On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 07:28:44AM -0400, Carolinux.com wrote: > initiative dubbed "SmartSource," which will involve using offshore > vendors.
SmartSource, RightSource, You'reScrewedSource, KissMiddleClassGoodbyeSource. They should stop with the sugar coating. Just use plain English and announce that outsourcing is necessary to maximize profits as we realign the world's resources with the world's opportunities. I read some "stop whining" economist's article that said the difference between IT jobs and textile jobs is that IT job numbers are growing are growing in the US and that textile job numbers are shrinking. I also read that if we lined up all the economists end-to-end, it would be a good thing. Obviously this economist (Samuelson, in Newsweek) has not had the pleasure of getting a technical degree and devoting a good portion of his life to becoming a useful and efficient technical professional only to discover that you are suddenly not as useful to the economy. If he had, then he would be better tuned in to the effects of losing a job and not being able to find an equivalent replacement. At least then he might make his arguements with a little more insight as to what is happening to the economy. Things are going to change and it's going to be painful as jobs leave high priced places and go to low priced places. Or the pain will be felt by doing more work for less money. I wish more folks would wake up to the fact that IT outsourcing is the second wave of a bigger storm. All service jobs can be outsourced. I can't wait for the neurosurgeons to start whining about job loss to India and China. Of course, they will fire up their PR machines (AMA) to cast doubt on the competency and cleanliness of the offshore medical facilities (it's already happening). And then there will be legislation enacted to put a surcharge on medical travel tickets or maybe there will be a special medical travel permit required to allow you to return to the US. Yeah, I can't wait for that. I'd go under an Indian or Chinese surgeons knife without a second thought if I needed surgery. Too bad technical folks are so organizationally challenged. They couldn't mount a PR campaign if they needed to. Probably because they are so attached to the concepts of "truth" and "logic", the banes of any PR or political campaign. -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
