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ironymaideni work for a rapidly expanding business. so this morning, since my workspace is closest to the entrance, i helped a new temp connect with the office manager. he had driven up from Olympia to Fisherman's Terminal for a clerical temp job. apparently those new jobs in the latest reports aren't available all over Western WA. we're crazy busy here, and the sweet, enthusiastic guy who maintains our database and does our IT work is bubbling over because the data entry is being outsourced so that he can devote all his time to bein' a professional computer geek.
at lunch i found out that his data entry is being outsourced to a small team in India. they make $4 a day.
when i was in high school i wrote an essay in favor of free trade that helped to get me into the Pennsylvania Governor's School for International Studies. i envioned a world where every country could specialize and transportation and communication would be the industries that held it all together, to everyone's benefit. i never imagined that trade would encompass the less tangible commodities. i grew up in a politically conservative culture. there was always a belief in the idea that letting business evolve in an unrestricted fashion to its advantage would eventually improve the lot of all Americans. so we wouldn't make and build things anymore...we would move out of the factories and into the the office and make and build information. the evidence was even there in PA, where the steel plants were closed, but the call centers and the Wal-Mart warehouses had arrived. the evil unions had driven the manufacturers into the ground, but diligent displaced workers could have a job at half the money with scant benefits in an office. so that was a step up. everyone would just get more education, and then the jobs would appear.
the biggest call center in C's hometown has moved to India now. so increases the number of Wal-Mart workers with bachelor's degrees, if they can get in at Wal-Mart.
at lunch i found out that his data entry is being outsourced to a small team in India. they make $4 a day.
when i was in high school i wrote an essay in favor of free trade that helped to get me into the Pennsylvania Governor's School for International Studies. i envioned a world where every country could specialize and transportation and communication would be the industries that held it all together, to everyone's benefit. i never imagined that trade would encompass the less tangible commodities. i grew up in a politically conservative culture. there was always a belief in the idea that letting business evolve in an unrestricted fashion to its advantage would eventually improve the lot of all Americans. so we wouldn't make and build things anymore...we would move out of the factories and into the the office and make and build information. the evidence was even there in PA, where the steel plants were closed, but the call centers and the Wal-Mart warehouses had arrived. the evil unions had driven the manufacturers into the ground, but diligent displaced workers could have a job at half the money with scant benefits in an office. so that was a step up. everyone would just get more education, and then the jobs would appear.
the biggest call center in C's hometown has moved to India now. so increases the number of Wal-Mart workers with bachelor's degrees, if they can get in at Wal-Mart.
