Corporate America jumps ship, swims to cheaper pastures!

By SN Saturday August 22, 2009

Slashdot – August 22, 2009:

“If you’re brilliant, work really hard, and earn a world-class doctorate from a US university, IBM has a job for you at one of its US research sites — as a ‘complementary worker‘ (as this 1996 piece defined the then-emerging term). But be prepared to ship out to India or China after you’ve soaked up knowledge for 13 months as a ‘long-term supplemental worker.’ Newsweek sketches some of the bigger picture, reporting that IBM, HP, Accenture, and others are finding it profitable to detach from the United States (even patenting the process). ‘IBM is one of the multinationals that propelled America to the apex of its power, and it is now emblematic of the process of creative destruction pushing America to a new, less dominant, and less comfortable position.'”

35 Comments

bobbo, Sunday morning cartoons says:

8/23/2009 at 5:15 pm

#33–noname==funny. Not funneeee, but funny.

Yep, now we just have to start recognizing the rest of the world. That will be hard to do beyond rhetoric when we spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined.

Most of our problems, are caused by ourselves.
noname says:

8/23/2009 at 5:24 pm

# 34 bobbo, Sunday morning cartoons,

I know.

We will have China right where we want them when they become #1. Suckers….
NJCarGuy says:

8/23/2009 at 7:10 pm

My company is in the middle of laying off tons of programmers and hiring Accenture and, especially, IBM consultants…in India. They claim that they are trying to find ‘other roles’ for them in the company, but they aren’t. Instead, they are being ‘transitioned outside (insert our company name here)’…which is one of the more outrageous euphemisms for layoffs that I’ve ever heard…
The irony is that many of the ‘transitioned’ employees, are Indian programmers with H1b visas (and naturalized citizens).