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I'm in IT, 3 years ago I was laid off from Sprint's network consulting division, then I went to another company that did batches of lay-offs for the 2 years that I was there, fortunately I left that one voluntarily recently, hopefully that means someone else there will keep their job.

The worst part is that the jobs that the last company were removing were lost to India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Manilla... Fortunately the support from these locations was suffering for several different reasons, so Cisco has begun rethinking this move.

If things keep going the way they are anything that can be done over a phone will be done from outside this country where it's much cheaper. Fortunately I've moved on to something that requires physical proximity.

Not only that, but these days, in IT, at least, to get decent raises you usually need to change companies, but at the same time companies want people who don't move around much.

Things are just not what they used to be.