I was going to write something about the report I heard this morning about the balance of outsourcing\/insourcing, but I thought just pasting an IM conversation would be better.<\/p>\n
I was going to write something about the report I heard this morning about the balance of outsourcing\/insourcing, but I thought just pasting an IM conversation would be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:19:15 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Did you hear Morning Edition
\nthis morning?<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:19:23 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Yup. <\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:19:29 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>What about it?<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:19:38 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>The jobs thing?<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:19:54 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>They did a story about foreign
\nfirms that hire American workers.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:20:00 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Yeah, I heard that.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:20:01 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Like Kyocera.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:20:23 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>and Ingenico.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:20:34 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I’m almost to the point of
\ngrudgingly admitting that offshoring isn’t a bad
\nthing.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:20:52 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Although, they didn’t have
\nany numbers from last year yet.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:21:18 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Which is when they really
\nstarted doing this "help center in India" thing,
\nisn’t it?<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:21:43 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Oh, is that right?<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:21:47 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I missed that part.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:22:06 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Yeah, it was subtle. But I
\nactually heard the report twice, and caught it the
\nsecond time.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:22:26 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>All I remember is that foreign
\ncompanies hired "almost enough" American
\nworkers to completely make up for the number of
\njobs that were offshored.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:22:47 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Yeah, they quoted
\nnumbers from 1986 to 2002 or something like
\nthat.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:23:05 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>The numbers were pretty
\nclose. Within a few hundred thousand, anyway.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:23:55 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>But Bush is a lying liar, so
\nI highly suspect anything he says. I’m withholding
\njudgement until I hear numbers from last year.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:24:09 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Was Bush the source?<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:24:32 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I believe it was his
\ncomments in a campaign speech that initiated the
\nreport. It started with a quote from him.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:24:39 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>The numbers came from
\nthe Commerce department.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:25:16 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Whose Secretary is a Bush
\nappointee.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:25:33 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>a-HA.<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:26:02 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>They coulda’ cooked
\nthose numbers like a swedish chef.<\/font>
\nglenn5<\/a><\/font> (9:27:04 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Bork bork bork!<\/font>
\nelectricrocket<\/a><\/font> (9:27:13 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>*crash*<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"