In article , Icebound wrote:
...mmm.... 300-thousand jobs per year leaving the high-paid US to low-paid
third world countries suggests to me the labour IS being treated as a
commodity.

And many of the outsourcers are discovering the labour wasn't quite the
commodity they thought it was.

Sadly, there are too many Dilbert-style PHBs in management.

As a defensive measure, I've shifted from a pure software development
job to one that requires at least some on-site presence (someone has to
install hardware and pull cables) instead of waiting like a lamb to the
slaughter as the PHBs jump on the outsourcing bandwagon.

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