> "Matthew Stitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Saw this on through the CNN.COM web site early today. This has got to > be a > > new low for outsourcing. > > > > http://www.kitv.com/money/16607424/detail.html > > > > > C.P. Vernooy posted on June 16, 2008 8:29 AM > > What's new? > I know of much more work, that is sent (electronically) to Texas and > Mexico to be processed there by cheaper hands. > I heard of Chinese callcenter workers that are trained in the different > US accents, to give the US caller the feeling he is talking to a fellow > countrymen. > As fast as you gather information from allover the world, work also > flows over the same network. > Be honest, you don't want to pay xx% more for a hamburger to assure a > local person is taking your order, do you? > > Kees.
But in the article McDonalds admits they aren't saving any costs by doing this. So what's the purpose? It seems to me that it's only reducing the employment opportunities for the Hawaiians. ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
