Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com)

ErichTheRed writes: A company called Cengage Learning now joins the Toys 'R Us, Disney and Southern California Edison IT offshoring club. Apparently, even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users. As a final insult, the article describes a pretty humiliating termination process was used. Is it time to think about a professional organization before IT goes the way of manufacturing?

Comments

Traitors

[Anonymous Coward]

Any "American" company or individual that gives away American jobs to foreign countries are traitors to the USA and should be publicly murdered.

Re:The Invisible Hand

[lgw]

Society thrives when wealth is well distributed. "Free markets" are a race to the bottom in slow motion. Eventually everyone who is not rich will be sleeping on dirt floors. You better believe that they are going to be really pissed off about it.

I, I see, redistribution is all well and good when it's someone else's wealth being redistributed, but when your job might go to someone poorer and more in need, well then that's a moral panic!

If you have a full-time job in the US chances are high you're a "world 1%er". All this outsourcing is very much the wealth of the 1% being redistributed to those in need - just at the whole-world scale. You don't actually have the moral high ground here, just so you know.