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BusinessWeek on Outsourcing

Posted by michael on from the learning-hindi dept.

hotsauce writes "BusinessWeek has a couple of stories on the outsourcing of white collar jobs to India. One is a cover story on GE's fundamental research lab in Bangalore where scientists work on everything from the aerodynamics of turbines to plastics' molecular structure. The other is commentary on "America's worst-kept secret", and the effects of the upcoming elections on it."

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  1. But how? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need to figure out a way to outsource my unemployment.

  2. Re:India Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, well cowboys and Indians never really got on did they?

  3. I am from India by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am from India and sometimes I cry when I think that my new Humvee and 7 bedroom house is paid for by unemployed, suffering Americans. But then I get over it. Hooray!!!

  4. Refuse to talk to them? by MrSoccerMom · · Score: 3, Funny

    So will it do any good, after you've been laid off and the bill collectors start calling from India, to refuse to talk to anyone with an Indian accent? ;-)

  5. Re:Just Not Thinking by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
    worry when they see the new Sony robot that can run?

    I can see the headlines: "Why Johnny 5 Can't Run" (ref)

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  6. Re:India Colonizes Cyberspace while US colonizes I by leoaugust · · Score: 3, Funny

    Guess who is going to have more benefits in the long run ?

    Really ? In the Long Run? Economist John Maynard Keynes said In the long run ... we are all dead.

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  7. Re:Natural step. by orthogonal · · Score: 2, Funny

    They gladly pays it for a two person dinner that lasts one hour

    Gollum? Are those nasty Hobbitses Sam and Frodo not inviting you to join them for dinner again?

    They gladly eats the raw fishes that should be Gollum's?

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