Re:Something Fun for Mr. Pet and the Outsourced Techs
Nice Geeky site. Cool geek gear.
A few of you may be clueing into the fact that outsourcing bugs me…. so it was a relief to find something that touched on the lighter side of the subject.
Although, I think the whole thing is due to come to a crashing halt here soon.
When they were just outsourcing the working slobs in the factory, no one cared…. If we shut down all the factories, the air quality will improve (true and much cheaper than those pesky pollution control devices) and Walmarts will be able to get cheaper goods.
When they out sourced the call centers no one cared…. The people working there are marginal and they really don’t count do they?
Now, when they started cutting into your midlevel clerks…. people started to fuss a bit. But they were told, go back to school and re-train. They are doing so, but they are screaming every step of the way.
Now, we have your high dollar people being affected… Engineers, Doctors, Lead Programmers and the like. You know, the people the clerkly ones were suppose to train to be. Anyhow, these high dollar talent are not people who take beng shuttled aside lightly. They are starting to growl, and not being entirely stupid they are forming coalitions with the other groups.
When programmers approach labor unions, I think either a bright new day or Armageddon is approaching. What do you think? 😀