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BusinessWeek on Outsourcing

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. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP

  2. India Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Inida, a country full of smelly fucking faggots. They have nothing to eat, they fear when they get female children (because they belive in them to be worthless) and their computer code looks like total clusterfuck. Needless to mention that they can't teamwork. Their mentality is totally different than ours so they can't even work with us.

  3. GOTO SLEEP YOU FUCKIN GEEKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Old Stories by Vendekkai · · Score: -1, Troll

    These stories have been on BusinessWeek for a couple of weeks - one is dated December 8 and the other December 15. These have also been discussed to death on lists and online forums.

    How is this news?

    V

  5. I'LL OUTSOURCE MY COCK TO YOUR ANUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  6. India Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    India people are stealing out jobs. They are cheaper but their work quality sucks even more.

  7. Re:Getting out of IT... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why not to India?

    Who wants their code to look like shit and arrive 6 months too late?

    Might as well have curry cock, too. It makes just as much sense.

  8. Slashdot is now edited in INDIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dont know why Slashdot is repeating this topic so very often.
    I wonder if the editors of Slashdot are paranoid that their jobs may be sent overseas!
    Slashdot is turning into a "bash your way to popularity" scheme, where they just ignite pent up anger among the foolish populace with a spark!

    Slashdot sux!

  9. serves US right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    after allowing/encouraging our owned domestic terrorist/payper liesense stock markup FraUD corepirate nazi softwar gangsters to attempt to take the whole wwworld as information/commerce hostages, to finance their greed/fear/ego based megalomania, it's not surprising that/how the wwworld is reacting.

    BusinessWeak(tm) should have been reporting the fleecing of america, as well as the poteNTshill for wwworld reaction, at least 5 years ago.

    lookout bullow. the ?pr? ?firms? are also preparing to 'outsource' the growing need for MiSleading hypenosys.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator... get ready to lighten up.

    has anywon tried robbIE's gnu 'dating' service yet?

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  11. Instability will possibly bring the jobs home? by hrbrmstr · · Score: 1, Troll

    In all the talk about outsourcing to India, I keep wondering when CxO's and VP's will wake up to the fact that India and Pakistan both have *nukes* pointed at each other. It wouldn't take much for *another* military takeover of Pakistan to start a real war (extremists tend to not flinch at the possibility of killing lots of people).

    Even without nukes, both countries have a large population they could throw at each other (India being more capable in this area).

    Who in their right mind would invest heavily in such an immensely instable region? "We" are "over there" right now (Afganistan and Iraq) so business folks "feel good" about that area. When we leave (ok, *if* we leave) or if there's a big-ish skirmish between Pakistan "rebels" and/or Indian "rebels", we may just see all the jobs come running home.

    --
    Mind the gap...