Title: Test messsage
Mark,
> My nephew is in charge of the computer systems for a university in the
> Philippines and makes $3 an hour. The multi-nationals have no loyalty and if
> the Indians started asking for too much money, they would transfer their
> customer service to Manila or Cebu, where the English is better as well.
This really is a complicated issue for all of us.
Should we really resent the loss of jobs domestically, or should we be
glad to get more value more cheaply as consumers?
Then, there's the not-so-selfish conundrum ... What are the
consequences of this "race-to-the-bottom" mentality of sourcing
everything as cheaply as possible? Are we comfortable with these
consequences?
Now, have a look at these pictures:
http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
How cheap does "cheap enough" have to be?
Sp
Sean Phelan
http://www.sqcn.com - Web Development
& Management by Sequoia Consulting
(321)698-7987
On 5/4/2010 7:13 PM, Mark Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:31:15 pm Sean Phelan wrote:
Mark,
I Read somewhere that those customer service people who you get on tech
support all have computer program degrees and are getting $2 an hour.
They are also working night jobs because they are in In India.
That's more-or-less accurate, although I'm not sure how many call-center
workers have IT degrees.
The actual IT graduates get entry-level programming jobs at between
$2/hr and $4/hr ... the good ones can get $1500-$2K/month or so, once
they get established.
Here's the kicker, though ... the guy I work with over there pays
$7+/sq-ft for a 2000-sq-ft office in Chandigarh.
Just to put that in perspective - that's EXACTLY what I'd pay for the
same size space in Melbourne, FL.
In other words ... their realestate->salary ratio is 10 times higher
than ours.
Sp
Sean Phelan
VIRTUssist.com - Outsourced Administrative, Marketing, and Secretarial
support <http://www.VIRTUssist.com/>
http://www.sqcn.com - Web Development & Management by Sequoia
Consulting
(321)698-7987
I was told that the biggest qualification problem those centers have is
language. They turn down most of the applicants because they think that their
English isn't strong enough.
My nephew is in charge of the computer systems for a university in the
Philippines and makes $3 an hour. The multi-nationals have no loyalty and if
the Indians started asking for too much money, they would transfer their
customer service to Manila or Cebu, where the English is better as well.
Mark
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