Long Term Effects of Outsourcing

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 5, 2004 @02:28AM from the the-battle-rages-on dept.

simulate writes "There have been several postings about outsourcing and offshoring in the past few weeks. Is outsourcing just a fad? In Outsourcing Programmers is Bad Strategy for Software Companies author Michael Bean compares offshoring to the enthusiasm for Internet startups in the Nineties. He claims that outsourcing programmers is bad for companies not because of the programmer layoffs, but because technology companies lose their capacity to innovate. Offshoring is a mistake when technology companies confuse operational effectiveness and strategy." I don't think the comparasion to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades. Still interesting piece.

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Suggestions for American Programmers by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 02:59 · Score: 0, Troll

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1. Stop fucking whining about your incompetent, overpaid fat-asses being pushed out of your cushy web monkey jobs in favour of 5 harder (much harder) working, more ethical, and more deserving Indians doing 10 times the work.

2. Tell Lou Dobbs to SHUT THE EVER-LIVING FUCK UP!

3. Find replacement work more suitable for your talents. Might I suggest retail, or retail food services?

4. Stop pissing off the rest of the world and maybe the rest of us will actually WANT to hire or invest in America.

5. Fingerprint me for wanting to visit your crime ridden shithole? No thanks, guess I will NEVER visit there and bring my much needed tourist and investment dollars there. I am not a criminal, so don't treat me like one. Instead, why not clean up your fucking stupid gun loving culture and rid the streets of your OWN criminals?

6. Fuck off and see suggestion #1.