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The Full Outsourcing Discussion
GileadGreene writes "Thomas Friedman of the New York Times recently did an interesting Op-Ed piece about the "silver lining of overseas outsourcing": the growth that it generates in the US job market as Indian companies outsource work that US workers are better at. Apparently total exports from US companies to India have grown from $2.5 billion in 1990 to $4.1 billion in 2002 as well. So maybe this outsourcing thing isn't so bad after all." Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
It's easy enough for Hemos to say that -- until his job at ./ gets outsourced to India or the Philippines. You know, it'd be pretty easy to do that for all the ./ editors ... hmmmm ...
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
Now there ya go! Drop that doomed programming-job, and hop on to become a real Coca Cola truckdriver yea!
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
* Server implementation in latest tech - We'll do that
* XSLT internationalized web gui - We'll do that too
* SOAP and XML-RPC interface - Us again
* Integration with legacy COBOL system - Give it back to the yanks
>Attention Americans: Can architect masterful C++ for $4.50/hr|email
>cheapcode@hinduhome.com| PayPal accepted!
Has the phrase "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" ever been more true?
Where does Coke bottle the water? They don't ship it over from the US. They probably have a filtering and bottling plant down the street.
True, but the local bottlers must license the secret formula for water from Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, GA.
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Then we tax every corp in the world, regardless of whether they do business in the U.S. or not, for the privilage of being able to sell in the US. If they don't pay, well, they'll be considered a rogue corp and dealt with occordingly.
This way we (in the U.S.) can sit around on our asses and do nothing! Think about it - permanent vacation!!!
Some people, I think the Morphia or something like that, invented this a few years ago. They call it "protection" I think.
Something to consider.
Yes, I'm joking.
There is no spoon or sig.
If you write free code, then how can an Indian programmer be any cheaper.
What are you guys worried about anyway?
"I guarantee you we wouldn't have an H1-B and an outsourcing problem if these programs targeted lawyers."
Muahahaha! Quite so, sir. You're ahead of me.
I cheer myself by imagining a fantasy world where there are H1Bs for politicians.
... in the eyes of management who are so rich they don't need to work in the first place.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
.. sits a white caucasian guy munching a bagel. His phone rings and he leaps into life... 'Hello, thank you for calling Coca Cola India. My name is... er... Gupta. Isn't the weather in Bombay warm at this time of year? How may I help you?'
Since the U.S. is outsourcing jobs that can be, literally, performed by peons for pennies on the dollar why doesn't OSDN ship the maintenance of Slashdot to India? Surely a bunch of Indians, who received education in proper English, can maintain such a mess of a script that is Slashcode. And they certainly could do a better job at catching duplicate articles (search archives before greenlighting submissions = how hard?). And then we don't have to sit through the incessant naive political one-liners from incompetent "editors."
then after you've been "branded" Colgate starts putting small amounts of tobacco and sugar in your toothpaste to get you addicted and to decay your teeth. then you'll be on "the patch" to quit your bad teeth brushing habits! what a mess you'll be in then, i say!