molly.com
Tuesday 17 February 2004
onshore insourcing?
Well, that’s what some techies in India are referring to what we in the United States call “offshore outsourcing.”
Either one affecting you?
Filed under: policies
Posted by: site admin | 12:10 | Comments (8)
Since 1998 when they first discovered my huge brain tumor and syringomyelia of the whole cord , I have been in and out of touch with an Software Specialist in New Dehli, that has syringomyelia. Over the years he has commented that the small village from which he comes to work is deserted now most of the time as the people are now either working for USA companies in Telecommunications, software development, or in customer service even= he told me that the next time someone here speaks to Dan or Eric and thinks it is someone in Nebraska, or Redmond, Wash, it could well be Rama or Krishna, or Premistra somewhere in the subcontinent. erie and i am not speaking of Pennsylvania. if i spelled that right, ha. i am loosing my cognitive hard drive. oops.
Yup, I lost my information architecture job of four years (along with 2,000 others) at GM because EDS decided to send the company secrets to India last March. Since then, the few remaining IT workers have told me constant horror stories about Indian workers quitting over having to work midnights to accomodate our timezone, selling designs to China (they’ve seen several knockoff cars appear mysteriously), and poor quality on the tech lines (mainly a language issue).
But I’m not bitter. ;^)
It’s the joys of ‘globalisation’. We in the West have a god-given right to spend $150 on N**e shoes that are made by vietnamese kids for a dollar a day in a free-trade zone, where that countries’ already-lax employement and health and safety legislation is suspended. We have an inalienable right to drink cheap coffee that is picked by columbian children who spend all day covered in pesticide. We have these rights because of “free trade” and unfettered capitalism – exactly the same unfettered capitalism that lays off Western workers and employs Indians at 10% of the cost.
The Indian graduates are offered these jobs by American companies. Who can blame them for accepting a good job? You don’t like the American companies who outsource? Don’t buy their products, and let them know why you’re not buying them. You want the cheap clothes, cheap food and cheap computers, you gotta take the other.
not directly, but my CEO uses it as a constant threat….
“If you don’t behave, we’re sending all of your jobs to india.”
He’s uh. not the most mature boss in the world.
Heh, the headline story today on the Detroit Free Press: “GM has cut one-third of contract workers:
Staff on edge as some jobs move to India”
http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/gm19_20040219.htm
I believe I am being affected it by it also. I am trying a contract website at the moment and just looking at the folios of the Indian designers, they are huge and I would guess getting most of the jobs. Infact I could count the contract jobs on one finger that I have had in the last 6 months hehe.
LOL I actually read a post somewhere recently by an Indian man who is now living in Sydney Australia. He was being affected in his job because all his work was being taken by Indians in India. The main problem ofcourse as he pointed out was the cost of living there was so small and the amounts they charged were princely sums in India.
Ofcourse you cannot blame the Indian people for this. They are simply doing what anyone else would do.
Perhaps we should all start ‘Offshore outbuying’ imported Indian products instead of home made products!
Stay Safe!
Bruce