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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: Outsourcing to the Max | |
 **TOO CUTE…we read in the San Diego Business Journal that fast food
outlets are seeking ways to cut personnel costs. One way is to eliminate that person with the headset on at the drive thru window who takes your order. Outsource. You drive up to the menu board and punch a button and a voice with an Indian accent takes your order. That person is actually in India. Your order is then punched into a computer in New Deli (huh?) and shows up in the kitchen of Burgers R Us where the food stack is composed and delivered to you at the “next window.” How great is this? Damn folks, this is getting downright ridiculous. All the terrorist have to do to disrupt a major portion of the US economy is take out a sweatshop call center in New Delhi.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:27 am Post subject: | |
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Tell me how this works. We received a box of tea during the holidays. The side of the box said the actual tea was from the USA but it was packaged in Sri Lanka.
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Can you imagine how little they pay those Sri Lankans if it's cheaper to send tea there to be packaged and then send it back here to be sold? Day-Um!!!
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I'm thinking of outsourcing my daily bowel movements to Sri Lanka. Some poor Sri Lankan can probably do twice the output for half the pleasure. If I do outsource, will they come back all nicely packaged and stamped "Made in Canada, Packaged in Sri Lanka"? Or is that only for tea?
This is getting ridiculous 
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Reminds me of one of my favorite movie quotes...
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LMAO!!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:52 am Post subject: | |
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Damn if I didn't find another outsourcing one. This is from the San Francisco Bay Guardian in their annual Off-Guard awards or "Offies" given to public figures for saying really stupid or bizarre sh... er...stuff in unguarded moments.
Blessed are the globalizers, for they shall make a fast buck Catholic priests in the United States, claiming they're suffering from overwork, have begun outsourcing ritual prayers (which parishioners pay for) to low-cost priests in India. |
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Yes, I liked that one too, Nofsdad. I posted it in your thread back in June. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: | |
| Sorrry about nthat. That was about the time I went back in the hospital and then didn't come back until last month. | |