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Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs
shonagon53 writes "The BBC reports that quite a few young European tourists stick around in India to work for eSolutions companies who contract outsourced work from European companies. The salaries are mediocre, but you get free housing, great food, snacks à volonté and a free taxi ride to work each morning.
Is this the first wave of the much anticipated reverse-migration which will be a hallmark of the 21st century?"
...so now I've got to listen to a European stoner when I call my bank :-(
Recently heard in downtown Mumbai: "Those damn foreigners are taking our jobs!!"
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Maybe they'll drive salaries up over there and they'll be forced to outsource the jobs to the U.S.
We've been trying to outsource lawyers for ages. No one else wants 'em.
If each country is going to be good at something in the global market, and everyone is carving out their niche, I say let India be the land of cubicles and tech support. More power to em.
I also would like to make a call now to solidify our position as the world leader in strippers.
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Of course.. You can eat snacks.. Stock options are only useful for after-snacking :-)
...you obviously haven't been watching the USD lately.
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Because its not like two nuke-club members are fighting over Kashmir, or anything. Pretty vistas, sure, but the chance of one day seeing a sunrise way off schedule and shifted deep into the gamma spectrum just kinda kills it for me.
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BTW, in India, diarrhea is so common, it is normal for you to respond to "how are you doing?" with "I have diarrhea"
Damn, dude, if it's that common, get a frickin' euphamism.
"How are you doing?"
"My elephant is rampaging again."
or
"I've got Ghandi's revenge again."
or
"I've been awarded the OBE (Order of Bowel Explosions)."
Use your imagination, make it fun.
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Actually, you call Dell.
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good news and bad news:
bad news: sex only after marriage.
good news: the father will actually pay in gold - for you to marry his daughter.
India - love it or loathe it but never indifferent.
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How about:
American goes to India and earns $5000 per year for two years. That makes him rich beyond the wildest dreams of his Indian peers. He lives like a king for $4,000 per year living costs, pisses another $500 per year up the wall on who knows what, and has $1000 left for his ticket home. He arrives home with the same bank balance as when he left, a big grin, and a hell of a lot of good stories...
As someone who is doing it right now (in China, not India), I can say that it absolutely rocks
Uhhm... you should really be paying more attention to the girl while you're "doing it". Slashdot is not a turn-on for everyone!
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Anyways, indian chicks do put out. Its why they are predicting that within 15 years, india will have the highest numer of Aids cases in the world.
I can't quite tell; was the author intending for this to be a good thing, or a bad thing?