[lucifuge31337]

Where is this mythical land?'

I belive it is called India.