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IBM now employs more workers in India than US
NY Post ^
| 10/5/13
| John Aidan Byrne
Posted on 10/06/2013 3:24:19 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: proxy_user
If you’ve ever had to clean up after the $17K guys IBM puts on contracts, it becomes pretty clear that you get what you pay for. Despite the reputations of Asians, the entry-level folks are not very good coders.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:47:25 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(With bell, book, and candle, please.)
To: dfwgator; elkfersupper
“Yep, the US sees companies as social programs.”
So does India. The first Indian IT companies were HEAVILY subsidized by the Indian Govt. Even today India maintains a huge group of lobbyists in DC to encourage (aka bribe) Congress to keep the laws favorable for offshoring.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:48:23 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: elkfersupper
Generally I agree, however, part of the problem is the owners are essentially silent partners who aren't exercising due diligence. If the owners really wanted to make money they'd ship executive management to India. The people at the top of the food chain at IBM are completely clueless and not delivering value.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(With bell, book, and candle, please.)
To: proxy_user
But they get free transportation.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:50:26 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: jimbo123
I sure know this. My husband USED to work for IBM.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:51:03 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: FredZarguna
You mean you shouldn’t hire the high-school grad who took the two-week Java course at the cram school above the dosa joint? Who knew?
Seriously, the consulting companies will slip you plenty of duds if you let them. They’re all like that. You name the price, they’ll find someone who will accept it. Never believe what is on the resume, verify references, and watch out for identity fraud.
To: jimbo123
The problem seems to not be for America, but for New York
How is that a bad thing?
New York after Massachusetts is a great American problem
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:51:32 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: umgud
To: elkfersupper
I don't fault IBM or any of the others that have moved jobs offshore one little bit.
The purpose of any business enterprise is to make money for the owners.
For some reason, the U.S. has somehow come to the conclusion that the purpose of business is to employ people who don't want to work and provide them with a bunch of benefits (including health insurance and health care).
That's what you get when governments get into social engineering.
To: FredZarguna
Generally I agree, however, part of the problem is the owners are essentially silent partners who aren't exercising due diligence. If the owners really wanted to make money they'd ship executive management to India. The people at the top of the food chain at IBM are completely clueless and not delivering value. So clueless, their stock prices have been maintaining a long-term upward trajectory for years now?
To: elkfersupper
That's what you get when governments get into social engineering. BINGO! Of course knowing this( which we did) didn't exactly help during the nearly 3 years it took my husband to get another IT job.
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:57:43 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: jimbo123
I was an IBM Systems Service Rep for 11 years.....What IBM did was get out of the service end of the business and just got rid of everyone. All service went to 3rd party vendors....I now work for one of those 3rd party vendors who now has not only a bunch of the old IBM contracts, but a lot of the old HP contracts...
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posted on
10/06/2013 3:58:49 PM PDT
by
coolbreeze
(giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
To: James C. Bennett
So clueless, their stock prices have been maintaining a long-term upward trajectory for years now?...and they pay a nice dividend.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:04:28 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Gabz
BINGO! Of course knowing this( which we did) didn't exactly help during the nearly 3 years it took my husband to get another IT job.You're talking to a 61-year-old banker whose employer of nearly 20 years was closed and liquidated by the FDIC 3 months after it posted a $70 million annual profit.
The feds didn't like the fact that it had grown from footings of $20 million to $1.4 billion and from 30 employees to nearly 300.
All of us were out looking for jobs. I still have not found one after 3 years.
To: coolbreeze
IBM has an enterprise service division that runs service desks. It makes sense that they bid on desks maintained in India since many companies have support centers there.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:09:41 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
To: elkfersupper
I bet if so many companies hadn’t offshored you might have found a job by now.
But it sure helps those stock prices never mind that money doesn’t come back to the US, nor does the technology or knowledge.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:18:21 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
People don’t understand that IBM has drastically reduced its presence as a seller of hardware (and thus manufacturing) and has largely become a services company. It’s hard to service companies in Asia or South America from NY.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:19:39 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: elkfersupper
Yikes. I’m so sorry to hear that.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:22:37 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Straight Vermonter; coolbreeze
Its hard to service companies in Asia or South America from NY. But it is also hard to service companies in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia from India. My husband is now working for another company, but servicing many of the companies he had been servicing when he worked for IBM.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:34:05 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: elkfersupper
>That’s what you get when governments get into social engineering.<
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The word ‘social engineering’ sounds so innocuous and innocent but in reality is nothing but the taking away of personal freedom.
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posted on
10/06/2013 4:34:09 PM PDT
by
353FMG
( I don't say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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