Comments on: US Anti-Outsourcing Movement Doomed

By: TheBlandAnarchist

TheBlandAnarchist — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:07:47 +0000

Outsourcing is not just “US versus the world”. It’s affecting Canada and Europe. Everybody talking either as an American or as an Indian. blah blah blah.

Hey people… guess what?? There’s a whole big world out there that global corporations are screwing left, right and center! INCLUDING *INDIANS*. You’re being paid peanuts. You are slaves. You need to know that and understand that. You have money for food on the table now but with the way corporations are getting global and hyper-big, we soon won’t have rights as average human beings.

By: Unhappy

Unhappy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:24:14 +0000

Outsourcing is offensive to Americans who buy what they assume are American products from American companies–until they have a problem with the product or billing, etc. and end up talking to someone in India who barely speaks English. I lived in Austin when Dell began to lay off thousands of employees as it outsourced more and more if its product manufacturing and customer service. Do you want to know why unemployment in this country is over 4%–call customer service for Dell or RealPlayer and ask someone in India who has a job that used to belong to American and is now being paid a quarter of the salary that the ompany would pay an American? With every occurrence of outsourcing I find–I have found another company I will refuse to do business with in the future. Outsourcing needs to be against the law!

By: growup

growup — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:43:49 +0000

The reality is that most of the world, with a few exceptions, is grabbing aggressively what US had and took for granted.

By: Brian Calla

Brian Calla — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:08:16 +0000

One other thing.. The solution to this is get higher skills. Sorry they already take those jobs too. They have high skiller works and tell them to train your replacement. Some don’t even come in with basic knowledge and only ran stuff in a test lab and took some tests. That has nothing to do with experience. I am fed up with this. I feel you have one choice just as the auto workers did. Find a new field because IT is dead. Its either docotor lawyer, plumber, roofer or fries at macdonalds. Service jobs!!! Service jobs!!!There is no global econonmy the united states is the econonmy that drives the world not the other way around. We buy everything!! We should have so many jobs and so many different kind of jobs in service and manufacturing. But instead we a slaves to walmarts, Lowes, burger kings and service jobs. Kids in schools need options broad this is america of freedom and choices. Sending high paying skilled jobs to India is crazy and doesn’t give bright futures to anyone living in the US.

By: Brian Calla

Brian Calla — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:50:02 +0000

I have read all these comments. The reason jobs go to india is because its cheap. It has nothing to do brain-power its all about cost saving to the stock holders and CEO politics. Example J&J is sending 140 jobs to india trust me your Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo wont go down in price. They send jobs to India because they can. It’s dirt cheap!!! I am all for open market but american workers can’t work for peanuts to keep up with third world wages.

So what it comes down to is a person in the company shows them numbers and how many millions they save. The stock holders love it. All the while giving the greedy bastards “more money” who have no social or moral responsiblity to the people working in this country. Meanwhile Americans who have worked hard and gone to school get screwed and have a hardtime supporting their families. Not only that to get train your replacement before they cut you how nice!!! If india wants to have jobs they need to create a ecnomony of there own.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:13:43 +0000

[quote]In the same note I would like to thank the rest(allmost 70%) who appreciate our job.[/quote]
What 70% of people that support you? You guys think you are being offered a great salary when your u.s. colleagues are being payed 10 times more to do the same job and have a lot more money to survive on. I’ve seen some of the things that happen in India that happen in this craze. E.g. Locking up kids in factories to make money out of them. Offering them only $1 a day that barely gives them enough money to survive off of. Your lives Ashish are being wasted away. You need to think more constructivly to build your economy you are trying to sit in a cradle and piggy back off of big western corporations that only want to rip you off for your skills. As Joe user said. We are not mad at you. We are mad at the companies that want to save that extra money by outsourcing.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:58:40 +0000

“Outsourcing” is ridiculous. If you can’t afford to run a business with fair wages you shouldn’t be allowed to run that business.

By: Joe User

Joe User — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:46:45 +0000

Ashish, First of all, IQ has nothing to do with education. There are plenty of 14 year old americans with higher IQ’s then a 35 year old Indian.
Second, when a worker in India gets laid off, what compensation do they get? Do you think Americans get 1/10 of that? Not even.
Thirdly, you would forget your credit card password too, if you haven’t had a day off of work in 5 years, and worked every holiday.
Fourthly, you will be whining too when your job gets outsourced to the Phillipines.
And finally, we are not mad at you, we are mad at the companies that want to save that extra money by outsourcing. It’s all about the money and how much they can save. Nothing about how hard a worker you are. Look up the word “outsourcing”. It means to cut costs.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:35:56 +0000

Lot is said about outsourcing of jobs from US(&UK) to mainly India and other countries. They think their jobs are coming to us we are srealing their jobs,We don’t worth it blah,blah,@@and and the Americans don’t make any efforts to hide their feelings and express them in choicest of words (We all know !!! what they are!!)
I have been working with one of the most reknowned BPO’s in India for more than an year and I would like to share my views on it and if possible to pass the message to them. Everyday we receive approx. 80-90 calls from US outof that 7-10 callers have problems just because his/her call is attended by an Indian(or a brownie),they just can’t understand why they are answered by us,and either hang the phone up or ask to transfer them to US.still OK but another 5-7 callers are there who as soon as realize their call is attended by someone in India the tone changes from mild to a harsh,authoratative one as if speaking to a slave and slightest of an chance(non availablitity of a product or service) they cut loose and start abusing us,the country and what not. All I want to tell U guys that we haven’t stole your jobs it’s YOUR INABILITY that the jobs are coming to us or else U guy’s would never had outsourced them to us. It’s not only the cost factor but its our INTELLIGENCE,HARDWORK and sincerity that makes your enterpreneurs to outsource to India becuse we are more resonable then U guys.U people can’t remember the simplest of the information ,be it your credit card info, membership password,your home address and what not!! On top of that You confidently call up saying can;t U pull it up with my last name(as if a decendent of George Bush/Hillary Clinton!!)and when it doesn’t happen U start abusing!!It’s sick.A reasearch has shown that the IQ of an average 35 yers old American is similar to that of an average 14 years old Indian!! Now it’s high time U start appreciating about the credential of a person sitting thousands of kilometers away helping U out to make ur life smoother taking pain to learn about ur culture,country and nuisnses of ur language(not to mention about the tech. skills). Instead of appreciating our credit U guys are sulking.It’s high time U change ur attitude or else next time when U say “Idon’t want to speak to a F******Indian I would say Bloke it’s ur destiny.
In the same note I would like to thank the rest(allmost 70%) who appreciate our job.
THANK YOU

By: this isn't america

this isn't america — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:14:33 +0000

I have lost 5 jobs due to outsourcing to other countries. It may not be so bad if they would quit letting people from other countries come over here as minorities and take what jobs are left. The American can’t find a job these days. All the good jobs go to other countries and what doesn’t leave we bring aliens over here to work. Maybe we do need a war over here, Or atleast a government that will look out for the American people and chase all aliens out and make american companies come back