Legal aspects [was: anybody else see darl on teevee?]

[Keith Antoine]

At 04:43 AM 30/01/2004, you wrote:
>dep wrote:
>
>>why would companies find benefit in sending jobs elsewhere? and no, 
>>"because people will work for less" is not the answer, though *why* 
>>people elsewhere will work for less is part of the answer.
>>
>
>I'd be very interested in knowing your views on this, dep. Even in 
>Singapore, there is talk that our jobs are going to be outsourced to India 
>and China. Personally, I've been seeing certain *kinds* of jobs being 
>outsourced to those countries since 1993, when I was in my first real job. 
>I worked with engineers from Shanghai and Pakistan, among a dozen other 
>places, but I never felt threatened by them. I'm pretty sure that this is 
>being over-played in the US, particularly where the tech sector is 
>concerned. I've heard that certain "early adopters" have had bad 
>experiences with outsourcing and are bringing these jobs back to the States.


Here in Oz we are having the same problem, Telstra our biggest telco has 
let a contract to IBM wwho is outsourcing
to India. The s**t has hit the fan when someone leaked this to the media. I 
am partially, no make that DEAF. I have
had phone calls where the person I speak to has an Indian like accent, or 
even phillipino, where it is broad enough
for me to be intelligable, especially when its a local call within Oz and 
you expect an Aussie to answer. I also had
troble with them at the other end not understanding the rather broad Oz 
accent either. It usually ends up with me
angry and frustrated, so I broaden the accent and use more slang/colloquial 
words than before. No one benefits.


Keith Antoine
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia
PH: 61733002161
Retired Electronics Engineer, Practising Geriatric, Brain in Storage