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>nukular submarines

Pretty sure those will never happen... No such thing as nukular anything, yet ;-)

I agree with Thom, I've seen the same outsourcing thing happen over and over in every IT organization... Teaching your job to someone that barely speaks english leaves a special taste in your mouth... The catch though, is that 2 years down the road - invariably - the outsourced staff shows itself to be either incompetent, raise their prices, too slow, too buggy, don't deliver as advertised, or "All of the above". Customers (external or internal) get pissed off, trend is reversed... No matter, the genius in charge already got his bonus.... Same with customer service with an indian accent - works for some, usually a big no-no internally.

But you can now reasonably "speak" to a phone (called your bank lately?) with almost any inquiry and cut the middleman quite effectively. No questions things are changing, good luck to our kids as far as figuring out a career plan... Gotta think of stuff that are hard to outsource (ironically I went into IT for a big hospital thinking no way these guys would want remote support, has to be on site and quick, right ? .... 6 month into the job, they are also outsourcing ;-)