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IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries
TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas. "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States. "
This is the FREE MARKET doing what it does best. Listen folks, I like you, I really do, it's fun to have socialists and statists around to make fun of, but if your skills are not valuable enough to retain a job here, then either you should learn new skills or you should take the offer and MOVE.
I hate unions. I think this is hilarious. It makes a real statement about how americans are still valued, but our expectations are screwed up when it comes to wages vs. cost of living. We all want to be billionaires, but we want all of our goods and services cheap. That is an unrealistic expectation and just plain bad math. The unions that preach the BS are driving companies into the ground. It's no wonder they outsource.
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But could you imagine your entire existence being spent surrounded by telephone tech support people? You know, the ones with the accent so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw?
They'd have to pay me $25/hr to live there, even if a 4 bedroom house did rent for $50 a month.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Where the **** are my mod points when I need them.
You want to 'protect' American jobs? Get your savior to fulfill his campaign promises to the unions and stand up to Europe, Asia and the rest and start restricting and/or banning imports. Renegotiate NAFTA.
For instance, when the euros start yelling about 'buy American' language in the Obama payoff bill you'll need to grow a pair and ignore it.
Don't bitch when the prices double or triple, and whatever you do DO NOT ask yourself if IBM is actually right and if so why.
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I don't recognize national borders. I'm trying to live my life without considering them. Perhaps this union guy from IBM should try to live his life the same way.
"Network Engineer". (Technician.) "Software Engineer". (Programmer.) If they don't have an bona fide engineering degree from a legitimate university, or if they don't drive trains or maintain a ship's engines, then they already are in sales...every day they try to sell themselves as something they're not.
Or better yet, tax the shit out of them
surprise, the reaganite scumbags have "disputed the neutrality" of this article.
Sorry schmucks, but reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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