This announcement just in from the Seattle Times.
Microsoft to invest $400M in India over three years
Let me put that to you another way.
Microsoft to laid off American tech workers.
"SCREW YOU WE ARE SENDING YOUR JOBS TO INDIA"
"We are very optimistic as to what will happen to information technology in this country," Gates said of India, whose strength he said lies in its education system, a fast developing communication infrastructure and its its vast pool of skilled labor.
I think he means "vast pool of cheap ass third world labor who will work for a 10th what a US tech worker needs to live on".
From the article on the growing number of starving out of work local tech workers on the SAME DAMN PAGE!
Among the donors who have turned in to clients is Matt Lang, who first went to the food bank Oct. 24 - his 45th birthday - after waking to an empty pantry and bare shelves. An instructional and graphic designer who speaks five languages, the Bellevue man spent years in high demand. He was working with international technology companies, developing training programs. He finished a $39-an-hour, one-year contract with Microsoft last fall and hasn't been able to find work since.
I mean some people wonder why I am so pessimistic about the US tech job market. I am just depressed and enraged that there is really nothing that I can learn oe do that will stop a sweat shop in India who will offer to do the work for less than US minimum wage. And to add insult to injury legally there is nothing stopping every last God-damn US tech job from being "outsourced" to India.
Now I have to spend the rest of the day trying to not be too pissed off and depressed.
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