| Yes, you CAN polish a turd This article is total BS -- when you follow the links, you find the situation IS just as bleak as everyone thinks:
Software engineers have been particularly hard hit. Researchers at Global Insight Inc., which prepared the report for the ITAA, predicted that demand for U.S. software engineers would shrink through 2008.
Mr. Miller and the ITAA are putting a happy-face spin on it, that's all.
Yeah, the jobs which stay will be in positions involving direct interaction with the customer -- which means face to face, not phone. Which means sales guys who know how to schmooze and glad-hand and all the rest are safe. So, of course, are the managers who will be managing the sales guys and the outsourced engineering teams. People with technical skill but not schmoozing and managing skill with be out in the cold. Situation normal, AFU.
The next step is for the Indians and Chinese to take what they've learned working for foreign (to them) firms, ditch their foreign bosses, and go into business for themselves. Then the managers will be out of work too. Probably not the salesguys, though; somehow they always come out on top. |
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| The suits seem pretty determined to offshore ALL jobs that don't involve stoop labor or in in person body servitude.
What Bush and his suits are trying to create is a nation of wealthy suits and their dirt poor body servants. |
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MotoVTVonage User Since Jan 2004
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Butler, PA | Perhaps......I call it a two tiered society.
Remember the lords and serfs of feudal europe? We're heading in that direction. |
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 atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
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College Station, TX | I totally agree. That is what I have been saying. Republicans are not good for the economy. They view people as either RICH or POOR.
Open your wallet, look inside, then decide which one you are. |
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Butler, PA | I'd like to know of a study that shows how many jobs are created here, stateside, as a result of increasing shareholder value.
Anybody know of one?
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atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
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College Station, TX | I never said jobs are created by increasing shareholder value. I said if they cut jobs, they save money, thus increasing shareholder value. They move these jobs overseas, and a person in the US, that makes 8 bucks an hour to answer the phone (in reference to call center jobs), over in India, you can hire 5-8 people for the money you are paying people here in the U.S. |
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MotoVTVonage User Since Jan 2004
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Butler, PA | And that benefits us how.....................?
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Part time Vonage Phone man. |
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