Re: The Question: Talking Heads - Offshoring

From: <Christopher>
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 23:17:00 EDT

On Sep 28, 2005, at 4:42 AM, Steve McKenzie wrote:

> I wondered why I don't hear so much mooing these days, but it has been
> replaced with a fair amount of bleating.
>
> Now if only we can encourage the lawyers, accountants and
> manager/bureaucrats to bugger off to the same place that the code
> jockeys have run to, then this end of the world will be a better place
> to live in.

It may be a comfort to note that all the people who were interviewed for the article are marketing VP's or something of that ilk who probably know more about the far side of the moon than they do about engineering. These are the guys who invent phrases like 'Service pack' so they won't have to admit their software is buggy. People at that corporate level get hired only if they ask for more money, not less. Who else would say in one paragraph that IBM is moving 14000 jobs overseas and in the next say it isn't a zero-sum game? Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=lghRJ2lhOB5_k_W9Wj2yHDGEBKuDsGm8YXlDUgvoucK272sb_9qNs8T2gM-p4Hwu6KZK1jpeKli_KQ">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

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<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Wed Sep 28 23:17:00 2005