# Welcome to Globalization!
**URL:** https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973
**Category:** Archive - Specifications Discussions #3
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973 "2008-01-29T21:18:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@David\_Axt](https://forum.4specs.com/u/David_Axt)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/1 "2008-01-29T21:18:44Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@rbaxter](https://forum.4specs.com/u/rbaxter)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/2 "2008-01-29T21:23:03Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@bwoodburn](https://forum.4specs.com/u/bwoodburn)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/3 "2008-01-29T22:18:24Z")
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…)
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### Author:  [@David\_Axt](https://forum.4specs.com/u/David_Axt)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/4 "2008-01-29T22:46:03Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@robin](https://forum.4specs.com/u/robin)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/5 "2008-01-29T22:57:52Z")
sue
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### Author:  [@specman](https://forum.4specs.com/u/specman)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/6 "2008-01-30T01:59:22Z")
Spoken like a true lawyer to be.
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### Author:  [@Liz\_Knight\_CSI\_CCS](https://forum.4specs.com/u/Liz_Knight_CSI_CCS)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/7 "2008-01-30T19:11:00Z")
On the news there was something about jobs that are now coming back from overseas!
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### Author:  [@rm\_beard\_ccs](https://forum.4specs.com/u/rm_beard_ccs)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/8 "2008-01-30T21:42:13Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@bunzick](https://forum.4specs.com/u/bunzick)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/9 "2008-02-05T18:43:47Z")
Yes. Reminds me of my conversation in Spanish with an Italian women in a Chinese restaurant in France a few years ago (true).
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### Author:  [@David\_Axt](https://forum.4specs.com/u/David_Axt)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/10 "2008-02-05T22:04:48Z")
Thankfully spec writing will never be outsourced!
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### Author:  [@awhitacre](https://forum.4specs.com/u/awhitacre)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/11 "2008-02-05T22:55:54Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@rm\_beard\_ccs](https://forum.4specs.com/u/rm_beard_ccs)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/12 "2008-02-06T20:27:33Z")
So, John, were you trying to pick her up? Any luck?
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### Author:  [@jsandoz](https://forum.4specs.com/u/jsandoz)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/13 "2008-02-07T13:09:33Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@bunzick](https://forum.4specs.com/u/bunzick)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.4specs.com/t/welcome-to-globalization/973/14 "2008-02-07T13:59:43Z")
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.