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IT Worker Shortages Everywhere
Vicissidude writes with news from the IT front in India: "The software industry body Nasscom has warned that India faces a shortfall of half a million skilled workers by 2010. The country will need 350,000 engineers a year, but no more than 150,000 of the most highly skilled engineers will be available each year." This shortfall is fueling a new development, the exporting of Indian tech jobs to the US. But will there be workers in the US to do those jobs? Reader Jadeite2 writes with a word from Bill Gates, speaking to a business forum in Moscow, who said: "There is a shortage of IT skills on a worldwide basis. Anybody who can get those skills here now will have a lot of opportunity."
Most IT workers aren't short all over. They're only short where it counts...
This guy's the limit!
(See previous story). What this will do is (A) give those spammers a legit job, and (B) take the operators of the spam-bots out of the mix, and (C) keep them busy with other things so they can't be bothered to spamminate the 'Net, and (D) solves the problem of the shortage in that particular area.
How to fix that issue: pass a law that you have to pay any employee or contracted employee a sum that is at least the prevailing wage for the area in which the company is located, and national laws also must apply.
Cool! All the outsourced Indian IT jobs for Americans, at minimum wage, you can eat.
KFG
If by "fix" you mean "create a giant clusterfuck", then yes, that would fix things nicely.
Yeah, the only people who have any IT skills in Nigeria are all trying to get help moving their vast fortunes to the US, and only need a little help from some willing citizens (who will be handsomely rewarded) to do it.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
God, another guy who cant cope with the system and therefore thinks that its broken.
There's nothing wrong with it, there's something wrong with you.
Fix yourself first. Don't start wishing death and destruction on everyone else just because you can't get along.
Randy: (thick southern drawl) This here's Srijan Technologies, can we help y'all?
Ranjeet: (prim British Accent) I am having a problem with your SMTP server's configuration, can you help me diagnose the problem?
Randy: Shoot! We'll tree that possum in no time!
Ranjeet: What? A possum?
Randy: I'm sayin' it's a cakewalk son! A no-brainer! We specialize in them-thar' SMTP whatchacallits.
Ranjeet: Are you speaking English? Do you have someone else I can talk to?
Randy: I reckon' so. HEY BUBBA!! PICK UP ON LINE ONE!!!
That's pre 7-11 thinking....
No most companies want you to be 21 years old, with a Ph.D, 10 years of work experience and willing to for $4/hr.
Oh yeah, I'll definitely be taking major economic advice from a random guy on Slashdot and another guy who thinks he knows more about our "realities" than most people.