Study: IT worker unemployment at 'unprecedented' levels

Computer World ^ | SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 | Patrick Thibodeau

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YIKES!!! the time! Gotta go get the kids!!!!!

BBL

[Porterville]

I've said this many times, IT is just a skill to supplement a true profession.

[Servant of the 9]

Swervie, you are not so naïve as to believe the actual unemployment rate has any relationship to the reported rate.

I know you better than that!

I think your vision is skewed by the fact that the United 49 States, excluding California, are not having a recession and have not had one in the last 3 years. All the carnage is in your back yard.
Outside CA, and your industry, the GDP is growing, jobs are growing and the outlook is good.

So9

[FITZ]

We have a big recession here and it's not in California. A lot longer than 3 years too.

[Servant of the 9]

We have a big recession here and it's not in California. A lot longer than 3 years too.

Where is here?
What do you call big?
Was it ever not a recession by your standards, and when?

SO9

[FITZ]

It's one of the top 20 cities and an area fast growing in population. Before the 90's it wasn't in recession. NAFTA really hit hard here.

[ChemistCat]

I let irritation at being misunderstood by one person tempt me into being insufferable. I'm sorry I got snarly and went off in the wrong direction. w1andsodidwe and BabsC understood what I was actually saying. I wasn't criticizing or gloating--I was analyzing, in that first post. However, my subsequent posts were more over-reaction at being provoked, than substance. I am sorry.

I agree that our government has been pursuing policies that cost American jobs. The worst of it is our uncontrolled border policy, which threatens our national security as well as fiscal health as a nation and as individuals.

[TopQuark]

Why is it the goverment's job to take my tax money to foster corporate and foreign welfare?

There is no such thing as "corporate welfare." This is an invention of the leftists, and you should be ashamed of yourself for (i) letting it infiltrate your mind and (ii) promulgatig it on a conservative board.

[TopQuark]

Thanks for the post, Chemist.

But there is nothing to apologize for: your posts are well thought our and civil. If anything, I'd like to thank you.

I too am appalled at the laxity of our borders and the consequent loss of jobs and tax dollars. I cannot find any excuse for Bush not to have shut the borders immediately after Sep 11 (yes, I'll still vote for him, but I find that inexcusable)

Most people nowadays b----ch about something else: that daddy-Bush (government) should protect them from their jobs being outsourced. That has nothing to do with the conserbative view of the economy, and that is were I part company. It appears, however, that you are not in that category, Chemist.

Thanks again for your posts.

[Glenn]

Piss on you as well.

[Revolting cat!]

*groan*

[Glenn]

But there is nothing to apologize for

Of course there isn't. Geez.

[JohnSmithee]

"It's a source of considerable pride, as long as there is another job to move TO..."

Yes, I've had the same thing happen a number of times. I actually worked for a consulting company that encouraged excellent and efficient work. Unfortunately there are only so many decent projects to go around. The real problem now is that getting that *next* position is the killer. Three years ago you could pick up a job or contract in a few weeks of looking, but now it's more like 16 months (that's the number a recruiter related to me).

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Now let's all go to New Delhi and Calcutta and see how things are there.

the PC movement has screwed up life for lots of educated Indians. Quotas for untouchables have forced educated IT professionals to come over here on VISAs to find work. Read this months National Geographic.

[JohnSmithee]

Computers are no longer "new" and the bubble has burst. 6% or 7% unemployment is relatively low and normal. Get used to it.

Swervie, you are not so naïve as to believe the actual unemployment rate has any relationship to the reported rate.

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A lot of IT people are simply leaving the field and so presumably are no longer counted as unemployed IT workers.

[Admin Moderator]

'tis why I carry a parasol.

[blueriver]

There is no such thing as "corporate welfare."

What about the farm bill?

What about all the taxes that we pay to support all the foreigners that use our schools our roads etc. These "workers" are not here for the benefit of the general public, they are here for the benefit of corporations. So in essence the tax payer pays for corporations to have an unlimited supply of low cost foreign workers. If this is not corporate welfare what is it?

[PFKEY]

One of my most valuable skills is a command of the English language.

Amen.

[PFKEY]

most still think that presidents have anything to do with economy.

People still strongly believe this nonsense.

Just watch the evening news.