Re: The Question: Talking Heads - Offshoring

Christopher Wright wrote:

> 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?

Chris, you're forgetting all the service sector opportunities that are open to these laid-off people.

The only other two listmembers that have responded to this topic do work as smaller engineering contractors. I don't think they would be affected by something like this, so it's easy to pooh-pooh concerns about large-scale industry trends.

Then again, that's probably the way to go in the future for western workers as those accustomed to working on mid to large size projects get squeezed to death while worldwide hourly rates/cost of living balance out. That ain't gonna happen in the next 20 years.

Paul Received on Wed Sep 28 23:58:00 2005