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IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India
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| Feb. 2, 2009
| Paul McDougall
Posted on 02/03/2009 9:21:51 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
It sounds like they are sending workers back home.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:24:28 AM PST
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: COUNTrecount
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:24:38 AM PST
by
Allegra
( Congratulations, Free Iraq!)
To: COUNTrecount
Scrappleface must have a new URL...
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:26:26 AM PST
by
ClaudiusI
To: COUNTrecount
Oh, yeah thats gonna work...not! People in India are already complaining that when they call for computer support they get some person in England or the States.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:26:44 AM PST
by
Leg Olam
(I have a dream that one day, chickens can cross roads without having their motives questioned)
To: COUNTrecount
“A lot of people want to work in India.”
Yeah, until they get homesick for an American style toilet.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:27:43 AM PST
by
pappyone
(New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
To: COUNTrecount
Does anybody here recall that when people were laid off from IT jobs in India that the expelled workers killed their boss?
Indians will kill Americans who go there to take their jobs. Quite unlike the gentle treatment the Indians received from well mannered Americans.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:29:13 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: Allegra
Nigeria? I’m not sure about that one.
If these large corporations continue to send jobs overseas, then their goods should be hit with very high tariffs... to bad WTO, we don’t want to send everything we have to foreigners.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:30:00 AM PST
by
smallbiz
(Democrat Party = Alexander Tyler Party)
To: COUNTrecount
“IBM has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of January, according to an employee group.”
Some perspective — 4000 IBM workers amounts to about 1% of the workforce of close to 400,000 people.
I believe that HP has announced that they are laying off 10% of their people, and Novell recently announced that 25% were to be cut.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:30:54 AM PST
by
WL-law
To: COUNTrecount
The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.Ah yes...always a fly in the ointment
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:32:57 AM PST
by
xp38
To: smallbiz
Nigeria? Im not sure about that one. I'm pretty sure about it. It's on my "NO WAY" list. ;-)
I was actually offered a three-month procurement gig there in '03.
Didn't take it.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:35:37 AM PST
by
Allegra
( Congratulations, Free Iraq!)
To: smallbiz
"If these large corporations continue to send jobs overseas, then their goods should be hit with very high tariffs"
and just why are these corporations sending their jobs oversea's? Could it be the outrageous taxes and regulations they have to pay and follow? You sound just like my flaming lib union member neighbor. Are you a troll?
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:35:48 AM PST
by
joe fonebone
(The libtard votes in every election, regardless of the candidate.)
To: COUNTrecount
Do the bars have “happy hours” there? And how are the beaches?
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:37:44 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Welcome to Detroit, the Renaissance city......)
To: xp38
Be the first kid on your block to move to a turd-world country and work for $hit wages.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:38:54 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: Beagle8U
There indeed are plenty of opportunties in India for both returning Indians and foreigners. The pay for engineers and professionals has increased a lot. IBM would not be the first company to lure back Indian’s to India. Working for a US company in India is a lot more favorable since they tend to be better and more fairly managed.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:43:43 AM PST
by
Oldexpat
(Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
To: Oldexpat
BTW. IBM in India mainly services Indian companies, Asian companies and European companies..not much US companies.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:45:01 AM PST
by
Oldexpat
(Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
To: COUNTrecount
To: COUNTrecount
If I was a single, White American guy, I’d take the offer to relocate in Brazil. In a heartbeat.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:50:30 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All the oil's in Texas...but all the dipsticks are in Washington, DC.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Just don’t get kidnapped.
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posted on
02/03/2009 9:52:31 AM PST
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: COUNTrecount
Don't worry IBM. Given the business climate, IBM will be replaced by India's Business Machines and all it's worker will be Hindus, including the management.
I'm sure they will work for less than their American corporate executives couterparts....
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