Payback

I like some American phrases, they can be so apt in so few words, despite being initially obsure.

For example: "Payback is a motherfucker".

(BTW this post is NSFW).

There's an example below. Jobs get outsourced to Ireland. Then they get outsourced to India. Celtic tiger my arse.

Of course the jobs won't stay in India. They'll migrate to even cheaper sources of educated labour in a few years. In fact, it's already happening.

There's another problem with Indian labour. It's getting far too educated. At the moment there are master graduates in engineering who are competing to get into call centres, as helpdesk monkeys.

And these aren't graduates from former polys in Northern England, the sort who can't design a second-order feedback system or draw Nyquist diagrams. No, these graduates could beat the pants off a lot of UK and US graduates and could probably design state-variable feedback systems if they weren't answering the phone advising Westerners on how to how to switch on their PCs.


Immediate start required for project manager with 3 years experience who will be looking after the transition of a call centre from Ireland to India. This will involve migrating 20 people from 3 outsourced call centres to an existing Microsoft outsourced call centre in India. The project is in the implementation phase, meaning that the design and project plan are already in place.