India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada

securitas writes "Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada. The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers."

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LOL, nice bias

[squarooticus]

Candidate John Kerry has also said he'll add a $2 trillion dollar giveaway in the form of universal health care to everyone projected to be on the dole when it gets implemented without raising my taxes.

Right.

Re:why do we care what kerry said?

[crawdaddy]

This is 'news for nerds.' In this instance, Bush is anti-nerd and Kerry is pro-nerd. Would you have been happier if the poster had added "Bush isn't against outsourcing"? What if the roles were flipped and the poster said "Bush is against outsourcing"?

While this may be a community for nerds, I'm sure there are plenty of uninformed people here that may or may not know where the current candidates (that have a shot at winning) stand on issues that affect this community. The poster is simply pointing out the pro-nerd candidate for this topic (which also helps for people who decide to just read the summary and not the article).

Re:Kerry in the senate...

[BCW2]

I'd like to see his voting record brought out on intelligence issues. Who voted for every cut in the intelligence budget before 9/11? Who blames Bush for the intelligence failures of Iraq? Looks like the same person to me.

What he says he wants to do about outsourcing is one thing, what the congresscritters let him do will be different. Remember that they are bought and paid for by special interests.

To late now, but for the next 4 elections, why don't we find amatures to send to Washington and the state legislatures? Look what the profesional politicians have done to us! Businessmen (small but succesful), Doctors, Teachers, any people that have actually done productive work. That does not include Lawyers, they write laws in such convoluted language that it gives them perpetual employment translating that crap, a conflict of interest.

Foreign Call Center Nightmare

[macdaddy]

I just spent over an hour and a half on the phone with Amazon Customer Service (or utter and complete lack thereof). I bought a set of Wusthof knives for my mother for X-mas (Hi mom! Hope she doesn't read /. and ruin the surprise). The Wusthof Grand Prix 7-piece set contained 5 knives and two other items (wooden storage block and sharpening rod or "steel"). When it got here the set was short a knife and contained a set of shears. The advertising text clearing said it should have contained an 8" carving knife and instead it contained a pair of Wusthof come-apart shears. The shears kick ass; I own a pair myself and I ordered a pair to go with the knife set because there's a slot made for the shears to slip in to. Unfortunately this means I have an extra pair of shears. I submitted the tech support form for Amazon on the 22nd detailing the problem. On the 23rd they replied and said they'd check into it and resend. The replacement came today. It has the same problem. The knife is gone and the shears are in its place. Now both boxes have a black & white sticker on the side that gives you a wire frame picture of each item in the box. The sticker matches the contents but no what's on Amazon's website. I spent at least 45 minutes on the phone today trying to explain to the customer service woman that answered what the problem was. Towards the end of the 45 minutes she finally asked if the knives weren't sharp enough. I about screamed. She said she'd talk to her supervisor about the sharpness right away. I told her to do that and to bring her super back with her so we could attempt to fix the problem. 10 minutes later her "team leader" gets on the line and I begin to explain the problem to him. I could barely understand her. Every other sentence I said was "could you please repeat that" or "say again please." I was really hoping that her super would speak English better or that I might even get forwarded back to the US for further assistance. She obviously couldn't understand me anymore than I could her. Unfortunately her super wasn't from the US and his English was almost as bad. Finally we got to the point where he thought he understood the problem and was ready to refund my $$. He said he would forward the problem on to another group who would look into the advertising snafu and hopefully fix it within the week. Or at least I think that's what he said.

I'm still going to buy the set of knives for my mother. I've been able to handle these knives for a week now and I've got to say they feel absolutelty teriffic. The weight and balance of this full tang knife is amazing. I wonder if Slashdot would take a review on a set of cooking knives... When it comes to good quality knives there's Wusthof and Henckels. There was an enormous discount on them at the time so I got an excellent deal on this stellar set of knives ($180 bucks I think). I think I'm going to buy another set for myself as a present too. Hell I might just make that my general purpose X-mas gift for all my family this year. That's a damned good idea! If anyone happens to buy them, though, make sure you don't buy a set of shears too unless you just want your own set. For the foreseeable future t

Can some one please explain why ?

[iramkumar]

If Kerry says he will relax restrictions on purchasing cheap drugs from Canada, it is good for the American people. If Kerry says that he will impose restrictions on corporations purchasing comparatively cheap labor from Canada , it is bad for the American people. I see a dilemma here.