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Lowering the Odds of Being Outsourced
Lam1969 writes "Computerworld points to a study by the Society for Information Management, which concludes that the best thing young IT workers can do to avoid being outsourced is beef up their management skills. The article quotes Thomas Tanaka, a recent computer engineering graduate, describing a recent job interview: 'While the Santa Clara, Calif., resident has generally been looking for entry-level software jobs with IT vendors, he recently had an interview with a financial firm looking to fill an in-house IT position. That's where his lack of business background was exposed.'"
which concludes that the best thing young IT workers can do to avoid being outsourced is beef up their management skills.
Sure! Let's all become donut-stuffing middle managers! Then we can all make the house payments!
Best thing IT workers can do to avoid being outsourced is to reduce their cost of living by moving in to the urine-soaked refrigerator box behind Clem's Seafood Grill at the beach. Don't plan on anything important like health insurance or light. Forget having a family or a home. Just plan on a non-stop string of benefit-less underpaid jobs working for lying fuck rat bastard cheat chair-wedged-ass hairpiece moneygrab space-age-greased greed on wheels. That's the social contract now. Work your ass off getting an education and then get FUCKED OVER UNTIL YOU STARVE OR RETIRE.
This has nothing to do with profits or business. They fire people in order to make them suffer. Management fires people because they can, and it's wrong. Simple as that.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
$11/hour? Ooooooo.. wow. Now that's a lot of money.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.