Re:I. Can’t. Take. It. Anymore!
I’ve heard most of these comments made by Brits over this side of the pond. I guess it’s a global problem.
I remember speaking at a conference advocating the proliferation of the Internet in the late 90’s. I remember reporting that my doctors surgery had recently laid off two admin staff because they had an ISDN line to India where twice as many Indian peeps worked for a quarter of the wages.
Globalisation… Hmmm, it seems bad at the moment, but isn’t there anything good about it from our point of view? Are we all going to revolt, become luddites, or devolutionists? It seems that the biggest problems are in the places with the biggest spenders. It’s like western companies are shooting themselves in the head! The more they give away jobs abroad, the less peeps have to spend on their products.
Don’t need terrorism anymore, just give ’em a good deal on outsourceing! ‘Bomb them into the stonage!’ Ha! Never gonna happen….. ‘[i][b]Outsource them into the darkage![/b][/i]’ Hmmm…