Jobs to India -- A Broad Look 902
dumpster_dave writes "Wired has an excellent 7 page article on the current and future trend and nature of IT outsourcing from the United States. The conclusion: the smell of inevitability--the economy will survive, though your job, as it is currently, will likely not. Outsourcing is expected to expand from Service and code projects to the creative aspects as well, with obvious correlations experienced in the manufacturing industry during the 70s and 80s. An excellent read that provides good coverage of the perspectives of players on all sides."
Timothy was outsourced to India (Score:5, Funny)
You know it's a dupe when... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe I should karma-whore a little bit and repost some of the highly moderated comments from last time?
Dupetastic! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Holy repost (Score:1, Funny)
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, at leat the Malls will go under... (Score:3, Funny)
And how is this supposed to happen? Those who do not end up on the streets will be training as Fryolator operators working for enough money to pay the rent.
The only good thing I can see out of this is that all the malls will close.
If my job is going away soon... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wow, deja vu!! (Score:2, Funny)
What do you expect?
Re:IT Fads (Score:5, Funny)
...and it will be reposted on
Here is your answer ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Duped article, so I'll dupe my comments (Score:2, Funny)
By then people will have forgotten it's a dupe! Duh!
I just outsourced posting an insightful comment.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's Left? (Score:3, Funny)
Someone did. They modded you insightful :-)
can we just open a Wired subsection... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's Left? (Score:2, Funny)
Suddenly my stupid uncle living in the trailer doesn't seem so stupid. After all, he lives without working at all, while I bust my ass at a keyboard. I thought that I was living on the cutting edge of society. I was one of the first people with a computer in their home. I was sending e-mail when there were only 100,000 people on the Internet. I was using Linux when there were only 100,000 users. Little did I know that my good ol' Uncle Bob in the trailer wasn't a throwback, but that he was the avant garde of society. For the past 30 years, he's been trying to show all of us the way to live, pointing us all towards the future dream of a single-wide trailer and a rusty K-car out front. How did I get it so wrong?
Outsource Everything! (Score:2, Funny)
Then, have corps. ALL OVER THE WORLD pay 40% income tax to the U.S. for the priviledge and pleasure of selling us their goods and services. This tax is then evenly distributed to all Americans. That way, we can just sit on our asses!
Re:Holy crap! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holy crap! (Score:1, Funny)
*I'LL* be a Telecommunications Sanitation Engineer.
Re:Holy crap! (Score:2, Funny)
Eat rice. (Score:3, Funny)
Need protein? Leave some rice out and kill the rats.
I'm only half joking. Ha!
A more appropriate title for this story (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holy crap! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, we'll be telephone sanitizers, middle management, hairdressers....
Forget middle management. With no workers left to manage, who needs a middle manager? From now on, kids coming out of school will have to start at the top. Let's see - how many new CEOs do we need this year?
Re:Timothy was outsourced to India (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Offshoring my own job (Score:3, Funny)
And if he did get caught, you know what they would probably do? Fire all of his co-workers, make him a manager, and get him to hire 5 other Indians.
Brontitol (Score:4, Funny)
Your reference to shoes brings to mind the Shoe Event Horizon from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's planet Brontitol.
"The Shoe Event Horizon is now a firmly established, and rather sad economic phenomenon which, in future times will be taught as part of the basic Middle School Life, the Universe, and Everything syllabus.
TEACHER: Stand up! Harsh Economic Truths, Class 17. You are standing up?
STUDENT: Yes.
T: Good. You are living in an exciting, go-ahead civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Up.
T: What do you see?
S: The open sky, the stars, an infinite horizon.
T: Correct... You are living in a stagnant, declining civilization. Where are you looking?
S: Down.
T: What do you see?
S: My shoes.
T: Correct. What do you do to cheer yourself up?
S: I buy a new pair.
T: Correct! Now, imagine everone does the same thing... everyone buys new shoes, what happens?
S: More shoes.
T: And?
S: More shoe shops.
T: Correct... and in order to support all these extra shoe shops, what happens?
S: Everyone must keep buying shoes.
T: And how is that arranged?
S: Manufacturers dictate more and more different fashions of and make shoes so badly that they either hurt the feet or fall apart.
T: So that?
S: Everyone has to buy more shoes.
T: Until?
S: Until... everyone gets fed-up with lousy, rotten shoes.
T: And then what?
S: Massive capital investment by the manufacturers to try and make people buy the shoes.
T: Which means?
S: More shoe shops.
T: And then we reach what point?
S: The Shoe Event Horizon! The whole economy overbalances. Shoe shops outnumber every other kind of shop. It becomes economically impossible to build anything other than shoe shops.
T: Now, what's the final stage?
S: Um... every shop in the world becomes a shoe shop.
T: Full of?
S: Shoes no one can wear.
T: Result?
S: Famine, collapse, and ruin. Any survivors eventually evolve into birds and never put their feet on the ground again.
T: Excellent! End of lesson."
One sector that won't be outsourced to India (Score:2, Funny)
The beef industry. It's what's for dinner.
'nuff said.