Obscure jokes aside, another article on the export of high-tech jobs to
India, Russia and other countries appeared on Yahoo today:
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Peter Kerrigan encouraged friends to move to Silicon
Valley throughout the 1980s and '90s, wooing them with tales of lucrative
jobs in a burgeoning industry.
But he lost his network engineering job at a major telecommunications
company in August 2001 and remains unemployed. Now 43, the veteran
programmer is urging his 18-year-old nephew to stay in suburban Chicago and
is discouraging him from pursuing degrees in computer science or engineering.
"I told him, 'Unless you're planning to do this as a path to technical
sales, don't do it,'" said Kerrigan, who lives in Oakland. "He won't be
able to have a career designing and building stuff because all those jobs
have moved to India."
The rest of the story at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030713/ap_on_hi_te/tech_moves_offshore_2
At 10:47 AM 7/14/2003 -0700, Stan Sieler wrote:
>Re:
>Tom wrote:
> > >Oracle will continue to higher software engineers in the U.S. and
> elsewhere,
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^
> >
> > They ought to hire proofreaders.
>
>I can't tell if Tom's making an obscure joke (hiring proofreaders
>instead of *engineers*), or if he forgot that only in fixed font
>does a "^^^" make sense :)
>
>(For those using non-fixed fonts ... using fixed fonts, the "^^^" underlines
>the word "engineers", not the word "higher" :)
>
>Of course, the original writer could be trying to imply that
>Oracle is hanging (up or out-to-dry) U.S. engineers (i.e., interpreting
>the "higher" as "raising above" in some manner :)
>
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