Outsourcing Archives
October 26, 2005
An email between the CEO of Sentient Infotech Pvt. (Rishi) and an ex-employee (Sanjeev). God help me if I ever have to work with people like this. This CEO is so professional in the way he responds as well. He's ...
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October 21, 2005
The Senate Judiciary committee approved of a Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) plan to sell high tech work visa's and green cards to big businesses. The deal includes going back to 1991 and counting up all ...
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September 19, 2005
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was in New York, failed to mention in his speeches that he's confiscating property in his country. While he called for the UN to be moved and took the time to scold countries, he said ...
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September 15, 2005
(Henderson, Nevada) In five-hour shifts, six picketers toting anti-Wal-Mart signs try to keep cool as they walk back and forth outside a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. They are allowed two 15-minute breaks to run across the street and use the washroom ...
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June 17, 2005
(Marion County, Florida) County Commissioner Randy Harris has proposed sending the worst sex offenders out of the U.S. to Mexico stating that "The American prison system is not a deterrent to these serious crimes." Harris believes a deal could be ...
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May 25, 2005
There is a projected shortage of IT workers in the U.S. in the coming years no doubt in part due to the way companies have been outsourcing so many jobs overseas and cutting off the path of experience that is ...
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April 29, 2005
If you don't want to outsource your jobs to India how about to a ship floating in international waters 3 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, California? A company called SeaCode plans to float a ship in international waters ...
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April 10, 2005
Ahh, the joys of handing your sensitive information to some company outside the United States. I have an idea, lets give Social Security numbers, bank account access and enough information to steal millions of people's identities to a country that ...
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February 10, 2005
Outsourcing continues in the IT field and America will suffer for it. Lack of innovation, selling our secrets to other nations and housing sensitive data in places it shouldn't be are just a few of the detrimental things that will ...
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January 17, 2005
A 35-year-old help desk employee has been sentenced to 14 years for Identity Theft. Philip Cummings stole personal information from more than 30,000 customers and then passed that information onto criminals. Losses to the victims are estimated at $50-$100 million. ...
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October 30, 2004
Entering the frontdoor of the outsourcing market is Pakistan, sneaking in the backdoor is India. Interested-Participant has an excellent post on the challenges facing Pakistan in providing outsourcing. Here's an excerpt: ... although India is recognized as the largest recipient ...
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September 02, 2004
Catherine Mann has a recent article defending the outsourcing of IT jobs. Catherine is from the Institute for International Economics a "private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy" which happens to be funded by ...
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August 12, 2004
Outsourcing, the bane of evil in modern America. I believe in keeping jobs here in America. I'm willing to pay more to know that Americans are working before someone somewhere else is. I also call bullshit on all the globalization ...
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May 05, 2004
"They [foreign companies] send work here, in terms of legal, financial, accounting, high-tech, medical and manufacturing". - Thomas Donohue, President, US Chamber of Commerce Recently I've heard, in several places, that Toyota Motor Corp. created 30,000 US Manufacturing jobs in ...
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March 30, 2004
"There is no difference from an economic standpoint from outsourcing manufacturing jobs, which we have been doing for 20 years, and outsourcing white collar service jobs except college-educated workers whine louder when they lose their jobs," said David Wyss, chief ...
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