Primate Programming

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Tue Aug 5 22:54:34 2003

Dont worry in 50 years when the poorest aboriginee/pakistani/african is
economically better off then the people in the USA, jobs in IT will come
back with a vengeance here.
You can always find people willing to take a position for less money, but
will the job actually get done as needed?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Primate Programming


> At 10:05 PM 8/5/03 -0400, R. D. Davis wrote:
> >Quothe Tillman, Edward, from writings of Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:06:20PM
> -0500:
> >> And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates
too...
> >
> >The interesting thing about this is that a large percentage of
> >management and users are much closer to primates, intellectually
> >speaking, than we are.
> >
> >> From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf_at_siconic.com]
> >> This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the
US
> >> right now ;)
> >
> >Do you mean that an IT job market still exists in the U.S.? That is,
> >aside from the H1 visa employees imported for cheap labor along with
> >the cheap outsourced overseas labor.
> >
>
> I saw a funny article the other day. In it the Indians were whining
> about all the programming jobs that THEY were losing to the Asian and
> former Soviet countries.
>
> Joe
Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 22:54:34 BST