[11th_VA]

Customer service agents field calls from the United States at the Customer Asset call center in Bangalore, India. Labor can be 70 percent cheaper than in the United States, and companies that shift their customer service departments to India can save up to 60 percent.

Associated Press File Photo

[risk]

This is the "free" market at work. Why "complain?" /sarcasm

[old patriot]

Since when has it been one political party or the other that could guarantee one's employment, unless it was a union job? Ever since America was a nation we have had problems of either a newer and cheaper work force would come onto our shores or the jobs were sent overseas.

Wait until India starts losing their jobs to China and see how quick they will start to yell.

Americans need to start looking for other ways to make livings when these things happen instead of complaining to Washington for some kind of public assistance. Since when did any politician ever claim that they could keep some plant open or business solvent?

We all need to start thinking for ourselves and quit looking for politicians to fix anything but the next election.

Old Patriot

[waterstraat]

While Olivares said he's not sure how much his replacement is making, he's willing to bet that the worker is making a lot less than his $65,000-a-year salary

Heres another one against free trade, against american companies maximizing their profits, etc.

It wont do any good, the company that replaced him with cheap foreign labor, is going to make plenty of extra profits, to enable them to give even more money to people in congress to make sure that cheap foreign outsourcing continues. As long as the politicians are given campaign contributions by the companies doing the outsourcing, our laws wont change in eliminating over paid americans.

[Captainpaintball]

I lost my credit card the other day...The guy on the other end of the line was from India. He later transferred me to an operator in the states, and I'm not sure who was worse. At least the guy in India spoke the King's English, and not "publik skool-ificated" ebonics! Hep me! Can I get a witness?

[kimosabe31]

Indeed, even the Republican Party has turned to outsourcing recently. The Indian magazine Business Standard recently reported that the GOP has hired HCL eServe to set up call centers in two Indian cities to make fundraising calls into the United States.

I'll remember this the next time I get a call from the RNC for money.

[kimosabe31]

Basically what this is all about is transferring US jobs out of the country in order to "fatten" the annual bonuses of the CEO's and exec's. Many of the oversea's hi tech types studied in the US at US taxpayer expense. Now they're back to take away the jobs.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Question_Assumptions]

There is a very simple monkey-wrench that the Congress could throw into this process that actually would make a lot of sense. Prohibit the export of data containing social security numbers and other personal information that can be used to fake identities outside of the United States as a matter of national security.