[Poohbah]

You can tell me and 30 other programmers in my team that it's all a myth; we all lost our jobs as programmers and the entire system was moved to India. Maybe all 30 of us dreamed we were programmers.

1. They were not "your" jobs, unless you jointly owned the company.

2. The plural form of "anecdote" is not "data."

[gedeon3]

Still, my point was that offshoring is not a myth. Can't you people read a damm thing?

[r9etb]

1. They were not "your" jobs, unless you jointly owned the company.

Well, then let's just say that the employers decided to reallocate the job for which they had originally paid him, and outsourced it overseas.

2. The plural form of "anecdote" is not "data."

OTOH, it is data to note that many manufacturing industries have shipped their entire assembly operations overseas, such that certain products are no longer made here. Clothes and shoes are a good example -- try to find athletic shoes or blue jeans that are made in the US. Any that are still made here are the rare exception.

One can argue that it's not a problem, but to claim that "outsourcing" doesn't happen is to deny reality.