Outsourcing, products and services often means that you lose control of much of what you are outsourcing to others. I've seen that happen too many times before. Take for example "a widget" made locally here and provided to a company for production of a DVD. If any problems should occur, you know "right now" for correction. Products produced offshore are manufactured and shipped by container, often taking months. When the box with precise parts are opened and inspected, and found to be out of "Spec," that business is affected as they can't ship it to their customer for assembly. Kinda like the box car effect. One bumps another, and another and.... Can you imagine all of the major industries that have gone off shore in the last 25 years?
Second, personal information about Americans that have been stored locally is now being shared with other countries who are handling "customer service" outsourcing. Because of unstable governments and international conflicts this information is often breached without the knowledge of the company doing the outsourcing. Hence, personal information about people in North America have ended up in the wrong hands. Either by accident or by plan. Granted, there are many benefits to outsourcing, but when it comes to National Security, Defense and Personal Consumer Informations, I'm still not comfortable with outsourcing... W In a message dated 6/12/05 6:46:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << to the man not losing his job, it all sounds pretty good. filling jobs by attrition is one thing, but kicking us to the curb to get replaced by cheap labor is tuff to appreciate as the recipient it's like being one of the guys thrown off the airplane so everyone else can complete the journey safely. dave >>
