Re: Oracle Corp. move to India

When your government sees evidence that the loss of high skill jobs in this country impacts our prosperity as a nation, perhaps something will be done about it. Until then, if moving operations overseas benefits the corporation and its stock holders, your job (and mine) really doesn't matter much to the people in power. There are thousands who have been down this road before and no one, not the government or the governed (who happily buy anything made anywhere as long as the price is right) cared when steel and fabric mills, shoe factories, electronics factories, and the like all closed up as production went overseas. The fact is that, overall, the economy keeps growing and many people view such events as a natural course in the evolution of a nation. Learn to adjust to the times. When you can't find employment in your chosen field, it is time to re-group and re-engineer yourself for present realities. Unfortunately, like some of my industrial engineering friends, that can often mean working retail into your retirement years.

Glenn Stauffer

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 04:55 pm, dmeng_at_focal.com wrote:
> I would not treat this snip of news in such a light-hearted manner.
> Comparing to couple of years ago, the IT job market has slumped completely
> from a sellers market to a buyer's market. I am not a greedy person by any
> means and all I asking for is a decent salary and some job security. But if
> this trend of massive exports of IT jobs overseas continues, I am not sure
> how many of us will be able to have that.
> BTW, before firing the slingshots at this E-mail, please note that I am
> pro-globalization and have heard the arguments about fair
> market/competition etc. But bear in mind that we are standing on uneven
> grounds when competing with third world programmers because of the huge
> housing and living expense differences.
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> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
> Focal Communications Corp.
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> > Heard on the BBC radio at lunch that Oracle Corp. is moving alot of
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