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[David Minton <david AT designhammer.com>]

Something to remember about "family and friends in the manufacturing area"
that lost their jobs in North Carolina--it is just a long established trend.
They got their jobs when labor became too expensive in the North East.
Agricultural workers were willing to work for lower wages than Northerners
in North Carolina, I guess to get out of the fields. The process will repeat
itself when the latest recipients of those jobs want higher wages than those
in an even less developed country.

David

On 1/31/03 7:31 AM, "Roger Austin" <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com> 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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