Everything? Jesus, the hyperbole.Really? Then why does everything one wants to buy come from another country? Just try and buy US made products...
Some people aren't happy unless their world is on fire all the time, I suppose.
Everything? Jesus, the hyperbole.Really? Then why does everything one wants to buy come from another country? Just try and buy US made products...
Everything? Jesus, the hyperbole.
Some people aren't happy unless their world is on fire all the time, I suppose.
What a miserable way to live.I am not happy with this fu**ing world now. But those that are ruining it are happy when folks don't notice.
What a miserable way to live.
Where did you get a copy of my work badge?
Not really. Outsourcing accounts for about 300,000 jobs lost a year.
I really don't understand WFH. When I managed jobs in 5 states, I traveled to five states. When I was adjunct at Navaro College, I did some work at home, but mostly on location.
I DO get that some jobs are better out of the office. At the Torrance Ave Westinghouse office our top salesman was hardly ever in the office. I talked to him at length 3 or 4 times a week, as he was smart enough to consult the shop and contour the contracts for all around profit, not just his commission, and fat commissions they were. Lots of repeat orders too.
Then we got a new manager. He was the moron brother in law to a hot shot in the Corp office. New manager mandated that ALL salesmen had to spend a minimum of two days in the office, answering phones and doing busy work. Our top salesman set another record the next year,...... for Honeywell.
Why would I think that? I live and work in Indianapolis. I never was making a Bay Area salary?Everyone seems to think it will be Bay Area salaries forever while they live like a king in rural Colorado or wherever.
In the 70's I started traveling by motorcycle. I wanted to see America, not the interstate system, so I traveled the old roads. Even back then, a lot of smaller communities looked like they were out of money. The towns where things looked ok had a manufacturing facility. I have also re traveled some of those roads after the plants closed. Places like Crete had the American lock company plant. High schools started buying chinese, they are gone.. In Macomb, they made Thermos bottles. not much else, plant is gone. town is broke. Even bigger cities, Like Harvey, IL, Wyman Gordon closed the foundry that made camshafts for domestic auto, that area of town is rapidly decaying.Outsourcing is just one aspect of it. How many jobs were just never created domestically? NAFTA gave companies a massive incentive to move factories to Mexico. They did. Factories closing do not just cost factory worker jobs because once they lose their job they either move elsewhere to chase work or they have less income to spend at local restaurants and shops. It decimated small town America.
WFH-ers are digging their own graves in the long term. Anything you can do from a computer, someone else somewhere else can do from a computer cheaper. Everyone seems to think it will be Bay Area salaries forever while they live like a king in rural Colorado or wherever. Nope, they'll get replaced by someone who will do the job for $40k because they live in Kansas, and then that person will be replaced by someone who will do the job for $25k because they live in Mumbai.
Making yourself dispensable by a mouse click is a fool's game.
WFH-ers are digging their own graves in the long term. Anything you can do from a computer, someone else somewhere else can do from a computer cheaper. Everyone seems to think it will be Bay Area salaries forever while they live like a king in rural Colorado or wherever. Nope, they'll get replaced by someone who will do the job for $40k because they live in Kansas, and then that person will be replaced by someone who will do the job for $25k because they live in Mumbai.
Making yourself dispensable by a mouse click is a fool's game.
I would love to WFH but that is mostly outside of my skill set. The things that I can do from home, however helpful they may be, do not pay very much.
Like my friend above showed, his profession is really adaptable to it. A friend's wife handles rejected insurance claims for a hospital from home, that seems to work fine. I once dated a Registered Dietician that worked from home about 1/2 the time with a couple of computer terminals and a couple of fax machines. It has to be a pretty small percentage that can do that.
It doesn't have to be outsourced in the "pure" sense of giving it to another company, to affect your job. When I worked in the Auto industry, we quickly realized our real competitors weren't other companies - they were people wearing the same-logo shirt as us, same name on the company badge...but in Mexico. Same company, but they were our "production partners." Our job was to develop and launch business and hand it off to them. Gradually, they got to the point they could develop their own business.Yes and no and like many things, depends on the role. Information Security is something that can't be (or damn well shouldn't be) outsourced. Kinda hard to have the security for your company in someone else's hands, especially in another country.