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David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 978
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 04:18 pm: |    |
Due to our large workload and inability to find enough staff, the firm I work for has "farmed" out drafting work to India!
Has anybody else experienced this outsourcing? |
Richard Baxter, AIA, CSI
Senior Member
Username: rbaxter
Post Number: 68
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 04:23 pm: | |
Our firm is doing the same thing. We are also farming out to Puerto Rico. They aren't farming out any of my work though. |
Bob Woodburn
Senior Member
Username: bwoodburn
Post Number: 225
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 05:18 pm: | |
Yes, our firm (but not this office) has been having CAD work done in India for about a year or more.
We've probably all heard the phrase "all chiefs and no indians" -- be careful what you wish for (or complain about...) |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 980
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 05:46 pm: | |
So all of our manufacturing is in China and all of our service industry is in India. Remind me what we do here in the USA? |
Robin E. Snyder
Senior Member
Username: robin
Post Number: 163
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 05:57 pm: | |
sue |
Ronald L. Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: specman
Post Number: 616
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 08:59 pm: | |
Spoken like a true lawyer to be. |
Liz Knight, CSI CCS (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 02:11 pm: | |
On the news there was something about jobs that are now coming back from overseas! |
Ron Beard CCS
Senior Member
Username: rm_beard_ccs
Post Number: 258
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 04:42 pm: | |
Question : What is the truest definition of Globalization?
Answer : Princess Diana's death.
Question : How come?
Answer :
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car
with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, followed closely by
Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by a Scottish/German using Bill Gates's technology, and you're probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by
Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....
That, my friends, is Globalization! |
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: bunzick
Post Number: 841
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 01:43 pm: | |
Yes. Reminds me of my conversation in Spanish with an Italian women in a Chinese restaurant in France a few years ago (true). |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 983
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 05:04 pm: | |
Thankfully spec writing will never be outsourced! |
Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS
Senior Member
Username: awhitacre
Post Number: 718
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 05:55 pm: | |
or the conversation I overheard in Italy between a Turkish woman and a French woman speaking in English (their common language) about how to take a train to some location in Germany. |
Ron Beard CCS
Senior Member
Username: rm_beard_ccs
Post Number: 260
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 03:27 pm: | |
So, John, were you trying to pick her up? Any luck? <g> <g> |
James M. Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CDT, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: jsandoz
Post Number: 28
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 08:09 am: | |
Even though it is almost a decade old "The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Understanding Globalization" by Thomas Friedman gives an excellent overview of the subject (ISBN: 0374192030). |
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: bunzick
Post Number: 844
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 08:59 am: | |
Ron: Actually, I was there with my wife and a bunch of other friends, and there were additional conversations in English and French all going on at the same time. |
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