I know about outsourcing, but this is unbelievable
According to reports, Dell Computer Corporation is planning to move its entire manufacturing operation overseas in the next 18 months. What? It was not enough that they had to render their tech support and customer service user-impossible by sending them to India, but are now taking an entire American company and moving it away?
Jonathan W. writes:
I have noticed that recently, a substantial number of inept customer service representatives that I speak to on the phone sound Hispanic. Being that many of them are probably affirmative action hires intended to stem the threat of Title VII and EEOC lawsuits, perhaps companies like Dell have decided that they’d rather pay a very small amount of money for incompetent Indian representatives than pay a lot of money for incompetent Hispanic representatives.James P. writes:
Dell knows that Obama is going to tax the bejeezus out of them, is it really a surprise that they’re leaving? Any corporation that can leave, will leave. The only people who will be left behind are the poor suckers like Joe the Plumber who can’t relocate their business to India.LA replies:
The two above comments, which came in within a minute of each other, together offer a chilling picture of possible imminent American decline under the power of leftism: forcing businesses to hire incompetents in the name of racial equality, plus imposing higher taxes on the productive and successful.Rohan Swee writes:
I think we should, in the interests of clarity, avoid referring to “American” corporations. They are stateless entities whose interests coincide less and less with the interests of the nation and its citizens. At present they may promote the fiction that they are “American” companies, for the purpose of free-riding on what remains of the wealth, legal protections, and political stability of the U.S., to maintain access to public subsidy of their enterprises, and to delude the public with propaganda about “American competitiveness” while promoting policies that have nothing to do with the long-term prosperity, welfare, and competitiveness of the American nation, and that will in fact actively undermine those things.LA replies:
I would point out that while Dell now identifies itself as an international corporation it began in America and most of its manufacturing (though not of laptops) was in America. For the whole company to move abroad, including all its manufacturing, would be like GM or Ford moving its manufacturing abroad.Ray G. from Dearborn writes:
I’m a 20-year computer programmer and have always had an affinity for Dell. But if they do move completely out of this nation it’s another symptom of globalism which is essentially as I see it, excessive trade. The obsessive search for cheaper and cheaper labor even at the expense of hollowing out our country of heavy industry and the technical industry. Not only have are our technical (computer and engineering) jobs been moving to Asia, but the computer programming field has been flooded with “guest workers” from India and China. They rarely go home, instead they game the system and use the temporary work visa to stay permanently and sponsor their large families of relatives to come join them in this country. Elderly parents often are signed up for what is called Supplemental Social Security—another welfare program. Once again, it’s the immigration.LA replies:
I read the Noonan column. She’s very critical of McCain and Palin, but she doesn’t say she is going to vote for Obama. Her closing point is a plea for the freedom of conservatives to criticize the Republican party and its leaders. Her penultimate sentence sounds like a constant theme of VFR’s.Gintas writes:
I have watched Boeing slowly move things out of the Puget Sound region. About 10 years ago I realized that Boeing executives would move the whole thing lock stock and barrel to China in a New York minute if they could. The crown Jewels of Boeing’s commercial airline engineering and manufacturing were the wings, designing and building them. This was well-known within Boeing when the company was run by engineers. But engineers don’t run it anymore. Guess who has the know-how for building them for the new 787 (called the 7E7 in this article)? Japan, where they are now made.Gintas continues:
I’m not a Boeing employee, but I work for a software company and was on-site there for a couple of years. I know a number of Boeing employees of various stripes, the company’s engineering heart has been gutted and the whole workforce is demoralized. It used to be an engineering and manufacturing company, but now it’s just becoming another “systems integration” shell unit, where all the real engineering and manufacturing is done by others, and Boeing just does the final assembly. Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 17, 2008 10:00 AM | Send Email entry |