Oh, man, this guy just doesn’t get it….
Okay, so I was checking my links and updating my link to A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator and saw another blog on the same site called Viewpoint from India: An IT Outsourcing Blog. Out of morbid curiosity, I went to look. The poor buy was complaining that he didn’t get enough response from his blog. My first thought was, “Man, this guy doesn’t get it! He’s the freakin’ enemy! Of course no one wants to comment on his blog!!” But, then, I actually read some of his earlier posts. Turns out, he’s afraid of all the same things we are: bad economy, a weak job market, and, yes, even outsourcing. Of course, he’s worried about the Chinese, but he’s also worried about the US pulling work back. I can’t say I’m sorry about that last bit, but I do understand his fear.
But, still, in the very same post that he whines about not enough readership, he also tells his readers to, essentially, suck it up and accept that this is the new way of doing global business. He says, essentially, that he and others like him will undercut us as much as they can for as long as they can to improve their way of life and too bad if we don’t like it. Not a friendly, warm, welcoming blog author, is he? And, not real big on who his potential readers are, either.
Now, I know that outsourcers read my blog, based on semi-anonymous comments that they have left, apparently out of cowardice. But, I write how I feel anyway, because my target audience is other guys like me who are constantly on the verge of losing our jobs to guys like them!
Here’s the thing, we determine the global economy. If we make it too expensive in terms of good will for companies to outsource overseas, then we change the global economy in a way that we like. That, gentle readers, is the way economics works. We, the consumers, are, in fact, a market force. How we feel and how we prefer that companies do business is an important factor in global markets. So, if we’re tired of losing jobs to offshoring, are we wrong to change that? Even to legislate a change? NO! We are acting as a market force! Welcome to the real global economy, buddy. I do have a say in how well, or even if, outsourcing works. And so do the rest of you. Either way you feel, make your voice heard. It’s your right as a participant in that oft cited global economy, so don’t forget to exercise it.
