It is IDIOTIC to export jobs

Post #85,865 by deSitter 3/5/03 7:49:32 PM Reply	It is IDIOTIC to export jobs 1) The more well-employed people are around, the larger the tax base. 2) The larger the tax base, the more likely we operate with a surplus. 3) With a surplus, business can make reasonable bets on future productivity and hire even more people, further increasing the tax base. Done right, the theory of paying help well and sticking with them leads to a stable situation with low crime, clean neighborhoods, and a populace with pride in itself. A place the rich can be proud to live in. Throwing away people is just utterly destructive of a cohesive society. -drl
Post #85,882 by Silverlock 3/5/03 8:35:48 PM Reply	Maximizing shareholder value. That's the only thing that counts. Short sighted or not, if a company can cut expenses, they will. The idea of future profitability is forgotten. What counts is the share price over the next 6 months. How many lives per gallon? --Sign outside of various churches
Post #85,928 by gdaustin 3/5/03 11:20:10 PM Reply	Six months? What kind of dream world 'you livin' in boy? Try six weeks, try 1 quarter. Some of the things I work on have to be coded and done in HOURS! (ie. 12 hours or less, like "finish this before you leave today" )
Post #86,007 by orion 3/6/03 10:05:09 AM Reply	Good enough get it done in 12 hours before you leave today. I don't think I could work in an environment like that, I have a family and they need to see me too. I cannot work 12 hour days and avoid my family for the sake of some PHB who wants things done in hours instead of days. If it takes hours instead of days, expect some major bugs to be in the program. Major major bugs, memory leaks, security holes so big you could drive a truck through them, and slowness. But I suppose if it is good enough to run a report for them to read, it is good enough for them to approve of? [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
Post #85,990 by jb4 3/6/03 9:25:23 AM 3/6/03 9:25:48 AM Reply	Oh, Ross..how Pollyanna-ish can you be?!? Low crime, a well-paid workforce, sufficient tax revenues to fund the pork-barrel...Shit, man, you're speaking sedition here! Wake up and smell the coffee, Ross! Its the 21st century. Unabashed, unfettered Capatalism, that's where it's at today. The tyranny of the quarterly report. Get with it man! Thinking that far out of the box will get you a cell, these days. Expecting the Leaders of American Business\ufffd to consider an alternative approach to conducting said business is...well, er....it's just....Unthinkable. And shame on you for even sugesting that they consider it!!! ;-) jb4 "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook Edited by jb4 March 6, 2003, 09:25:48 AM EST Expand All History
Post #86,009 by orion 3/6/03 10:08:27 AM Reply	This I agree with you on the Mega Corps only look at the bottom line, as in how much money it will save them or cost them. They see exporting jobs to India as cheaper and saving money, but they are not looking at the big picture. If 20,000 IT jobs go to India, that means 20,000 less taxpayers, or 20,000 people that will be paying less in taxes as they have to get a job somewhere else for a much lower pay. Getting an IT job in today's market is hard enough, HR gets 90 to 150 resumes a day for a single IT position and they throw most of them out. [link\|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey\| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]

Welcome to IWETHEY!