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To: TChris

What do you do for a living? They should bring in a bunch of low wage foreigners to undercut your pay.


67 posted on 03/07/2007 4:50:59 PM PST by fifthestate
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To: fifthestate
What do you do for a living? They should bring in a bunch of low wage foreigners to undercut your pay.

* chuckle *

I'm a programmer, for the most part. Some network admin, tech support, etc., but mostly Windows software development.

Here's a little anecdote from my own--well, actually my wife's--personal experience:

During the run-up to the Y2K changeover, my wife was a support analyst for a major medical software company. The company had ramped up the development department quite a bit in preparation for the effort. As part of that ramp-up, the company hired some H-1B programmers, mostly Indian IIRC.

After working with the development department for a couple of years, my wife overwhelmingly preferred working with the Indian programmers. The difference in attitude, professionalism and quality was like night and day. The Indian programmers were more humble, helpful, thorough, disciplined and easier to work with. Yes, there were some cultural and language barriers to overcome, but the important stuff was simply done better by the guys from India.

We Americans need to learn to quit whining and looking for others to make life easier for us. Frequently--not always, but frequently--we are our own worst enemy.

72 posted on 03/07/2007 5:47:17 PM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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