powerhog
Stinkin' up the joint
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join:2000-12-14
Owasso, OK | money
I think it has less to do with being able to find intelligent Americans and more to do with finding intelligent Americans who are willing to work for $1/day. |
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burgermeister
All Computers Are Junk
join:2000-10-23
Utica, MI
| said by powerhog  :I think it has less to do with being able to find intelligent Americans and more to do with finding intelligent Americans who are willing to work for $1/day. This is the correct answer. 
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mlundin
join:2001-03-27
Lawrence, KS
 ·Sunflower Broadband
·Comcast
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Too bad that $1/day gets them a bunch of crap. There's something to be said for buying the right tool for the job, and buying a bunch of $1/day tools out of India isn't doing a very good job. I would rather speak to a barely literate American to help me with my support problems than a completely unintelligible Indian half a world away. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
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I wonder if they plan to use some of the new presidents money that is earmarked as a tax deduction for 'new jobs' to do this.
I could see many companies (already) doing layoffs so that they can get tax deductions to hire them back.
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
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said by burgermeister :said by powerhog :I think it has less to do with being able to find intelligent Americans and more to do with finding intelligent Americans who are willing to work for $1/day. This is the correct answer. This particular economic situation is serendipity for business due to middle class economic correction. I replied to another poster blaming teachers for the problem, and it reminded me of a phone call with a CC company phone rep not long ago trying to sell me services when I called to activate a new CC. This person was a teacher who could not find work in Missouri due to downsizing and consolidating school districts. She has a graduate degree in education, but was a new hire and therefore one of the first to go.
Long to short, she was glad to have a job; so many of her friends were not so fortunate. Grad students handling phones for $8 to $10 - the American dream, no?
I'd advise people to become at least acquainted with economic shock and flattening the middle class standard of living around the globe. Conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But I don't believe every unfortunate incident is an accident, either. Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine," would be a very good start.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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said by en102 :I wonder if they plan to use some of the new presidents money that is earmarked as a tax deduction for 'new jobs' to do this. I could see many companies (already) doing layoffs so that they can get tax deductions to hire them back. So could I, however, that died a long time ago and was scrapped.
To be honest, I think they are moving jobs back due to the weakening dollar. Its becoming more expensive to buy outside this country than it is to use that $1 bill that's worth about $0.50 cents here. |
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Old_Grouch
Don't just sit there silly DO something
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join:2004-05-26
Greenwood, IN
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| They are moving jobs back because public irritation with the "quality" of support they got from off-shore agents and a union demand to bring the work back during the last contract negotiation provided them a two-fer.
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chronoss2009
join:2008-09-23 | reply to powerhog
Re: bet they went to labor ready and got mexicans
Then after getting the mexicans they will claim later they are IN AMERICA..... |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20 | reply to Old_Grouch
Re: money
Do you really think that public irritation had ANYTHING to do with this...? ...at all? |
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detth
Onemhz On Aim
join:2000-10-06
Astoria, NY | reply to powerhog
ha! if it werent for those scumbags outsourcing jobs, many indians would have not even HEARD of a telephone. |
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