Upvote the percent of jobs that will be replaced by BTC in India and Indians rotating to the USA
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Because the higher echelons make the decisions and they are not kamikazees. So those with the least influence will be judged and offshored.
Additionally, there are less people at the higher levels and as a result the impact of moving them abroad will lead to less cost savings.
At Exxon we have 12 layers of Managers between Engineer/Technician and DW, muttering JLA, LPSA, NLI, QI, AAA, and other non-sense83 why cann't these jobs be shipped to India without hurting qualified Engineers in US that add value to the Company!
I trained my replacements when my previous role was outsourced. That was years and years ago and I still get contacted for questions. Either way more and more jobs are going to India. XOM gets what they pay for and in the end it is going to hurt them. You know and I know that the support we get from outsourced jobs is subpar. Americans will eventually their back on them.
@1lac+17AD0mrB “If we want their business, this is the prize (sic, price) to pay”
Sorry but don’t understand your logic. I thought capitalism was based on capturing business by providing goods or services at a competitive price. But you are saying we need to bribe them to get their business by moving our jobs to their country. Oh I see. You are right. That’s why we buy so much from China – it’s because of all the Chinese jobs which they moved into the U.S.
Sending jobs abroad is nothing new, EM just didnt do it extremely aggressively.
It started in the 90s, became very aggressive after the dot com bust, and one of the reasons the interest rates were reduced for so long because employment didnt recover and eventually led to the global financial crisis. It was one of the reasons why working in the tech industry was the worst possible thing at that time, enrollment in computer related fields collapsed at an incredibly place. It was also the reason that oil prices went to record highs because suddenly the foreign economies that gained all these offshored jobs became fast growing and needed a lot of oil creating the oil boom.
There was even a book written called "The world is flat" and it was a bestseller explaining how the offshoring process is the wave of the future and workers in the developed world better learn to compete against developing world low wage workers for their jobs.
I am surprised that it comes as such a shock to the people, it has been happening for so long. It seems that entire chapter of history was completely forgotten.
Ironically, Bush Jr was the prez. Ever noticed, severe recessions, crises, offshoring and republicans seem to go together. Just an observation.
Oi cowboys, before you start blaming the Indians, you all should rethink how much of an effort did you give to save your job? If not, you are better shoving a nice bbq rib up your tight a**hole in the comfort of your own house. DW knows who is working hard, aka tread lightly, big brother is watching you.
Most of the future demand growth is in developing world - India and China. Shouldn't surprise anyone if we grow there. If we want their business, this is the prize to pay. That's the other side of capitalism that has served us well so far. These countries will move on without us, and it is up to us whether to join and milk their growth or stay on the sidelines.
To ingratiate ourselves with Trump in 2017, we proudly declared in the media we were going to create all kinds of U.S. jobs. USA, USA! Of course, this referred to the future chemical plant (jointly owned with a middle eastern country) in South Texas, which one day will have a few hundred permanent employees. What we didn’t issue press releases about was our entrenched practice of outsourcing thousands of U.S. jobs to other countries. What’s coming up soon will be an exponential expansion of the outsourcing of our jobs to other countries. It’s not the fault of the workers in those other countries, as they are trying to better themselves. It does show the blatant hypocrisy of how our Company tries to portray itself to the American public.
: @nqd+17AD0mrB Lmao Your right
Is it them stealing the jobs or execs giving them the jobs? Wake up!! Surprising how far some people think.
My guess is that many people from India are using EM to come to US and then stay for good. Yep, EM has been the highway to the land of milk and honey.
The future of EM engineering:
BTC: Thank you for contacting the engineering help desk, please state the reason for your call.
Manufacturing site: “flange leak”
BTC: Transferring you now. You’re call is important to us and will be answered in the order in which it was received, please remain on the line. Your estimated wait time is 48 minutes. If you would like, you can leave a call back number. If you leave a call back number, you will not loose you place in line.
BTC, 48 minutes later: “I understand you have a flange leak, I will read the flange leak JLA to you”
Yeah. And the last 2 years of hiring like mad were just a mistake.
Remember all these changes were planned COVID just made them happen faster
It makes sense. Look what happened to IT industry. In low level software consultant jobs.
Hell to the no. Are they really planning to have Indians rotating to the USA to replace American workers? Why hasn’t this hit the Wall Street Journal yet?