22nd February 2004, 4:37 PM
alien space marine Wrote:Say that too the thousands of americans who got pink slips handed to them while their jobs got sent out to other countries.
Say what to them? You should have gotten an education?
Quote: It isnt just manufactoring that are going so are adminstrative jobs like call centres and tech jobs.For example my brothers job at hewlet packard would have most definently be shiped to india if it waisnt for the fact HP needed french technicians for quebec and the rest of canada, His centre use to do support for new england and new york united states.His Technical support centre got sliced in half and atleast 500 workers were let go,What Hp did was open a new large technical centre in India and shut down all the centres that were in the U.S and let India cover the U.S.A. Isnt that disturbing?Since Hp isnt alone all those hardware and software repair centres are being exported else where by everyone else.
manufactoring jobs have given people employment in the U.S for a very long time like the Ford assembly yard years, When all of it is gone what will be left to replace them? Mcdonalds?
Not everyone can be lawyers or docters and working at Walmart as you should know isnt enough to raise a family or get well off.
I know this. But manufacturing jobs are really not much better than retail, and usually are far more dangerous to boot. Plus, we live in the Information Age. Non-manual jobs are more plentiful than ever before, and getting a college education is easier now than it has never been.
As I said, there really isn't a good solution for this problem. But it's not unique. Why should companies stay in a situation where they pay more money and recieve less profit when there are more lucrative opportunities? Wouldn't YOU outsource if it meant saving oodles of money on expenses and payroll? Answer that with your business sense and not your heart.
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