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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 01:22  PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
> > Maybe I only just noticed this, but is anyone else annoyed at having
> to
> > listen to a company advertise trying to get local employers to move
> our
> > jobs out of the country?  Keane is running little promotional spots
> > offering to move IT jobs to "near shore" or "offshore":
> >
> > http://www.keane.com/services/manage_app.php
>
> I know I have heard Keane mentioned on NPR as a sponsor.  I think I'm
> going to call WUNC and see what their response is to this issue.  I  
> give
> them money and in turn they are running "ads" to try to get my job  
> moved
> oversees.
>
> Did you hear this on another station?

This was on the local NPR 91.5 station last night driving home. The  
outsourcing issue is complex, and while I haven't yet come up with a  
preferred responses to this trend, I sure don't think its appropriate  
to broadcast this message to the thousands of tech. workers in the  
triangle as they drive home.  I'm definitely writing a letter to the  
station manager.

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time
to dry. -- Pratchett
        -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC