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Outsourcing Unit To Be Set Up In Indian Jail
littlekorea writes "Indian outsourcing firm Radiant Info Systems has found yet another way to lower wages — hiring data entry clerks from a local prison. Some 200 inmates will be paid $2.20 a day to handle manual data entry tasks for Radiant's BPO deals in a pilot for the scheme. Radiant execs told the BBC that the deal will provide skills to inmates when they are released from prison. No doubt they would also be due for a pay raise." They're going to need to cut wages if they want to be competitive with the 100,000 US prisoners who work for 25 cents an hour.
Your data will be VERY safe when you hand it to those prisoners...
$.25 an hour x 8 hours a day=$2 a day ... Seems fairly competitive to me...
I wonder if they can get "fired" for screwing up their data entry, or if they just get moved from the "entering banking data" group to the "entering climate change data" group?
Well, wouldn't that just make it really easy to boost staffing levels?
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Let's see $2.20 a day * 260 days a year (although I doubt they give them too many days off)
= $572 bucks a year
Let's plug it in The Global Rich list....
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
= 4,429,714,286
You are the 4,429,714,286 richest person in the world!
You're in the TOP 73.82% richest people in the world!
Raj: Hi, this is Raj. Thank you for calling Bank of Regret. How may I help you? ...
Customer: I see some irregular activity on my account and I'd like to talk to someone about it.
Raj: I apologize for the inconvenience. Am I correct to understand that you would like to talk to someone about the irregular activity on your account?
Customer: Um, yes. Yes I would. That's what I said.
Raj: Am I correct to understand that that is what you said?
Customer: Yes! Just get someone who can explain these large wire transfers!
Raj (hand over the receiver): Who handles large wire transfers?
Dani: I do!
Raj: One moment please. I'll transfer you to Dani. He handles large wire transfers
*Sigh*
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Nice use of my MCSE, no?
Perhaps they had sufficient skill and experience on-staff to handle any Solitaire and Minesweeper issues that came up.
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Wait a minute. My cubicle feels like a cell. My wardrobe is defined by Corporate Goons. At the whim of a bureaucrat, I can be sent, against my will, anywhere in the country. Many time's, I've been awakened in the middle of the night by alarms and screaming. (Usually, the voices are saying things like, "The servers are down!" or "My Email is gone!") Have I been in prison all along? That would explain some of the meetings... Well, no more! There's no cage that can hold me! I'm bustin' outta here. Here's the plan. Just after the morning scrum meeting, you throw a paper airplane to distract the guard. I'll slip under the raised floor. I've got a plastic spoon from the break room, so I'll dig a tunnel. If we do this every day for the next 40 - 50 years, we'll make it out!
After exhaustive research and excrutiating analysis, I've determined that Bubba is, in fact, everywhere.
The right to conjugal visits only guarantees you that your partner can visit for that purpose, it doesn't actually guarantee you a partner...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
None of those? Well, that just leaves...hmm...let me think...oh God...
You're the guy who greenlighted all those Wayans Brothers movies.
You son of a bitch. They should have thrown away the key.
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