I have a friend who had to move back to India. He got a job in Southern India working for Alcatel for their outsourced TAC. They will be relieving a significant amount of work from five other global Alcatel TACs.
So there you go. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer" To: Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:45 PM Subject: RE: Technology, Certification, Skill Sets, and Loo [7:70915] > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of > > n rf > > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:39 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Technology, Certification, Skill Sets, and Looking > > [7:70816] > > > > > > > > > > The dark side is that technology changes, and has a way of > > becoming > > > more appliance like, meaning that what as skilled labor > > yesterday is > > > out of the > > > box tomorrow. Thin about it. All you folks who are AVVID > > > experts and > > > therefore in high demand. How long before AVVID is nothing > > more > > > than another > > > PBX, and routers self configure for QoS? Think the telco > > > employee who drives > > > the truck and installs your DSL is making 100K? not likely. > > > > There's an even more ominous trend afoot and what is ironic is > > that > > network engineers may be actively sowing the seeds of their own > > destruction. One of the holy grails of networking is to foster > > telecommuting and virtual offices > > - the idea was that through ever cheaper and more reliable > > bandwidth > > which enables ever more powerful and complete networks, you may > > never > > need to step foot in your office - you can replicate your > > entire office > > from your house using videoconferencing, unified > > communications, remote > > control of complete systems, and so forth. Sounds great, > > right? You > > don't waste time in a rush-hour commute, you can work while > > still > > watching the kids, and in short the quality of life of your > > employeer's > > improves dramatically - so there's no downside, right? > > > > Uh, well, not exactly. Virtual-offices sounds great when you > > realize > > that it frees you from geographical barriers until you realize > > that it > > also frees your employers from geographical barriers too. > > Specifically, > > employers can now hire workers from anywhere in the world, and > > we all > > know exactly what they're going to do - they're going to hire > > guys who > > are a hundred times more skilled than you but are wiling to > > work for a > > fraction of your salary. > > Guys from India, China, Russia, and places like that. Instead > > of > > hiring a > > bunch of high-priced American network engineers to run your > > NOC, you can > > just hire a bunch of guys from India on the cheap to watch over > > your > > network remotely, and just hire an American cable-monkey on > > minimum wage > > to do all the physical stuff like checking cables and racking > > gear. Or > > let's say you need a complete network design. Again, why hire > > an > > expensive American network designer when you can just send your > > design > > requirements to China and get back some well-done Visio's and > > router > > configs, and you can videoconference/whiteboard/IM your remote > > designer > > and hash out all the details to your heart's content, all for > > cheap. > > Sure, that might seem harsh, but surely you can see that if > > companies > > can use these tactics to save money, you know they will. > > > > Now don't get me wrong. I'm not a Luddite and I'm not a > > nativist. > > Truth be told, a lot of those guys from India, China, and > > Russia are > > smarter and work harder than many Americans. > > A lot of them aren't guys. They are women. In a lot of countries (certainly > not all but a lot) there's way less prejudice against women being in > high-tech. Of more importance, there aren't assumptions made in primary > (elementary) and secondary (high school) that girls are "bad at math." > Instead, girls are encouraged, with an understanding that they tend to be > better at many aspects of math. > > Why don't you get involved in your local high school? Encourage more girls > (and boys) to go into computer science. One major aspect of the problem that > you describe is that fewer and fewer Amserican students are studying > engineering and computer science. > > Part of the problem is the prejudice against females. A bigger problem is > that our schools suck. The government spends our money attacking other > cultures instead of developing our own. > > Priscilla > > > All you have to > > do is go > > any American high school and remark on just how lazy and > > unmotivated the > > kids are today. In this new global economy, service-oriented > > work is > > going to go to wherever the sharpest, cheapest, and > > hardest-working > > minds of the world happen to be. That's the way free-market > > capitalism > > works. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=70939&t=70915 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
