[GTALUG] Boeing India software engineers

[James Knott]

On 03/13/2019 10:59 AM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
> James Knott wrote
>
> "
>> Several years ago, many companies decided to cut costs by moving help
>> desks etc. to India.  Many have come to regret that decision, due to the
>> poor quality "help".  In another thread, I mentioned how many put cost
>> ahead of value and we get garbage as a result.
> "

My comments are about how we were promised that if we moved into areas
such as IT, we'd be set for life.  The low cost work, such as
manufacturing cheap goods would be done offshore.  Well, it appears more
and more of the good stuff is also moving offshore.  A while ago, I was
reading how recent law grads were having trouble finding positions,
because the work they would have done is now being done in India.  I
also read about how medical lab tests are now also done elsewhere.  It's
getting to the point where the only jobs that aren't leaving are the
ones that can't be moved.  What happens to everyone else?

Incidentally, the trend to move stuff offshore started with U.S. General
Douglas MacArther.  When he was military governor of Japan, after WW2,
he realized that he needed to provide work, to prevent rebellion,
communism, etc..  To do this he promoted Japan as a source of cheap
labour to manufacture stuff for the U.S. and the rest of the world.  One
thing that has continued since then is a lot of the stuff from Asia, or
other low wage areas, is shoddy products.  Just take a look at the
clothes sold in Walmart.  At one time, they boasted that when you bought
from Walmart, you bought from your neighbours, as most of what they sold
was made in the U.S..  Now???

We're currently in the situation where the drive to cut costs is greatly
harming the economy, with more and more unable to properly support
themselves.