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Outsourcing To Rural America
An anonymous reader writes "News.com is running a story about Rural Sourcing, a company attempting to make outsourcing to rural America as cost effective as sending jobs to India."
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The difference between offshoring to India and insourcing to rural areas?
Indians speak better English.
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So rather than "Tank you vor calling Cisco, dis is Singh, how may I help you?" I'll hear "Thanks fer callin' Cis-coe, this is Billy-Joe Jim-Bob, what's yer malfunction?"
It's a joke, lighten up.
Hurray! As part of the Bush initiative to grow the job market in America, skilled, college educated professionals can now make as much money as their counterparts in third-world countries!
America - I love this place!
I can stop worrying about my job going to India and start worrying about my job going to Indiana.
South Dakota gladly welcomes it's new in-sourcing overlords!
One hopes this expands my job prospects here... not that it matters too much, I love my job.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
For those of you unfamiliar with America's urban population densities, here's a map of the areas they are discussing. The rural areas are marked in Green and labeled "Jesusland".
it will be good news for American techies-at least the ones in rural communities and those willing to move there
But will they be able to survive without pizza deliveries?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Why contract with South Asians when you can contract with businesses run by good old American Indians? I'm sure somebody on the reservation could help you admin your Apache server.
The end of the article:
;)
If White is right, it will be good news for American techies-at least the ones in rural communities and those willing to move there.
If White is right? Interesting choice of words for an article about rural sourcing vs india.
Send those jobs to Toledo. Our government is into massive deficit spending.
We need work!!!!!!!!!!
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
But then again, some folks'll
Like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel
Most folks'll never lose a toe
But then again, some folks'll
Like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Maybe it wasn't a good idea to do this with that ballot-counting contract...
I keed!
&$#%^% NO CARRIER
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
I've considered opening a call center in my hometown in Indiana on a number of occassions. It just makes more sense than sending the jobs to India.
Do you have ESP?
They must have rural sourced that website, with its obviously dithered gifs, imagemaps, and lame stock photography.
I believe you mean "tech support what don't speak English."
English is easier said than done.
What would Brian Boitano do?
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
There's a reason why the population is declining in rural areas -- people move out as a) its boring as hell and b) there's no jobs there.
Yeah, but the crank is great!
It's boring as hell? not even close.
In the country you can do the things you'd get arrested for in the city.
Ever blow up your old tv instead of just throwing it away? How about doing 150mph on a dirt road?
We also get to do a lot of the things y'all pay tons of money for when y'all come visit us, for free. Do you know what it costs to rent a 4-wheeler and go ATV riding? it's pretty bad. We grew up doing it. You like horses? There is a horse farm behind my house.
And then there's the food. I have a garden with fresh vegtables in the spring and summer. We hunt wild animals in the fall-spring. And we have two things y'all only with you could have: Biscuts and Waffle Houses...
Probably my favorite part of living inthe south/rural area is the fact that instead of living in an apartment, I have 2 acres of land. My neighbors never keep me awake at night. I don't have to park and then walk to my house. And I actually own oxygen producers (trees).
Come visit the south, if you can get past the idiots, you should actually love it. There's nothing better than southern girls in the summer...
--Forest C. Adcock--
Kansas City is not rural. It may be a shade smaller than Boston, but if you've gotta drive more than 10-15 minutes to see farmland, you're not in a rural area. KC spans 2 friggin' states, has professional sports teams, and more than 1 Wal-Mart. Rural areas generally do none of those things.
Also, if you left work after dark, lots of people would try to sell you, uh, things on your way to your car.
That's why people live and work in cities. Try getting that kind of convenience in a rural area.
Sorry I was busy surfing the chest high waves over at Zuma and enjoying the 70 degree mid November beach weather.
Wait, why was East Buttfuck, Wyoming better then Southern California again?
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
THIS IS MY DREAM. The only thing that has ever made me doubt my career choice has been my perception that I'd have to live in the city to be a software developer. If I could live in small town Alberta/Saskatchewan and write software, I'd be one step closer to living the dream.
On that note, if anyone located in rural western Canada is looking for a developer, PLEASE EMAIL ME. MFJasonB-at-gmail.com
PS - WTF is up with people talking about the suburbs as if they're rural areas?
Yes, life would be so much better if I were a crofter who did not have to pay for things that I used to get from my clan.
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Let's see . . . in my current pitiful state, I'd be missing out on such fun things as going to war with vastly superior forces in order to defend my clan leader's stupidity/greed/badly misplaced sense of personal honor. If I survived, I could let him choose who I will marry, and he could kill me without concern if I slightly offend him while eating dinner. I could also work my entire life away on property that I will never own or be able to pass on to my children.
Nothing like the good old days . .
(I hope that was a joke.)