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  • From: "David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] where your job is headed ...
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:11:13 -0500

tee hee hee --

now we're all a bunch of ungrateful whiners 'cause we are watching our potentials for making a decent living go to countries/societies that most likely don't give a damn about the United States (besides sucking money out of us, that is).

we'll i guess if one had lived the majority of their life already and were watching income potentials dwindle, then this would be a popular party line.

but for the few of us that work our asses off and /still/ are waiting for a decent wage, this economic news isn't so comforting. oh, great - i can go back to business school and accumulate /more/ student loans!! (still haven't paid off the previous ones). then *I* can be an impotent middle-manager, too!!

/drm

p.s. i really like giving our money away to foreign countries while US citizens continue to struggle with poverty, malnutrition and illiteracy.

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 07:31 AM, Roger Austin wrote:

Git a grip. Compared to our family and friends in the manufacturing area who have permanently lost their low paying jobs to latin america and beyond, we have nothing to whine about. The IT bubble silliness caused a lot of IT workers to consider themselves much more valuable than they were. Businesses paid much too much for IT staff and woke up to that fact over the last few years.
For those IT workers with moderate skills or skills in only one area, I would suggest they take advantage of the continuing education offered in this area. Consider yourself lucky that you have this when you could be a mill worker in Valdese who has no such advantage.
Was the IT boom a hoax? Absolutely. The bubble was a fluke and now people are pissed off about business doing what they have always done (i.e., hiring the cheapest labor they can hire.) It just so happens that it is now in our area. Git used to it or move on to something else.
Roger (I really feel bitchy this morning for some reason...)

zman wrote:
This is one of the scariest trends to come around since they passed NAFTA.
I was hoping the IT industry was gonna rebound within a year or two, but
with this I think it'll still get worse before/if it gets better.
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Thomas Beckett wrote:
.... without you:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm





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