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I finally get it.... - MQturnedBipolar

Posted: Mar 02, 2010

After receiving the infamous "no jobs available" for the upteen time today, it finally hit me. What an amazing way to get rid of MTs without really having to get rid of them on your own. Drive the MTs insane with no work, yet keep them locked to their computers in the hope that a job might become available. It feels kinda like playing the lottery....you know it's a waste of money and time, but just maybe you might win...ughh. Why is it that our "professional" job has become worse than making minimum wage. Wal-Mart greeting here I come........I'll be in the big money then : (

Exactly. MQ needs a lot of us to leave. Our jobs are what they are - now because of India.

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We have been brought down to their level. In fact, I think, if you take their cost of living and wages into consideration, they are probably making much more than us now.

Sad but true. Thank our own government for allowing corporations to do this - to send our work out of the country and get a tax break for it.

NOT because of India, but because of corporate greed here in the good ol' US of A. - nm

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nm

YES because of India, because of the abundance of CHEAP - willing LABOR.

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That is what set the tone for this whole thing. That is what allowed corporate to stuff more money in their pockets. It could not be done if it were not for the cheap labor willing to work for PEANUTS.

Willing to work for Peanuts? - WeAreIndiansToo!

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The irony here is grand. I know I work for peanuts and I'm not working in India. I work hard, albeit for peanuts. Our work is leaving, our paychecks are leaving, our food is leaving, our homes are leaving, our families are leaving, and now our minds are leaving....why else are we here reading and writing on these boards?! Waiting for the NJA notification to abort. Well, actually working for peanuts would mean we would have something to eat at least and we could make a cute little hut out of the shells to live in. See mania has definitely set in, thank you Mr. Q.

we'd need glue to hold the shells together - i dont think we can afford that

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If INDIANS demanded DECENT wages. Corporate would have no where to run. - Cheap labor is helping corporate greed to flourish

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If we ALL demanded decent wages (India included) what would corporate do besides have to pay decent salaries?

They would be punished if they did - xyzzz

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Saw documentary where they have floor supervisors who can fire on the spot for no reason, bribe workers, etc., a highly sought after position. They have no morals, brutal.

Stop blaming the Indians!!!! - sm

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USA companies outsourced because IT IS CHEAP LABOR compared to our wages. However, it's not necessarily seen that way to all these ILPs. They are paid what their country, area, whatever has designated the pay scale is to be. These workers doing USA jobs are trying to make a living just like us. If our cost of living here were cheaper, so would be our wages.

I'm not PRO OUTSOURCING. I don't like the practice. But I also think a lot of things would sure cost more if all companies were forced to only use USA companies and were fined if using ILPs.

I see more and more of our work going to the ILPs, at least what's leftover after everybody goes EMR and in-house starts doing everything again.

I'm so glad I'm getting back into an office setting now and out of my current at-home job. The pay, job stability and benefit are all better. As well, I won't have to stress everyday about having work or getting paid.

Until they hire offshore - sm

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Indians to answer the phones at your current office job or offshore the transcription or whatever it is you do there...

I will blame the Indians because they allow it. - They are fuel to the CEOs fire.

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Everything is relative. They are accepting crap wages, and the CEOs are getting fatter and richer. That is why they send to India. If Indian laborers said, no, we know what this job is worth, then they would have to pay decent wages to ALL of us.

REMEMBER--THE MTSOs ARE NOT GETTING PAID BY THE HOSPITALS IN RUPEES. THEY ARE GETTING PAID AMERCIAN DOLLARS.

Like I said INDIANS complacency is ALLOWING this to go on.

Oops, your xenophobia is showing. - nm

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nm

Do you know what the definition of xenophobia is? - Nothing unknown here. YOU need a dictionary.

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FACT: Indian workers work for next to nothing.

FACT: Corporations are turning to India in droves to keep more money in their own pocket. They would rather pay cheap labor rather than pay an American a decent wage.

FACT: As long as thereis a plentiful cheap wage labor force, American corporations will continue to use then.

Invest in any good dictionaries lately?

It is THEIR fault for accepting that. Hmm . . sound like what is - gonna be happening here in USA soon.

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Think not? Better think again.

They need to stand up and not take it any more. If they don't fight it, I have a hard time feeling sorry for them.

Decent wages - workingmt

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Unfortunately, those are decent wages in India, in fact it is big bucks and they don't care whether or not they have benefits.

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