[altair]

What part of "Get Government out of the way and let businesses do what they do best - employ people and create value" does anyone not understand?

[altair]

Energizing the economy by reducing regulations on business? Who would have thunk that could possibly work?

[Nervous Tick]

Thank you for your post. This is VERY interesting to me, coming from a “man on the scene” with no hidden agenda.

Please tell me what you mean by the three-letter acronym “PHB”?

thx and FRegards

[RobRoy]

I’ve been in IT since 1983. I work for a major international company as well. I have gotten sick and tired of telephone conferences with people that speak in broken english and finally found a solution. I CONSTANTLY ask them to repeat themselves, over and over and over, until I understand what they are saying.

My company has no clue how this language barrier affects projects. I do. Back in the day, people communicated and projects were usually clean and at least came “close” to what the business wanted. Nowadays, Fix In Prod, which was only a joke back in the 80’s and 90’s, is actually the rule of the day.

The thing is, some people do not understand what is being said and just “rubber stamp” everything they think they are hearing. It then comes back to bite us in the end.

It is one reason I’m desperate to get out of the business. I’m just done.

[cripplecreek]

Morgan Spurlock did an episode about a guy who followed his job to India. The most interesting part was the attitude of the Indians. They understand the anger Americans have over the issue but also know that the jobs won’t stay there forever.

[Vendome]

SEZ WHO? LOL

[Willie Green]

India is partially aided in the fact that India's equivalent of Wall Street doesn't have anywhere near as a voracious appetite as Wall Street Manhattan, but still ...

So where's the beef???

Indians buying more cars, pushing up gas prices

[TSgt]

I predict that Bangalore, within the coming decade will become the new global "Silicon Valley" even though it's not in a valley.

I predict you are wrong. Off-shoring redundant technology and business processes is NOT innovation, it's simply getting easy work done cheap.

[brownsfan]

“What part of “Get Government out of the way and let businesses do what they do best - employ people and create value” does anyone not understand?”

Our elected officials don’t have the capability to understand the difference between constructive regulation and destructive regulation. While our government is killing jobs, and driving business offshore, they allow BP to do what they did.

[Non-Sequitur]

What part of "Get Government out of the way and let businesses do what they do best - employ people and create value" does anyone not understand?

What do you think they're doing? They're just doing it in India rather than here.

[bamahead]

Executive summary: What part of getting government out business and letting business do what it does best doesn't anyone understand?



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[bamahead]

Two thumbs up on the vanity!!

[zeugma]

At the company I work for, outsourcing to india hasn't really worked out well. Of course, the PHBs won't admit it, but it has driven our costs up considerably and slowed down development, and to top it off, the quality of the "finished" product is not up to snuff.

Sure, Indian programmers are cheaper, but when it takes 10 to 20 "programmers" to equal one of our guys here, the payoff just isn't there. Overall, I haven't been impressed with offshoring.

On a personal level, if I call a company for something and get routed to India, I'm a hell of a lot less likely to continue to do business with them.