Due to our large workload and inability to find enough staff, the firm I work for has “farmed” out drafting work to India!
Has anybody else experienced this outsourcing?
Our firm is doing the same thing. We are also farming out to Puerto Rico. They aren’t farming out any of my work though.
Yes, our firm (but not this office) has been having CAD work done in India for about a year or more.
We’ve probably all heard the phrase “all chiefs and no indians” – be careful what you wish for (or complain about…)
So all of our manufacturing is in China and all of our service industry is in India. Remind me what we do here in the USA?
sue
Spoken like a true lawyer to be.
On the news there was something about jobs that are now coming back from overseas!
Question : What is the truest definition of Globalization?
Answer : Princess Diana’s death.
Question : How come?
Answer :
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car
with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, followed closely by
Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by a Scottish/German using Bill Gates’s technology, and you’re probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by
Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals…
That, my friends, is Globalization!
Yes. Reminds me of my conversation in Spanish with an Italian women in a Chinese restaurant in France a few years ago (true).
Thankfully spec writing will never be outsourced!
or the conversation I overheard in Italy between a Turkish woman and a French woman speaking in English (their common language) about how to take a train to some location in Germany.
So, John, were you trying to pick her up? Any luck?
Even though it is almost a decade old “The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Understanding Globalization” by Thomas Friedman gives an excellent overview of the subject (ISBN: 0374192030).
Ron: Actually, I was there with my wife and a bunch of other friends, and there were additional conversations in English and French all going on at the same time.