Anybody looking for a job they lost?

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Maybe you can find it here }(

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13399331
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iGate to hire 5000 people in three years
Monday, 23 February , 2004, 20:46
Bangalore: Software services and business process outsourcing company iGate Global Solutions plans to increase its workforce to about 8,000 people over the next three years from the current level of 3,200, company CEO Phaneesh Murthy said today.
Discuss: Is Infosys losing talent to iGate?

Addressing a press conference at the inauguration of the company's new corporate headquarters here, he said the Bangalore office was expected to house about 3,000 employees.

"We currently have about 900 employees in Bangalore and this number should go up to over 3,000 in the next three years," he stated
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I am still waiting to see if they can figure out how to ship my truck mechanic's job overseas :D

[brokensymmetry]

1. They probably won't ship it overseas -

instead, you'll face lots and lots of people who suddenly discover that they've always wanted to be a truck mechanic instead of a Systems Analyst...

Sorta like all the people who've developed a real love for selling real estate...

[nolabels]

5. I already deal with that

Keeping track of two or three extra sets of hands is a chore, but you know that job security has it's price.

Generally though, office/engineer type people shy away from because it's manual, dirty and your working with someone else's idea. I see it as a job with not many takers and of them not a whole lot of people knowledgeable enough about it to do it.

I often find myself training someone to do a lot of the basics, but it takes years to learn even most of the nuances. Often when one gets a lot years being a mechanic, they often they get hurt or disabilities related to it.

As for myself, I am planning to be careful so I might get another twenty years out of it. But I am not recommending it to anyone

[wellstone_democrat]

2. "who moved my cube?"

My sister told me that her neighbor (in Boston) was given "Who moved the Cheese" by the company for Xmas---they bought 'em by the boxload. Today, they found their IT jobs were moving "overseas"---when they expressed their shock and upset, the VP of personnel told them that they should look at the book for "how to cope." Seems, as the book plainly says that they should all buck up (and shut up) and not ask where jobs are going but "move on."

Pretty cold eh? Oh, and I've had a billing problem with MCI in the past few months. I've had four extended calls with them. Each was with someone obviously not American and each person could not understand what I was talking about. One repeated what was obviously the "book" version of the answer to a similar problem the other two just couldn't figure anything out. The original problem? I called to cancel service in April 2003. I spoke then to someone with limited English. They didn't discontinue the long distance portion.

Oh yes, everything will be *so* much better shipped to India. My sister's friend has no prospects, I can't get a damn person at MCI to make any sense.

[brokensymmetry]

7. That company is cold.

I wonder if we should design a coffee mug that says - My job took a trip to China, and all I got was this lousy book!

[ldoolin]

3. Some jobs the corporations ship overseas, others they...

...will replace with cheap nonunion labor using the H-1-B visa program.

[Taeger]

4. L-Z1

It' really easy for IT services companies to get around H-1B hard caps with L-Z1 Visas. There are NO limitations to L-Z1s.

Basically, IT outsourcing is a giant scheme to sidestep H-1B with another form of foreign visa with no caps. Just "Outsource" your IT to an "domestic" company who completes the hit by filling those positions with imported IT personnell.

You wanna hear the kicker ???? Unlike H-1Bs who are SUPPOSED to pay federal income taxes (but RARELY do) L-Z1s aren't even required to pay taxes.

Ain't that great????? Do you figure that some accountant in Washington has added up the numbers and figured that they are bankrupting the government by replacing well paid American taxpayers with foreign free-loaders who DO NOT pay taxes??????

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6. The bean counters like how it looks keen on that spread

Probably why ranchers put up fences, keeping track of who's is who's on what side of the barbed wire does have its rewards.

[historian]

8. Let them export all the jobs...

and who is going to buy their junk? Europeans as a whole keep their possessions much longer than we do - something breaks they fix it - dont run out to buy another.
South america places enormous taxes on imports - only the few with credit cards can afford them
Asia makes all our stuff already and dont buy it - they buy it at a much cheaper price or buy gray market stuff.