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IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring

Ian Lamont writes "IBM has filed a patent application that covers offshoring employees. Application 20090083107, dated March 26, 2009, is a 'method and system for strategic global resource sourcing.' Figure 2 gives a pretty good idea of what's involved — it shows boxes labelled 'Engineer,' 'HR,' and 'Programmer' with crossing arrows pointing to cylinders labelled 'India,' 'China,' and 'Hungary.' The article speculates that IBM may apply the methodology to its own staff — it reportedly plans to lay off thousands of employees and has even started a program to have IBM workers transfer to other countries at local wages."

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  1. Re:How many years has it been? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Africa? bullshit. Indians look like niggers but they're actually asian. that's why they're good at following directions, reading from a script, etc. Put a nigger on the other end of a tech support and if he bothers showing up for work, he'll probably spend all day trying to get laid with the fat white women that call in for help with their printers.

  2. Its a defensive patent... by Snotman · · Score: 1, Troll

    to be used against unscrupulous companies that use offshoring to lower operations costs that are incurred by over-paid US engineers, programmers, and HR(aren't they dirt cheap anyway?).

  3. Re:How many years has it been? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Someone mod this Insightful. Guy is completely spot on.

  4. Re:How many years has it been? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Indians are smarter than nigs, but it's unfair to call Indians proper Asians because Indians are much stinkier than nigs are. In contrast, the Japanese natrurally don't have B.O. and their military rejects those who do.

    Indians tend to think that they'll be totally alpha if they eat the stinkiest things possible(chutney and curry for starters) and then never bathe while they sleep in their own urine. Most cats enjoys baths more than Indians do, and Africans at least go bathe in the river once in awhile.

    But the final and most unifying point to make is that it's all fine and dandy as long as you don't have to work with either one.

  5. Re:How many years has it been? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But the final and most unifying point to make is that it's all fine and dandy as long as you don't have to work with either one.

    You are a wise man

    NEVER!! NEVER!! Use the company bathroom within 4 hours of an Indian using it. The showers at Auschwitz probably smelled better

  6. Ignorance is bliss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Indians who read this on slashdot might feeling proud as of now, as per they(old men gathered) proverb, sitting under a Mango tree in a small village - In business if somebody speaks against you, then believe that you are really progressing at good rate...

  7. Re:How many years has it been? by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you think that's bad, try using a toilet after a muslim's been in it. As the qu'ran expressly forbids them from wiping their ass, they clean the shit off with a cup of water.

    As the core tenet of islam is to not clean up their own shit and blame everyone else for it, expect brown puddles everywhere.

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