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Outsourcing Winners and Losers
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times has an article on the winners and losers of the outsourcing trend. It's a Q and A session with a distinguished panel of experts on the topic, including Professor M. Eric Johnson, who says that, 'Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.' Now I know coders aren't rocket scientists, but less advanced than project managers? Ouch."
We had a company meeting about outsourcing last week and I managed to get minutes ahead of time.
I quickly formed a new company and aged it.
Ahh you all should be so lucky to read as much Dilbert as me.
Plus many people are tired of fooling with people that can't speak decent english. I for one, have gotten to the point where I always ask for someone in states before I talk to tech. support.
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fuck you
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Before we all start patting ourselves on the back because Hackers Make the World Go Round, stop and think about how successful a project would be if you threw a bunch of new-collge-grad "hackers" into a room with no management.
Despite YEARS of brainwashing (by Scott Adams) that Management is useless and evil, which you all seem to be blinded by, the reality is: Management is far more critical than grunt biomass. A good manager is worth a hundred half-skilled underlings. And good managers are worht their pay because they are rare, but the there are millions of squids who can type "gcc main.c..." and hack with an open book.
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And, now, we are considered a burden that must be outsourced. It's ironic, isn't it? Corporations who owe us their very ability to do business worldwide have no gratitude or loyalty for us, and are brushing us aside as though we don't exist. We're just line items to them.
well... what did you expect from Capitalism?