In response to where does this "media" attitude hail from, I'm not sure what to say. It's everywhere Rob. I'd
Read any news site or CIO/CEO/IT mag rag, and you get these people saying the same thing. I have yet to read an article saying that outsourcing is the pure red kool-aid ploy that it is. Really, what magazine's and net news have you been reading that have stated otherwise?
I recall one journalist on foxnews getting his ass chewed off for weeks because of his "Everyone should consider outsourcing part of business" plan. But it didn't matter. He didn't recant. And he is right in the short term. As in a few years -short term.
But students in the sciences, and now shortly, journalism are going to start dropping like flies because there is no money in it anymore. It pays better to be a plumber now because of the US allowing essentially slave labor to be had from any part of the world.
If you want links to the world of hurt we are in and how cool the media thinks it is, just go through a years worth of www.fuckedcompany.com's news postings. It's real, and it's kicking our asses.
Levi Jeans, IBM, HP, Avery Labels, Best Buy, Walmart, GM, Microsoft(good?) etc.. Sadly the "media" is paid by them. So we get dicked twice. I haven't seen any outsourcing articles on Newsforge though- either pro or con, so I can't guess at your opinion on the matter.
As for the topic, now the journalists are starting to get a taste. Oh well. Too long. Too late. Consider that profession lucky that it was the last to go. They helped to make it that way.
Now if we can just figure out how to buy the products we don't produce with the money we don't make, we'll be doing just nifty. Until then, it's suckville. And we all get a straw.
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Posted by: ThoreauHD on March 26, 2004 10:32 AMRead any news site or CIO/CEO/IT mag rag, and you get these people saying the same thing. I have yet to read an article saying that outsourcing is the pure red kool-aid ploy that it is. Really, what magazine's and net news have you been reading that have stated otherwise?
I recall one journalist on foxnews getting his ass chewed off for weeks because of his "Everyone should consider outsourcing part of business" plan. But it didn't matter. He didn't recant. And he is right in the short term. As in a few years -short term.
But students in the sciences, and now shortly, journalism are going to start dropping like flies because there is no money in it anymore. It pays better to be a plumber now because of the US allowing essentially slave labor to be had from any part of the world.
If you want links to the world of hurt we are in and how cool the media thinks it is, just go through a years worth of www.fuckedcompany.com's news postings. It's real, and it's kicking our asses.
Levi Jeans, IBM, HP, Avery Labels, Best Buy, Walmart, GM, Microsoft(good?) etc.. Sadly the "media" is paid by them. So we get dicked twice. I haven't seen any outsourcing articles on Newsforge though- either pro or con, so I can't guess at your opinion on the matter.
As for the topic, now the journalists are starting to get a taste. Oh well. Too long. Too late. Consider that profession lucky that it was the last to go. They helped to make it that way.
Now if we can just figure out how to buy the products we don't produce with the money we don't make, we'll be doing just nifty. Until then, it's suckville. And we all get a straw.
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