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Outsourced
Anyone watching this?
Not sure whether or not to be offended.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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fuck the hell out of this show
there is NOTHING funny about outsourced american jobs
NBC should be 8471273489712893718923% ashamed of themselves
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| Quote: | Originally posted by spyderdog
fuck the hell out of this show
there is NOTHING funny about outsourced american jobs
NBC should be 8471273489712893718923% ashamed of themselves |
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There is not a single person here that does not benefit from outsourced jobs. The cold reality is that the job market is an entity that is subject to
dramatic change and a lot of people are going to be on the losing end. Its one of those terrible things that has to exist, there is no Utopian
alternative to the situation.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by barc0debaby
There is not a single person here that does not benefit from outsourced jobs.
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bull the fuck shit
heres how you do it.....
stop giving tax breaks to shitty companies to take their jobs over seas so they can more easily give hand jobs to their high ups and their share
holders. tax the fuck out of them and essentially force them to play ball with the american labor market
give tax breaks to companies of a certain size or larger that keep their jobs here.
i have no fucking idea how you can say outsourcing benefits the people here.
first off, EVERYBODY HATES DEALING WITH CSRS THAT CANT SPEAK FUCKING ENGLISH. it means your calls take longer, which means your business runs less
efficiently, and you customer service index goes down causing customers to look elsewhere with their ever dwindling dollar. in addition you have to
deal with language barrier type mistake which again, hurt your efficiency, and your customer service index, and you have to hire more people (that
dont speak fucking english) to track down and fix the problems. NO BENEFITS THERE
now think for a second what our lives would look like if all the thousands of 50k + a year tech jobs hadnt had left. the stupifuck republicans like to
talk and talk about trickle down economics. that starts right here with this exact subject..... joe gets a 50K job. joe buys a house, and a new car,
and has to pay people to maintain, insure, up/downgrade, fuel, etc said purchases. joe is stimulating the economy every day he walks out the fucking
door in this country/county/community. mr. patel?? not so much (unless you own the fucking company). factor in your telecom costs and so on and you
really dont have a great deal there either
now, lets look at the CSR jobs. those are 10-15 dollar positions here. YOUNG PEOPLE have those jobs. when young people have jobs they stimulate the
economy via night life, retail spending, education, tech, they take care of children etc etc etc.......again IN THIS FUCKING COUNTRY. old people also
have those jobs which means less strain on medicare, and other entitlements because they are able to create addition income aside from social
security. this means less overworked emergency rooms and community urgent cares and more on private practice, which causes private insurance to spend
money, and it keeps higher paying jobs open and thriving in the private health care sector. again, the money stays here
you have large quantities of people spending money to survive and less on luxury items. the republican general philosophy works but only when directed
at the middle class, which is where they are currently and always will fail.
so where are we now then?? you dont seem to be hearing as many accents when you call the bank anymore do you?? theres a reason why.......
outsourcing doesnt work. it looks from the out set that theres cheap labor to be had and bush was handing out tax breaks for it like jasmine st claire
hands out the half and halfs. looks like a great deal!!
false
you factor in the drops in CSI, the tele costs, and the maintenance and quality control difficulties its not fucking worth it (also add in it doesnt
do a lick of shit if nobody can afford your products and services here either)
and look at it from a foreign relations angle.......
stupid greedy american asshat: "hey mr guy in pakistan who has been raised from birth to hate the west. poverty sucks huh?? heres a great new job! go
buy some shit and make a good life for yourself"
mr pakistan guy: "i hate you douchbags, but i want a house and a car just like you asshole that i hate have"
5 years later.......
stupid greedy american asshat: "hey mr pakistan guy. we fucked up. this isnt really working. we need our jobs back. best of luck going back to that
poverty thing again. sorry we blew you and bailed before you popped"
mr pakistan guy: "triple death to america. you guys are total dicks. im gonna stop voting for people that dont openly want to kill you"
anyway........
so where are those jobs you ask? why arnt americans working again?
heres why.......
you push a pebble down a hill, run as far as you can and jump in front of it your not gonna get hit by a pebble
outsourcing was one of the first in an extremely long line of shitty decisions that bush choose to reward (of course the mortgage and financial
deregulation was another one. his bullshit tax cuts for the 2%ers....as well as his life sized versions of call of fucking duty part one and two).
bottom line is the damage is done. they ripped a huge chunk out of the american employment pool and now those jobs cant exist here or in
india/pakistan/where ever. the demand on the consumption side isnt there anymore
and if you think outsourcing lowered costs for the consumer think again
take auto insurance for example. every single year that industry has jacked itself up like a six all the while sending all their CSR jobs overseas.
you arnt seeing the savings
the only industry i can think of that maybe can claim to be saving consumers in this country money is personal tech items. yes cell phones and such
are way more complicated then they used to be, but on the flip....that shits getting more expensive (beyond what inflation should be in a responsible
economy) too. perhaps the argument can be made that it would be a lot more with out the manufacturing done over there, but based on other industries
id say thats unlikely
out souring is a way for top level management and shareholders to pocket addition profit, all the while sucking the life out of families and
communities all over the country......nothing more nothing less
honestly the fact that you can insinuate that ANYBODY is benefiting from outsourcing aside from the rich asshole that have scorched the earth of this
great fucking land is totally insane
outsourcing benefits NOBODY and its a ginat fucking insult to everybody that has a friend/loved one/etc that lost a house or a job or a car or
anything because their job got bounced
again, fuck this show and fuck NBC
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well put Spyderdog.
I refuse to watch this piece of shit show just as a matter of principle.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by spyderdog
| Quote: | Originally posted by barc0debaby
There is not a single person here that does not benefit from outsourced jobs.
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bull the fuck shit
heres how you do it.....
stop giving tax breaks to shitty companies to take their jobs over seas so they can more easily give hand jobs to their high ups and their share
holders. tax the fuck out of them and essentially force them to play ball with the american labor market
give tax breaks to companies of a certain size or larger that keep their jobs here.
i have no fucking idea how you can say outsourcing benefits the people here.
first off, EVERYBODY HATES DEALING WITH CSRS THAT CANT SPEAK FUCKING ENGLISH. it means your calls take longer, which means your business runs less
efficiently, and you customer service index goes down causing customers to look elsewhere with their ever dwindling dollar. in addition you have to
deal with language barrier type mistake which again, hurt your efficiency, and your customer service index, and you have to hire more people (that
dont speak fucking english) to track down and fix the problems. NO BENEFITS THERE
now think for a second what our lives would look like if all the thousands of 50k + a year tech jobs hadnt had left. the stupifuck republicans like to
talk and talk about trickle down economics. that starts right here with this exact subject..... joe gets a 50K job. joe buys a house, and a new car,
and has to pay people to maintain, insure, up/downgrade, fuel, etc said purchases. joe is stimulating the economy every day he walks out the fucking
door in this country/county/community. mr. patel?? not so much (unless you own the fucking company). factor in your telecom costs and so on and you
really dont have a great deal there either
now, lets look at the CSR jobs. those are 10-15 dollar positions here. YOUNG PEOPLE have those jobs. when young people have jobs they stimulate the
economy via night life, retail spending, education, tech, they take care of children etc etc etc.......again IN THIS FUCKING COUNTRY. old people also
have those jobs which means less strain on medicare, and other entitlements because they are able to create addition income aside from social
security. this means less overworked emergency rooms and community urgent cares and more on private practice, which causes private insurance to spend
money, and it keeps higher paying jobs open and thriving in the private health care sector. again, the money stays here
you have large quantities of people spending money to survive and less on luxury items. the republican general philosophy works but only when directed
at the middle class, which is where they are currently and always will fail.
so where are we now then?? you dont seem to be hearing as many accents when you call the bank anymore do you?? theres a reason why.......
outsourcing doesnt work. it looks from the out set that theres cheap labor to be had and bush was handing out tax breaks for it like jasmine st claire
hands out the half and halfs. looks like a great deal!!
false
you factor in the drops in CSI, the tele costs, and the maintenance and quality control difficulties its not fucking worth it (also add in it doesnt
do a lick of shit if nobody can afford your products and services here either)
and look at it from a foreign relations angle.......
stupid greedy american asshat: "hey mr guy in pakistan who has been raised from birth to hate the west. poverty sucks huh?? heres a great new job! go
buy some shit and make a good life for yourself"
mr pakistan guy: "i hate you douchbags, but i want a house and a car just like you asshole that i hate have"
5 years later.......
stupid greedy american asshat: "hey mr pakistan guy. we fucked up. this isnt really working. we need our jobs back. best of luck going back to that
poverty thing again. sorry we blew you and bailed before you popped"
mr pakistan guy: "triple death to america. you guys are total dicks. im gonna stop voting for people that dont openly want to kill you"
anyway........
so where are those jobs you ask? why arnt americans working again?
heres why.......
you push a pebble down a hill, run as far as you can and jump in front of it your not gonna get hit by a pebble
outsourcing was one of the first in an extremely long line of shitty decisions that bush choose to reward (of course the mortgage and financial
deregulation was another one. his bullshit tax cuts for the 2%ers....as well as his life sized versions of call of fucking duty part one and two).
bottom line is the damage is done. they ripped a huge chunk out of the american employment pool and now those jobs cant exist here or in
india/pakistan/where ever. the demand on the consumption side isnt there anymore
and if you think outsourcing lowered costs for the consumer think again
take auto insurance for example. every single year that industry has jacked itself up like a six all the while sending all their CSR jobs overseas.
you arnt seeing the savings
the only industry i can think of that maybe can claim to be saving consumers in this country money is personal tech items. yes cell phones and such
are way more complicated then they used to be, but on the flip....that shits getting more expensive (beyond what inflation should be in a responsible
economy) too. perhaps the argument can be made that it would be a lot more with out the manufacturing done over there, but based on other industries
id say thats unlikely
out souring is a way for top level management and shareholders to pocket addition profit, all the while sucking the life out of families and
communities all over the country......nothing more nothing less
honestly the fact that you can insinuate that ANYBODY is benefiting from outsourcing aside from the rich asshole that have scorched the earth of this
great fucking land is totally insane
outsourcing benefits NOBODY and its a ginat fucking insult to everybody that has a friend/loved one/etc that lost a house or a job or a car or
anything because their job got bounced
again, fuck this show and fuck NBC |
Way to generalize Pakistan! Gayest statements ever made!
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You may not like the comments about Pakistan, but you can't honestly disagree with the point of the post itself.
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So I wrote about a decent response, basically surmising that change in the work place is inevitable, and someone has to be on the losing end.
Unfortunately that is America, etc etc. Prime example is India having 431 million people move out of poverty because they are gaining jobs, and the
knowledge to create a job infrastructure like Americans are accustomed to within their own country.
Then I went to delete something, not noticing my mouse cursor wasn't in this box, so my backspace went back a page and everything was gone.
Radicalism is able to breed in impoverished areas. If the standard of living in Death to America countries rose, those ideologies wouldn't hold nearly
as much weight, because that is anger redirected at us from a frustrated populous who feels absolutely powerless. Aside from the statistically
inescapable nutjobs in any population I don't heart any of the filthy rich Middle Eastern countries beating the war drums.
I'll give you tech jobs as being an unforeseen, I think how rapidly those jobs lost value shocked many, but those jobs depended on the fact that there
was so much new technology at the turn of the century. We got a jump start and it was only a matter of time before everyone else caught up.
Bottom line is outsourcing forces our workforce to evolve. My college is packed with people forced out of the job market who are getting
educated and developing new ways to create capital which in part helps benefit our countries economy. Part of the reason why our economy is in the
shitter is that the workforce stagnated during a period of unprecedented change. You can point to the policies of the nation over the past 20 years,
and yes they did not help, but this shift was going to happen regardless of policy. In a way this is the next Industrial Revolution, except the
western world is not benefiting this time. Change is painful and as we move through this new frontier in human history all I ask is don't be this
guy...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Discipline
You may not like the comments about Pakistan, but you can't honestly disagree with the point of the post itself. |
I think the point of the post is flawed from the get go. I don't disagree with the frustration of jobs leaving American shores, but the solution is
not what is proposed and furthermore, it's highly unlikely to ever happen. Businesses make money by cutting costs, and one of their favorite places to
cut costs in in labor. No business needs a tax incentive to move operations like call centers overseas, that's just good sense for their bottom line
in the long run. And it works, or it wouldn't be happening. The idea that it doesn't work for multi-national companies is bullshit and we all know it.
Furthermore, the point of my response was not even about the substance of the post, but rather the bullshit characiture of Pakistanis as all "America
haters." Well, first of all, we are giving Pakistanis ample reason to hate America when we bomb villages with drones and kill scores of innocents in
the process. Never once hitting the intended targets. And that's just recently. But I would venture to say that very few Pakistanis hate America in
the way spyderdog suggests, least of all a Pakistani getting a job in a fucking call center. That's just some needless ignorant shit to inject into a
semi-valid tirade.
And yes, Americans do benefit from outsourcing. Especially when it comes to retail and the products we buy that are manufactured overseas. It's the
same logic as to why Americans benefit from immigrant farm labor.
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i never offered any solutions here. there arnt any. i just pointed out problems, and why we should all be offended as fuck by this show
now as for my "broad generalizations of Pakistanis" i didnt make any of those either. no place in that rant anywhere did i say ALL people from
pakistan think we suck and want to kill us. i like pakistanis. i got to the liquor store all the time by my house thats owned by an Egyptian and a
Pakistani, and just hang out and shoot the shit. they are both super interesting dudes. i do that like at least twice a week
bottom line is what they got there is the same thing we got here. we have wacko extremists, just like they do. and here, just like there they do have
the ability to make policy decisions and influence public opinions of things
giving them the old switch a roo doesnt help the way we are viewed, and it gives the crazies a platform to stand on (just like fox news does for the
tea party)
i would with out a question say that probably the majority of pakistanis have a favorable opinion of americans. however once upon a time so did the
people of Afghanistan. my point is that bad decisions, and playing with peoples lives over there has consequences. its no different then here,
although the outcome of messing with a culture you choose not to really understand can put you in a pretty huge mess
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I liked the show. Thought it was funny when the guy ordered fake poo and vomit and she asked how he wanted to pay for it.
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^Yep. Show was funny. Not making light of Americans losing jobs really at all, but poking at the cultural differences and ludicrousness of Indians
selling pointless American crap for reasons they can't possibly understand and the awkwardness of a guy transplanted from the US to run the call
center. And Asha was super beautiful.
spyder, your whole tone with "mr pakistan guy" is a generalization, not some point about "they have extremists too." It certainly doesn't read that
way.
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I heard the show sucked and I thought form the commercials that this show was a really bad idea. Fake and a weak attempt at ironic humor.
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People still watch network sitcoms?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
People still watch network sitcoms? |
The Big Bang Theory, Yes. Anything else... no.
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^The Big Bang Theory is awesome! I'm still a watcher of the Office and 30 Rock.
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