Miami Herald outsourcing production jobs to India

Understand. Was being gentle, towards those in Deep Denial.

 

I found out about a lot of this a few months back.
McClatchey was shifting customer service people around and decided that outside of a major call center in Miami (which would hold a vast majority of the U.S. customer service people) the rest would be doing so from overseas.
The day we talked about it at my last shop, I overheard a woman outside telling someone on the other end of a phone call that she was offered to move from where we were -- a fairly cheap part of the country -- to Miami -- one of the more expensive spots around.
Just to make it better, again I overheard, to accept the transfer instead of being outright out of job, she also had to accept a pay cut.
I was a little ticked off, and it wasn't even my situation.

 

I'm reminded of a Doonesbury strip from a few years back. In it, an engineer outsourced his own job to India without telling his boss. The gist of it, as he explained it to Mike Doonesbury, is that he e-mailed tasks to a guy in India who worked for 40 cents on the dollar, and that guy sent the finished work back overnight. The American engineer pocketed the difference between his salary and what he was paying the guy in India.

"Isn't your boss suspicious at all," Doonesbury asked.

"No, no," the engineer replied. "I just insert a mistake or two before I submit the work to my boss. He can't tell the difference."

 

Ah, the wonderful, treat-people-right chain that McClatchy is supposed to be. Guess that ship's now sailed.

 

Where is Heath Ledger when you really need him to shove something up a Gyllenhaal's ass?

 

As soon as they can teach the 8-year-old sweatshop workers to proofread, it's a done deal.

 

brilliant

 

Well, unless they're headed to New Delhi, too, sounds like they're getting the ultra-violent Bootsian treatment.

 

Try the towns that used to be French colonies

 

Well, then. That settles it. the Miami Herald and Dell can ride the same train to hell.

 

Fed Ex has done it, and they screw up everything they touch.

Wish Vegas had taken all of Fred Smith's money at the 21 tables.

 

As much as I complain about our ad and production departments, it's always nice to know that things could be much, much worse.