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["David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>]

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