The joys of outsourcing

I normally don’t post stuff written by others but I just had to share this one. It’s from Slashdot.org and sums up my experience with outsourcing to India really well. Hello there! Please refer to your opening on job posting site. I, Rajesh Sharma, would like to apply for the job.[…]My hourly rates are $ 9 USD. We all like to pretend this isn’t here and it isn’t happening, but I would say conservatively half the job market has disappeared in 10 years due to this currency/standard of living imbalance....

January 27, 2010 · 2 min · alj