<p>good grief- ENOUGH already!!! Can we please pull the feeding tube on this thread??? If I said the sky was blue, sounds like I’d get an argument there too. (Please someone- don’t post about the lack of color of the gasses in the atmosphere-- you know what I mean… I assume.)</p>
<p>jym626, if i remember correctly are you a mom who i called “totally cool”??
(no, i did NOT dig your post.)
in that post, we were talking about how parents should (and cool parents do) talk “with”, not talk “to”.</p>
<p>I am saying (or trying to say) this in an objective and no-offensive manner as possible, that you have seemed to talk “to” alot in this topic. rhonda perhaps did react somewhat sensitively. however i wouldnt blame her, after all many of replies on this topic were toward india and indian countries negatively. (and perhaps you have to be very careful with those jokes and whatnot online, because noone can hear your tone)</p>
<p>also i dont think, you made any apology. (i would not go any further, please reread your post again)</p>
<p>“Before my own past posts are examined”, I am a Korean living in Florida for a pretty long period of time. (you can perhaps see that i dont speak perfect english and whatnot) i guess i might be a little biased since i’m in a similar situation as rhonda is. but i dont think i am biased that much tough :P</p>
<p>Anyway, let’s drop it like it’s hot. you know…</p>
<p>p.s : jym, sorry if you’re not a mom i am talking about; disregard my post.</p>
<p>duh-
Thank you for your post, and yes, I am the “cool” mom. (The trip went GREAT, by the way, until my younger s. broke his collarbone 
) </p>
<p>I had to read your first sentence, the one in the parentheses, a few times before I realized that by your saying you did not “dig” my post, you meant that you didn’t click on my screenname and select “view previous posts”. When I first read your sentence, I thought you meant it as if you did not “like” my post (as in the use of the word “dig” a few years back. This is a good example of how things can be read differently on the receiving end than it was intended on the sending end. </p>
<p>I appreciate your feedback and will take it to heart, but, in all fairness, kindness is a 2 way street. I hear you when you say that you feel I talked “to”, but I felt quite the same. I would like, as I said days ago, to politely agree to disagree and <em>move on</em>. We should all be nice to each other, and set a good example for our children. There are certainly bigger fish to fry.</p>
<p>I was just browsing through this thread, and wanted to comment that several years ago, 60 Minutes or some other program, did an expose on sales and marketing calls done from prisons, by the incarcerated. Apparently this is more prevalent in some states than others.</p>
<p>I wonder what location they say they are at.</p>
<p>I have 2 tel. nos. for a certain “American” company. The one tel.no. leads me to their U.S. customer service, and as soon as I state the nature of my problem, i am told that this question can only be answered on a pay-by-the-minute basis, while the other tel.no. takes me across many oceans to fake American names with fake American accents, who patiently walk me through the problem, and invariably sort it out.</p>
<p>Guess who I call more often?</p>
<p>Btw, I am the only true American here, 100% Cherokee, lol.</p>
<p>Here is a surprising fact: Foreign corporations outsource $61.4B in jobs INTO THE UNITED STATES. US corporations outsource $43.5B in jobs to foreign countries. This means that outsourcing contributes almost an EXTRA $20B in jobs here in the US. If outsourcing were to stop, the US would be hurt the most.</p>
<p>Here are the facts for each country:</p>
<p>India:</p>
<p>Insourced (to US from India): $18.6B
Outsourced (to India from US): $11.8B</p>
<p>Singapore:</p>
<p>Insourced: $13B
Outsourced: $9.2B</p>
<p>China:</p>
<p>Insourced: $10.4B
Outsourced: $8B</p>
<p>… and on and on.</p>
<p>It just depends on the industry segment, Big growth ones for US, and the net change in jobs over the next 10 years:</p>
<p>Education and health: 32% job increase
Professional and Business Services: 30%
Information: 19%
Transportation and Warehousing: 22%</p>
<p>…and on and on.</p>
<p>Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Internation Money Fund, reported in Wired magazine</p>
<p>Correct me please if incorrect. Wasn’t America (USA) originally colonialized as an outsourcee to the then super powers, Spain then later Great Britain & France?</p>
<p>I agree with absolutely noone on this thread. I don’t like dealing with people on any level whenever I am doing business transactions. I prefer machines to “talk” to. (ie automated ticketing, ATMs, Internet bill pay, etc.) People in general to me are idiots. The way to succeed in the future is just to spout out cool business taglines like: Step up to the plate, think outside the box, or I am an asset to this organization. I agree that Internet time should be limited to 10 minutes a day. I spend way too much time online.</p>
<p>jym I’d like to post about that but what with decisions and stuff I can’t get myself to, I definitely will sometime…</p>
<p>Interesting stats digmedia</p>
<p>What do you feel about outsourcing of more advanced funcitons than customer service (India)/manufacturing (China), like R&D, or as was suggested, ‘medical tourism’</p>
<p>Astrix-
Thank you. I will look forward to your perspective, comments, experiences, etc. after “D” day. Good luck!</p>