Post #130,828
12/15/03 12:58:27 PM
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IBM to move 4,700 high-paying jobs overseas
IBM Corp. plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries, which could amount to one of the biggest such actions yet in the technology industry.
IBM documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal said about 4,700 programming jobs could be shifted overseas to save costs, a growing high-tech industry trend known as "offshoring."
More than 900 people are already scheduled to be told of the move in the first half of 2004, while another 3,700 jobs have been identified as having the "potential to move offshore," the Journal said. IBM already has hired 500 engineers in India to take on some of the work that will be moved, the Journal reported.
[link|http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2297793|source] lincoln
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Post #130,835
12/15/03 1:26:16 PM
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So anyone here ready to move to Bombay for a highpaying gig?
We in the industry have taken cross country moves in stride and in the case of a few cross Atlantic moves for a gig. So if the cost of living was equal, that a low paying job there could buy the goodies that a high paying job here would, who would move?
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bill
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Post #130,839
12/15/03 1:43:52 PM
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A lot of people can't.
One thing holding them down:
Student loans.
I have a blue sign on my door. It says "If this sign is red, you're moving too fast."
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Post #130,849
12/15/03 2:16:50 PM
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Cost of living maybe...
But the quality of living in India sucks, according to people here who used to live there.
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-scott anderson
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Post #130,858
12/15/03 2:59:41 PM
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tell the wife she gets a maid, a babysitter
and you get them too :-)
Depends on your definition of quality. Buy your own grub, beat the servants weekly and stay away from the native women. Drink lots of T&T to ward off the malaria and you'll be fine.
thanks,
Bill
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Post #130,860
12/15/03 3:01:45 PM
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There's also...
the crowding, the arsenic in the wells, the thuggery, the corruption, the husband stealing, the dowry killings, etc...
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Post #130,922
12/15/03 9:12:24 PM
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not in the pukka sahib enclaves
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Post #132,083
12/23/03 7:46:29 PM
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Sure, sign me up
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