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IBM Shifts 14,000 Jobs to India

Posted by Zonk on from the wave-goodbye-to-blue dept.

Omar Khan writes "The New York Times reports, 'Even as it lays off up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the U.S., IBM plans to increase its payroll in India this year by more than 14,000 workers.' Slashdot previously covered the black-and-blue strike, in which the union wondered, 'if other cost cutting mechanisms could achieve the same effect without cutting so may jobs.'"

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  1. oops by swelke · · Score: 3, Funny

    And this happens just when I was starting to think of IBM as the good guys...

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  2. I.B.M == ??? by ArielMT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does IBM now stand for "Indian Business Machines"? If they're scaling back so much on the two most developed continents, they don't seem so "international" anymore... what dinosaurs.

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  3. I'm screwed? by g0dsp33d · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess a programming major insn't enough. Now I need to learn Indian as well.

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    1. Re:I'm screwed? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Funny

      Besides "Indian" isn't a language.

      ugh. me wantum job. me needum job.

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  4. Obligatory South Park Quote by PhotoBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Outsource everything except the board members to India
    2) ?
    3) Profit!

  5. It's an Open Source donation to themselves! by lux55 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really, this just means 14,000 more EU and US programmers can now work on IBM's Open Source initiatives without having to be on payroll. Don't programmers seem to prefer that anyway?

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  6. Re:Can you give some tangible examples? by holzp · · Score: 2, Funny

    becomes sometimes instead of Big Indians, you hire Little Indians who wind up coding everything backwards.

  7. Haha by kaellinn18 · · Score: 3, Funny

    [I am not saying anything either way.]

    Way to straddle the fence at the end there. Did you put that there because you actually have no opinion or were you afraid of the random Slashdot mods?

    You probably would have gotten -1 Heartless Capitalist if you'd said that the Indians should have the jobs.

    And you probably would have gotten -1 Economics 101 if you'd said the jobs should stay in the US.

    I salute your ability to attain a +4 Insightful (as of the time of this writing) without actually saying anything at all.

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  8. Re:MOD PARENT UP by Silkejr · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's when slashdot mod points will be the next currency :)

  9. Re:Message sent, but will it be received? by Qzukk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure theres enough wal-marts out there to employ 95% of the 80 year olds as greeters.

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  10. Re:You Need a PhD in Economics by mfnickster · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why don't you start a business, pay your employees to buy your products, and see how long you'll last.

    They already did that; it's called 'Amway' or something... ;)

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