[clug] Education options

Edgecombe, Scott Scott.Edgecombe at AirservicesAustralia.com
Thu Jan 22 05:27:42 GMT 2004


I am currently working with 2 Indian guys and I have worked with 3
others on a previous project. They were/are all very qualified and very
capable. They are no more or less expensive than Australians when
employed here.

IMHO outsourcing is moving the sweatshop side of the IT business
offshore. I wouldn't want to be working in some of these jobs. There are
far more interesting things to work on. Remember when everything cheap
and nasty was made in China or Taiwan but the cool new things were still
manufactured locally. It is now the same for IT.

Cheers

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: James Macnicol [mailto:jamesm at ee.adfa.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:22 PM
To: linux at samba.org
Subject: Re: [clug] Education options


>>By this stage, you're at least qualified enough to replace an Indian 
>>programmer, but apparently IBM GSA and Telstra don't understand that.
>>    
>>
>
>Depends who you ask.  A lot of people are being told to "hold tight"
and
>expect to have a big job shortly, because cleaning up after India is
>going to take a lot of work.
>  
>
    Told by whom?  Of course the geeks are telling themselves the whole 
outsourcing thing will go away and that Indian programmers are useless 
but this is just wishful thinking.  This is all hypocrisy anyway, did we

all cry about all those manufacturing jobs that were lost before?  Of 
course not.



James




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