FUNNY OFFSHORE STORY

[Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

Hi all, I wanted to share this last week and then forgot. I had an 
interview last week and the interviewer had the audacity to tell me that 
the technical writing industry was not in a recession so wondered why I 
hadn't worked much last year.

Then, my husband who is a programmer and whose job is being offshore 
outsourced to India had an interview. He does Oracle work. Three years 
ago the Minneapolis newspaper would have had over 100 jobs in the Sunday 
paper for Oracle, but now there are usually 2-5 Oracle jobs in the 
Sunday paper. The IT director was shocked that his job was moving to 
India and told him that there wasn't any recession going on. He also 
indicated shock about the Oracle job moving to India because as he told 
my husband, "Companies don't just move work to India."

People never cease to amaze me.

--
Michele

"Not allowed to sing 'High Speed Dirt' by Megadeth during airborne operations." ('See the earth below/Soon to make a crater/Blue sky, black death, I'm off to meet my maker')
Quoted from a military blog
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