--------- Original Message ---------
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:59:03 -0800
> From: David Brown <asp@...>
>Subject: Re: Digest Number 2425
>
>On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0700, Joel Smith wrote:
>
>> The sad reality is that US people are overpaid in the global economy.
>> We're even overpaid for "menial" jobs. I think the main reason this issue
>> is getting much notice at all is that it is finally starting to impact
>> white-collar employees - Indian programmers write the same computer code
>> that US programmers do. The US isn't "smarter" then the rest of the
>> world. I guess this hurts our ego.
>
>Work ethics and quality standards differ a lot in different parts of the
>world. It seems to have more to do with location where the person is
>working than with where the person grew up.
>
>My company has an office in India. They don't seem to produce code
>nearly as quickly as the US office. Many of the workers in the US
>office grew up, and even went to the same schools as the workers in
>India.
>
>Dave
>

People do or don't do what they can get away with. Slow production of code
probably wouldn't be tolerated here, but I guess it is there because it is
"cheaper." Just goes to show, you get what you pay for.

C.F.


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