[Cronos]

Automation, cloud-services and increasing SaaS and pay-as-you-sip models will end the integration model of IT services. By 2020 I predict IT programming jobs will be half of what they are today

[HiTech RedNeck]

Rotsa ruck splitting projects up into contextless pieces.

[noiseman]

Maybe this is why I have people in India calling me constantly trying to scam me in every way possible. It's become an epidemic lately - "Microsoft support" calling to help me rid my computer of viruses that they somehow magically detected, some unpronounceable company claiming it can lower the interest rate on my credit card, even though he couldn't tell me which of my cards he was calling about (he told me that was a stupid question and that I was wasting his time, then hung up), and on and on and on.

They've also figured out how to spoof local phone exchanges to make it look like the calls are local. So we outsourced these telecom jobs and now they're using what they learned to commit rampant fraud against Americans. I've gotten to the point where I seriously wonder: Why is it that third worlders and first world minorities seem so highly predisposed to engaging in fraud, violent crime, and even terrorism as a routine way of life?

[9YearLurker]

The article actually refers to over 600,000 jobs lost—though the title says 60,000.

[Snowybear]

Good. Hope they choke on it.

[Does so]

I was watching a tutorial on YouTube yesterday. The hands displayed were those of an Indian; however, his voice had been synthesized by a computer! I thought it funny, and I understood every word...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Being outsourced to Bangladesh?