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Outsourcing at work... My mortgage was recently purchased by Citifinancial and the so-called "Customer Service" is in India. (These were once our jobs!) After 3 attempts and many phone calls (which were dropped twice) to get a fax to the correct person through the broken-english speaking customer service line, I finally gave up. I was attempting to change the due date of my EZ Pay (Ha!) loan payment and finally gave it up. Do not do anything with Citifinancial if you have a choice! I spent the afternoon trying to find a real BOSS to complain to and apparently there...

Petition To Kerry: Bring jobs back to the U.S.A. Dear Kerry, I am writing to you to ask you to bring back the plants that your wife has located in countries outside of the United States. I find it hypocritical that you do not like off shore companies and your claiming that the Bush administration is sending jobs abroad. Well, it seems that the Heinz Corporation, owned by your wife, has 79 plants where it manufacturers products, and 57 of the 79 are located in countries outside of the U.S. How many U.S. jobs are lost here? Check it out...

<p>Larry Ellison is chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., a business softwaremaker in Redwood City. The company reported net income of $2.3 billion on revenue of $9.47 billion for the fiscal year ended May 31.</p> <p>Oracle, with a current market capitalization of about $72 billion, employs 40,000 people, including 18,000 in the United States and 22,000 in other countries. Ellison, who co-founded Oracle in 1977, controls about 25 percent of the company's common shares and exercisable options, and has a net worth of at least $18 billion. He was ranked as the ninth-richest American in 2002 by Forbes magazine.</p>