[CompProgrammer]

We are very short-handed at work. One of my friends (a super-smart guy) is working, but looking for something else. He would be a godsend to our business. I asked my boss if we could hire him and he replied, "Would he work for $5,900 per year?". He says that's what our company (an American icon) is paying people in India. I believe that the true figure is higher than that, but if we do not do something (think TARIFF), then all the jobs will go overseas. I was thinking later that my teenage daughter, working part-time, made $7,500 last year. We may all have to join her.

[oceanview]

what your boss doesn't realize, unless he is above the ceiling of the "protected" management class within the company, eventually those Indian "grunt" programmers will be able to do his job, and at that point, he's gone too.

[dennisw]

sucks ...... you are on the frontline of the offshoring jihad