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Tech Employment Drops Sharply In 2004
Cryofan writes "According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that
the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004.
According to IT World, the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."
Microsoft and others were right about OSS. It destroys jobs and is flatly Un-American.
You people have reaped what you sowed.
...everyone is losing their jobs in nice, whole numbers. Keeps the statistics nice and pretty that way.
Relax!
According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years.
;-)
In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased, mainly due to lying about their geek stereotyped profession
Something must be wrong with the data. . .
The economy is doing wonderfully since the big tax cut. All those wealthy people who recieved thousands or even millions of dollars from the government went out and created jobs with that money, right?
I'm sure there are tech jobs being created, because there's a new McDonald's going up near my house. The new fryers are pretty high tech, so the fry cooks must be qualified IT professionals right?
And never mind the jobs report. Thirtythree thousand jobs is a shitload of jobs when you think about it. Besides, it was just a blip. The overall trend line is definitely on the upside, and we're sure to see some positive gains in the second half.
And I'm sure we'll see real cheap oil any day now. Just as soon as that Yukos thingie resolves itself. Or when we drill in ANWAR, as God intended.
You're all a bunch of pessimists, especially those of you that have been unemployed for longer than six months. And it's your pessimism that is dragging the economy down. So cheer up. Got that unemployed people? You're the problem and the American people aren't going to put up with it much longer. Get a job, hippy.
Oh, yeah, I'd blame it on Open Source, but it should be obvious from the above that I'm too ignorant to know what Open Source is.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Exactly. When a neighbor of mine became unemployed due this off-shoring phenomena, he opened up his own business selling used and small goods. Household stuff mostly. His computer, tv, the living room furniture. Unfortunately, he didn't have the business sense to roll that revenue back into buying more merchandise. He unwisely chose to pay his electric bill and mortgage instead. But even that didn't stop him, he then start leasing his own body to those that wanted quick sexual gratification.
So as you can see, it's a blessing in disguise when you lose your job to an Indian that can barely speak english, and gets paid 14 cents per 16 hour day.
The folks I work with stopped calling me an IT professional some time last year... using instead the more apt term "IT Asshole".
Burn-out does that to you.
disclaimer: If you live in india; Don't take it personally, i make fun of everyone for all the wrong reasons.
Slashindia.org headlines:
The number of people calling themselves IT-professionals have increased by 1175% and those calling themselves programmers 2500%.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
I, for one, welcome our 18+-wheel Devry-trained highway juggernaut overlords. (Something has to prey on the SUV populations.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
sure shows the appropriateness of a recent political cartoon from Ben Sargent.
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