Originally posted by dmoolenaar
High school graduates really know what they're talking about - scoop of the century! 
They're young, but they're not stupid. Every day in the news they see thousands of layoffs from all of the major corporations, and read about the double-digit unemployment rates in the IT field, and decide that's not the place to be. Pretty smart if you ask me.
There's a huge difference between "technically educated" and "technically skilled". Nearly all the skilled people I've worked with in the last 5 years are still employed. Those who's companies folded were quickly snatched up by other companies. I also know some software folks who lost cushy jobs with large contractors who were employed only due to the tech boom and were really under qualified for their position or responsibilities.
This is simply a means of rationalizing outsourcing, and making managers feel better about themselves for it, or explaining it away to the ignorant masses: the myth that it's only the Johnny-come-latelies that are getting laid off.
Wrong.
I
personally know people with many years of IT experience and very current skillsets who have been laid off and unable to find work. Peolpe who were doing this stuff before the boom. You're actually worse off with a large technical skillset, because you're now overqualified and 'too expensive' - go on, ask me how I know
And Shiva help you if you're over 40 and looking for a job in the IT field.
Now that we've addressed one of the IT myths, we're still left with all of the
other job types that are being outsourced.
"When they outsourced the programmers, I didn't speak up because I wasn't a programmer
When they outsourced the support people, I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a support person
"When they outsourced the accountants, I didn't speak up, because I wasn't an accountant.
When they outsourced the (your position here) there was nobody to speak up for me"
There will be no economic recovery until there are jobs. With 2,000,000+ jobs send to India so far, we're headed in the wrong direction, fast.
But the most important agenda of the GWB junta
today is whether or not gay guys can get married.
Outsourcing taken to it's logical conclusion:
