-->Guten Abend
An welchem Tag man auch nach Indien schaut, und in welcher indischen Zeitung auch immer man blättert, e i n Thema hat Dauerpräsenz: Auslagerung, Job-Diebstahl, deswegen schwer irritierte Amerikaner.
US' jobless target Indian techies
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2004 12:01:41 AM ]
WASHINGTON: The only good Indian engineer may be a dead Indian engineer. That’s the kind of toxic sentiment some American workers are beginning to express amid an increasingly vituperative debate on outsourcing.
In an unnerving insight into the anger and turmoil that is roiling the US job market, a columnist for Fortune who backed free trade has revealed that in the flood of hate mail he received, some American workers were irate enough to speak about Indians being killed over the issue of outsourcing.
''If an enraged laid-off American engineer were to go up to his Indian replacement, and shoot him dead, if I were on the jury the verdict would be ‘NOT GUILTY’,'' one laid off tech worker, wrote to Fortune ’s David Kirkpatrick.
The worker, a computer engineer laid off from a government agency in late 2002, said, ''I want to find a political party or movement that will try to save American jobs. I am ready to vote for the Communist Party, the Nazi Party, or whatever it takes. The system we have now is a disaster.''
While such sentiments might come from the extreme fringe, Kirkpatrick says he is ''disturbed to see barely concealed racism embedded in some angry replies directed at Indian workers in particular.''
Some writers suggested Kirkpatrick’s job be outsourced.
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