Job security for coders
American gets the poop on outsourcing to India — This story is floating around the net, but the major media has yet to pick it up. Toadies. Read this then re-read the Bill Gates stuff.
New York, May 3: Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.
Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labour, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings as the “Delmar Dog Butler.”
“My parents paid for me to get a (degree) in math and now I am a pooper scooper,” Relles, a 42-year-old married father of two told Reuters. “I can clean four to five yards in a hour if they are close together.”
Relles, who lost his computer programming job about three years ago, got the idea of cleaning dog dirt from people’s back yards from Mark Booth, a friend in Buffalo, New York.
newstip from: G. Mohammed
I thought flipping veggieburgers was bad.
But pooper-scoopin’…..?
Although, he could supply me with a tasty new condiment, something like pureed dog turd would complement the Masala quite well, actually.
I’ll give Steve a call.
As Bill says, he must not be smart enough.
Sad as it may be.
He must be making decent cash, otherwise one would think he might persue something a little more glamorous. Fast food or a job at a retail/grocery store.
You really have to wonder what’s keeping this guy out of work. The job market it tough but I’ve managed to find work in the tech sector, even in a small town right after graduation. Even the “not smart enough” comment doesn’t really ring true as mediocre people are hired all the time.
Perhaps this story was just picked up (pardon the pun) as a human insterest thing because someone wanted to (again sorry) make a stink. Maybe this guy is happier this way. Believe it or not, some people are happier doing simple job with little to no responsibility. I have a friend who had a snazzy tech job and then decided to give up tech all together. Now she works in a laundrymat and loves it.
perhaps he could plot the random distribution of poops
and extrapolate the dogs next move thus reducing his
workload.
Hey, the competition to GET a burger flipping job or a job in retail is pretty darn stiff, plus a lot of the people doing hiring don’t want to hire people with “more education” because “why would they stay?” (and of course, insecurity by the hiring…as a huge flaw of middle management is the fear of hiring people more qualified, and perhaps, better to take the job of the person doing the hiring).
Seems to me the guy just made up a job that he could market and get. The irony is he’s doing the work that “American’s don’t want to do” according to Bush….. uhhh, so, what’s the deal with that logic?
Are you sure you won’t be posting something like this in the future, John?
“Unemployed welfare recipient takes menial job to survive!!”
Perhaps meetsy won’t let you.
Don’t forget the ageism angle – it’s one thing to hire a “hungry” college grad, and another to bring on an experienced worker with wife and kids in tow – automatic health care costs. Bill can’t possibly mention this publicly.
Besides, isn’t being a math major a little like being an English major, only with precision? You can teach, you can code, you can work for the government. You have your sheepskin, and it proves you can think. But does anyone care anymore about a “classical” education? We should, but…
Meesty, thumbs up for your post. T.C. Moore, thumbs down for yours.
Older workers are discriminated against. And, as meetsy pointed out, they usually come with the baggage of extra health care costs, demands for more money, and less “fire in the belly”.
T. C. it seems that you would like everyone to fall to the lowest point. That might make the Bushits happy, but it does no good for the country.