Companies are already moving employees overseas

personal interaction | July 9, 2009 | barefoot prince

[bareford101]

Since obama took over and the whirlwind of pushing and shoving and lies started pouring from D.C., one tends to forget a "crisis" because another "crisis" takes it's place. At least that is what I have found happening to me, and I do think it is very intentional.... olenski's radical instructions gives the map.

Here in Texas metro area, we have not seen severe drops in employment which is occurring in several other states. However, I keep running into various people, in the grocery store, or simple business transactions who tell me that THEY ARE BEING SENT OVERSEAS by their companies to work. We have a major Motorola and Dell offices here plus a lot of lucrative industries outside of the computer field.....

The point is, that these figures won't show up at "unemployed", and actually won't show up anywhere for many, many months. But we are LOSING these people and the jobs they do will now be out of the American control.

This loss of American jobs is what is quietly happening.. We knew it would, but I had forgotten the potential significance it would have on the tax base of this Country....

Major employers got smart quickly when they saw what obamanation was doing...and they no longer just "talk about" sending their employees to other countries to work, they just DO IT.

IMO the statistics on unemployment don't mean much, once the unemployment benefits run out, those people just disappear from the statistics. But these job relocations are really going to matter big time. I hope, in time to get obamanation's crowd sacked.

[Wolfie]

Wow, that never happened before. Duh.

[bareford101]

that has never happened before in my life where I am constantly hearing about reloation overseas....

The Duh was lame.

[DonaldC]

So businesses are fleeing a country going socialistic, most likely to other countries already further down the socialistic road than us?

[NativeNewYorker]

Thanks for this info. I know many people-of-means who are looking to get their families and their capital out of Obamaland.

[bareford101]

yep... I doubt if employees are being sent for their personal/monetary benefit, but for the bottom line of the employers and to keep from losing their jobs!

[STONEWALLS]

...when my former employer put up a factory in China, it was hard to get our engineers to transfer over there...biggest opposition was from the wives who worried: where will our kids go to school? what about their medical/dental care? how will they get to see their grandparents? ect ect...at the end of the day, it’s often the wives who say whether a guy takes an overseas assignment.

[bareford101]

We’ve been thinking along those same lines.....

[bareford101]

Well, if it means losing your job if you don't go, and your income.. the wife might look at things a little bit differently.

the guy I talked with yesterday was excited about it... he was mid thirties and married... but every family is different.

I think the lack of jobs here are going to be the determinant, but that is just my opinion.

[Vigilanteman]

I loved working in Japan (mostly) for 14 years. The best part of it was that the IRS saw nary a penny of my taxes during that time.

My kids came home during Junior High and High School. They were in about the 60th percentile on most of the standardized tests in Japan and were suddenly in the 90th percentile here in one of the better school districts in Pennsylvania. Now that they are grown and gone, I would welcome the opportunity to go overseas again.

[bgill]

Dell is downsizing. They had a huge cut back in the fall and another around Christmas. Things seem to be leveling off and employees haven’t been getting scary inter-office memos. Actually, some of Dell’s workers who used to travel over seas are now being kept in their Austin offices.

[madinmadtown]

As with many other things, the MSM seems completely oblivious to this trend. Many US workers are going to other countries to find employment. Skilled US workers. Well-educated US workers. We have a government that is out of control and a press that is worse than worthless because it does more harm than good.

[listenhillary]

Russia was recently warning the USA about the dangers of socialism. Russia now has a flat tax as does many of their former states. Ireland cut their corporate tax in half. Do I wan’t to live in any of these places? Nope...

Some countries are swimming against the socialism stream, we’re tromping on the accelerator.

[ASOC]

Just as hard for Alaska - after all, China has both cable and Internet connectivity.

[max americana]

I know where exactly in the Philippines the Dell Call centers are located. I have a Fil sis-in-law who knows someone who works there and there’s more than 200 of them.

I’m currently looking for a laptop from Dell and on my first call, the call was routed to India. But today’s 2nd quote from Dell was in the U.S.. in Texas.

[chrisser]

So businesses are fleeing a country going socialistic, most likely to other countries already further down the socialistic road than us?

I can't speak for all businesspeople, but the bane of business is uncertainty.

No one knows where things are going to go here, and the hubris of the Administration and Democrats in Congress means that worse case scenarios must be considered.

Other countries, while they may be more socialistic than the U.S. is now, and maybe always will be so, are generally at least expected to be stable over the next few years. Who knows where we will be even this time next year?

It would seem a wise investment to move some of your staff to countries that are friendly, if a bit more socialistic, so that if the SHTF here, you can push your operations over to one of those countries and wait out the storm.

[Jagman]

I don’t think you save much money by sending Americans overseas...

[bareford101]

The men in DC don’t seem to have chests anymore (C.S. Lewis)

[bareford101]

that’s interesting... always neat to hear the words from someone who is first hand..

[bareford101]

That was a great reply. you are a lot more knowledgable in this than I am. One of the great things about posting on FP is I can find some information from sane people.... thank you