[dirtboy]

Translation, insider trading leech.

Nah, translation, someone who thinks their job can't be outsourced. As techies did five years ago.

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Nah, translation, someone who thinks their job can't be outsourced. ~ dirtboy

Close.

Translation, someone who doesn't realize their job can be done by anyone with a computer and an uplink, from anywhere on earth, because they think they have "special" knowledge that little brown people can't learn.

His naïveté is astounding, but not surprising, given his deeply seated prejudices...

[HowardC]

I've worked 31 years as a software developer (and a very good one, too). In February, I was given 3 hours notice and the Houston software lab that I had worked at for 11 years was shut down. The jobs moved to India. I went from over 100K a year plus incentive bonuses to zip. I'm still looking for work. At least 15 other developers I worked with are in the same boat. That's a 1.5 mil in salaries that are no longer in the Houston economy. At BMC they laid off 900 about a month ago. I would guess that the average salary was around 80K there. I've heard that about 250,000 IT types are currently out of work. Even if the average salary were 50K, we're talking 12.5 billion in lost wages nation wide. All arguements about free trade, etc. aside, this has got to have one very large, long term impact on the economy.

[JohnSmithee]

"someone who thinks their job can't be outsourced. As techies did five years ago."

I knew it was coming but I thought we had a good 15 years to go. Amazing how things changed in the span of a few years.