The other side of the coin:

Interesting article on what it is like for those working "outsourced" jobs in India:


http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/kakani/2006/0809.html

(I hope I didn't post this twice. For some reason, I was deletedlast time I posted)

Somehow I wouldn't have a problem telling one of those asshole callers to stick a heated rupee up their ass. Call me rude.
They are building their whole lousy economy on this shit?

I'm tired of calling for tech support and getting Apu, who not only doesn't speak English well, but doesn't know jack shit about his job.

I'm angry that I had to change my phone number because of a handful of Indian jerkass telemarketers who thought it was great sport to keep making deliberately harassing phone calls to our number, even after I politely explained that we were caring for my aunt, an elderly lady dying of heart failure.

I'm sick of hearing them whine about having to do their jobs--what a concept! And they call AMERICANS lazy?

If they don't like being verbally abused, the answer is simple: Quit your job and give it back to an American.

"for every dollar of work outsourced to India, the US gains $1.12-$1.14."

That gain goes to who? The American worker who lost their job? Not hardly. That means the so-called "gain" means nothing to the average American. That's also why they get angry when someone who is obviously in India or somewhere similar calls and lies about who they are. Incidentally, the rudeness and abuse the author referred to is not a one way street. Sometimes it even starts on the Indian side of the phone call.

Another glaring error by the author. "After all those Americans/Europeans who have lost their jobs to Indians still have their social security, can still move around in minivans, and can still afford deluxe health treatment"

I'm going to be polite and say that obviously the author has not kept abreast of the state of the American economic news. All those people who lost their jobs when Indian was recruited to work at 1/10 of the cost of the American worker do NOT necessarily have pensions. Indeed a lot of us won't have pensions and probably, thanks to Bush, won't have social security much longer either. Investing in the stock market looks shakier all the time due to shady actions, the latest of which has turned out to be backdating benefits for the CEOs. There won't be much moving around in minivans due to the price of gas and realistically speaking the only people who can afford deluxe health treatment NOW are the wealthy; just like in India.