Is Outsourcing Tech Support Overseas a Good Idea?

Sidney · 1st August 2005, 07:27

When manufacturing left the United States, the tech sector was
supposed to be the new frontier. Americans rushed out to be retrained.
Students set their sites on computer engineering. Our tech sector was
so good, it created the very systems that made it possible to replace
itself. Corporations discovered that an Indian college graduate will
work at a call center for 10,000 rupees a month, or just under $60.00
a week. I have no malice for our Indian friends, they only want to
work. But our kids are going to have to become proficient at more than
playing video games and watching movies to compete with this highly
educated and driven mass of hungry labor! Math anyone?

Direct link: http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=319

Sidney · 1st August 2005, 07:33

Is eating out rather than cooking a Good Idea?
Is building your own funiture a good idea? etc, etc, etc.

Is all about economic .....

Yet, there are far less engineering graduates in the U.S. than India and China; a huge difference than 30 years ago.

Are any of your children engineers?? If you don't have one, why not?

1st August 2005, 07:27	#1
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Is Outsourcing Tech Support Overseas a Good Idea? When manufacturing left the United States, the tech sector was supposed to be the new frontier. Americans rushed out to be retrained. Students set their sites on computer engineering. Our tech sector was so good, it created the very systems that made it possible to replace itself. Corporations discovered that an Indian college graduate will work at a call center for 10,000 rupees a month, or just under $60.00 a week. I have no malice for our Indian friends, they only want to work. But our kids are going to have to become proficient at more than playing video games and watching movies to compete with this highly educated and driven mass of hungry labor! Math anyone? Direct link: http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=319 __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

1st August 2005, 07:33	#2
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Is eating out rather than cooking a Good Idea? Is building your own funiture a good idea? etc, etc, etc. Is all about economic ..... Yet, there are far less engineering graduates in the U.S. than India and China; a huge difference than 30 years ago. Are any of your children engineers?? If you don't have one, why not? __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

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