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Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

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http://gawker.com/here-are-some-enraging-facts-about-corporate-executives-1763344810

Hamilton Nolan continues to be the single worst writer in GMN employ.

What he doesn't know is that these jets are for company use as well. People at my company have been allowed to use the private jets to be flown back internationally in the cases of family emergency. So his botching about an executive flying to the funeral of his mother is, as usual, just a bunch of jealous whining.

Couple that with our CEO isn't even allowed to drive himself. I don't see this as a major problem.
 
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To be honest, he's spot on with this one.

If there's ever an industry that could use a little unionization it is the tech industry. Call me old but I'd rather give up the "free" lunches and the ping pong tables for the ability to go home at a decent hour every night and a little job security.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
To be honest, he's spot on with this one.

If there's ever an industry that could use a little unionization it is the tech industry. Call me old but I'd rather give up the "free" lunches and the ping pong tables for the ability to go home at a decent hour every night and a little job security.
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Programmers are the new factory drones -- the closest thing there is in the modern American economy to fungible labor. You'd think with all the education they'd have figured out the merits of collective bargaining.
 
Kepler said:
Programmers are the new factory drones -- the closest thing there is in the modern American economy to fungible labor. You'd think with all the education they'd have figured out the merits of collective bargaining.
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They tried to unionize, bit the attempt bit the dust.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
To be honest, he's spot on with this one.

If there's ever an industry that could use a little unionization it is the tech industry. Call me old but I'd rather give up the "free" lunches and the ping pong tables for the ability to go home at a decent hour every night and a little job security.
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Helpdesk employees, yeah probably (but most of them have already been offshored to Bangalore and Hyderabad). Developers, maybe (but expect even more of those jobs to move to Bangalore/Hyderabad when it happens). Everyone else, I don't see it.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Helpdesk employees, yeah probably (but most of them have already been offshored to Bangalore and Hyderabad). Developers, maybe (but expect even more of those jobs to move to Bangalore/Hyderabad when it happens). Everyone else, I don't see it.
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Dell brought many of their helpdesk employees back from India. Two things are going to slow the migration of helpdesk jobs to India. First, the more of these jobs that move there, the more it will cost companies to employ people there. Second, Dell saw a marked drop in customer satisfaction, and brought many of those jobs back to the United States.

A big change for foreign helpdesk workers will be the Philippines. Their English skills are on par with most of India, and their accents often have more of a Spanish flair to them rather Indian. Plus, the wages are still lower in the Philippines.

My employer is making a huge push into India because they're trying to establish a market there for our services. That's why I work with many Indians today. We also have employees further east strictly for the cost benefits. Otherwise, the increased infrastructure costs, when combined with the steadily rising wages in India now that it's moving out of its status as an undeveloped nation to an emerging market makes it less financially attractive for simple helpdesk work.
 
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Offshoring tech support is something corp executives tell the board of directors they're going to do to cut costs because it sounds good in theory, but it ends up being a disaster often times.

At a former employer I did a quasi-tech job and "offshoring" was all the craze. The company would fly a bunch of Indians over, train them for 3 months, send them back to India where they'd promptly leave for another job (across the hall since they're all housed in the same complex) now that they had training and experience. Then the cycle would repeat. In the meantime customer service was terrible because you kept dealing with new people. Most Indians with top notch technical skills have already left India and are working in the US or the UK. Hence the move to onshore these jobs more and more.
 
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I think it has run its course. Still one of the most brilliant ad campaigns in recent memory.

Even breaking down his trademark sentence is great. "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis." They aren't even saying he always drinks beer and he only prefers Dos Equis. I love it.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I think it has run its course. Still one of the most brilliant ad campaigns in recent memory.

Even breaking down his trademark sentence is great. "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis." They aren't even saying he always drinks beer and he only prefers Dos Equis. I love it.
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Also gave rise to some solid parodies. You know you've made it in advertising when your ad enters the public consciousness to the point that it is so instantly recognizable, it gets used to make fun of - not the brand or the concept - other people.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Also gave rise to some solid parodies. You know you've made it in advertising when your ad enters the public consciousness to the point that it is so instantly recognizable, it gets used to make fun of - not the brand or the concept - other people.
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I don't always know how much time is left...

...but when I do, Clarkson still sucks!
 
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Kepler said:
Thus do I refute you.

Fixating on socialism or capitalism is what fails. America was a great place to live from the New Deal through 1979. It's since 1980 that it's turned into a sh-thole. Can't quite place what happened in 1980...
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So you think the lowest tax rate of 40% is good? Perhaps you should have lived during WWII rationing. Government would have told you what to do. I'm sure you'd LOVE that one.
 
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