re: #853 Obdicut

Yeah. And more and more jobs will be able to be moved as education goes up in the rest of the world— one reason we need to get off our asses on that front.

I’m not saying no jobs can ever get outsourced or moved, but that— as anyone who’s dealt with contract Indian computer engineer firms can tell you— you get what you pay for.

Really, about four years ago, when my career as a programmer was taking a turn for the worst and I lost my full time programming job of 13 years as a contractor with the DOE, I spent 5 months as a contractor at McKesson Technologies, the third largest provider of drugs and other medical services.

In my case, I worked at the division which wrote and supplied hospital management systems.

There were 200 employees at this division. About 50 were full time employees. The rest, about 150, were contractors. About 75 of them were from India, on a 6 month training stay in this country with McKesson.

After their training, they went back to India to carry on projects and tasks over there.

Smartest bunch of men and woman I ever met in Information Technology.

You pay and deal with India IT contractors? What is your professional knowledge in the India IT business?