Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math

[teech]

Adrianne Yamaki, a 32-year-old management consultant in New York, travels constantly and logs 80-hour workweeks. So to eke out more time for herself, she routinely farms out the administrative chores of her life — making travel arrangements, hair appointments and restaurant reservations and buying theater tickets — to a personal assistant service, in India.
Kenneth Tham, a high school sophomore in Arcadia, Calif., strives to improve his grades and scores on standardized tests. Most afternoons, he is tutored remotely by an instructor speaking to him on a voice-over-Internet headset while he sits at his personal computer going over lessons on the screen. The tutor is in India.
The Bangalore butler is the latest development in offshore outsourcing.
The first wave of slicing up services work and sending it abroad has been all about business operations. Computer programming, call centers, product design and back-office jobs like accounting and billing have to some degree migrated abroad, mainly to India. The Internet, of course, makes it possible, while lower wages in developing nations make outsourcing attractive to corporate America.
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[SubstituteTeacher]

Yes but when you reach one of these outsourcing companies in India the customer service rep speaks broken English and it is difficult to understand him.

[Tadpole of HypnoToad]

Bloody 'ell. Do those sorry sods not even know how to use a CALCULATOR? Either the one on the PC or the little $3 plastic model?!!

Okay, it's best to know even the rudimentary equations. It's sad even those are not being taught anymore, or if kids don't see the use for maths... (either by ignorance or seeing what's going on in the world, which would discourage them as well...)

Gee, and we don't even need teachers anymore. Offshore those jobs too.

Things are a mess and it's only going to get worse unless somebody steps in and puts things back on track.

[Nanette]

:SoapBox: Tadpole, I just don't see that happening. They are going to keep outsourcing till there is absolutely nothing left here. They are even outsourcing some medical testing to India, such as reading Xrays etc. There is no end in site.

I don't seen the government doing anything about it either. Like they say, "it's a global economy you know!"

[teech]

Bloody 'ell. Do those sorry sods not even know how to use a CALCULATOR? Either the one on the PC or the little $3 plastic model?!!

Okay, it's best to know even the rudimentary equations. It's sad even those are not being taught anymore, or if kids don't see the use for maths... (either by ignorance or seeing what's going on in the world, which would discourage them as well...)

Gee, and we don't even need teachers anymore. Offshore those jobs too.

Things are a mess and it's only going to get worse unless somebody steps in and puts things back on track.


I hope you are kidding about that teacher comment :fist: or the next post/smilie will be worse:SHF::rofl:

[Tadpole of HypnoToad]

:SoapBox: Tadpole, I just don't see that happening. They are going to keep outsourcing till there is absolutely nothing left here. They are even outsourcing some medical testing to India, such as reading Xrays etc. There is no end in site.

I don't seen the government doing anything about it either. Like they say, "it's a global economy you know!"

And then what will they do with us, I wonder...

[Nanette]

That is a thought that frightens me.

[Tadpole of HypnoToad]

I hope you are kidding about that teacher comment :fist: or the next post/smilie will be worse:SHF::rofl:

I was being sarcastic; I apologize for the miscommunication. It's just sad, the state of offshoring, and then the glut of media articles that find ways to blame today's youth as being the problem. (I posted a link to a CBS News article that truly defies description...)

[Tadpole of HypnoToad]

That is a thought that frightens me.


Well, for budget strapped cities, counties, and states, and all their excuses to lower taxes, just getting postcards in the mail for referendums over proposals to add to or replace jails is conspiracy theory-inducing.

So I just don't try to think about it. Nothing that can be done either way.

[Nanette]

Well, I do think about it. A lot! And I am NOT going to be a sheeple and go quietly into the sunset!