How far will we push India's workforce?
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How far will we push India's workforce? Posted on Dec 26 2006 at 7:13am by What happens when corporate greed begins to foment lasting, irreversible mutations on a country's culture?
This workforce in Chennai has completely surrendered to the cause of the American dollar, thanks in part to the insatiable thirst of global shareholders.
Call centers employ 150,000 to 250,000 employees who are forced to learn correct intonation in order to wipe out their "Mother-tongue-influence" so that they can sound more American or British.
They adopt cute names like "Lisa" or "Tina" or even "Steven" or "Tony" just so they can assimilate to our culture.
They work 18-hour days just to prove they are worthy of success, which reminds me a lot about the "dot.com" days in Silicon Valley before Y2K.
While attrition rates hit between 30% to 40% at each outsourcing center, U.S. accountants, law firms, insurance & printing companies and advertising agencies continue to Americanize their outsource counterparts by enforcing the next wave of colonization. The latest ripple in this corporate greed equates essentially to intellectual slavery.
The more effort that goes toward "Westernizing" these workers means that many more workers in India will give up their names, their identities, their accents and their culture. And for what? Just so that they can get paid a fraction of an American worker? Welcome to the next generation of America's Dirty Little Corporate Secret.
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RE: How far will we push India's workforce? Posted on Jan 1 2007 at 7:09pm by straightshooter1970 wrote:
(Dec 26 2006 @ 07:13am)
What happens when corporate greed begins to foment lasting, irreversible mutations on a country's culture?
This workforce in Chennai has completely surrendered to the cause of the American dollar, thanks in part to the insatiable thirst of global shareholders.
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The more effort that goes toward "Westernizing" these workers means that many more workers in India will give up their names, their identities, their accents and their culture. And for what? Just so that they can get paid a fraction of an American worker? Welcome to the next generation of America's Dirty Little Corporate Secret.
Oh, untwist your panties already!
Along with all the horrors you list above being visited off on these poor folks are (relatively) high wages.
Awww, doesn't that just suck for them?
It seems to me it's pretty easy to sit back munching granola
and pouring out the latest liberal bemoanments about how corporate America is victimising still another portion of the world.
Never mind that it's bringing tons of (economic) benefits to folks who might have had to sell their daughters off into virtual slavery to be hookers when they're twelve, and dead before they're twenty.
Get a grip.RE: How far will we push India's workforce? Posted on Jan 21 2007 at 11:14am by cekestner wrote:
(Jan 01 2007 @ 07:09pm)
straightshooter1970 wrote:
(Dec 26 2006 @ 07:13am)
What happens when corporate greed begins to foment lasting, irreversible mutations on a country's culture?
This workforce in Chennai has completely surrendered to the cause of the American dollar, thanks in part to the insatiable thirst of global shareholders.
...
The more effort that goes toward "Westernizing" these workers means that many more workers in India will give up their names, their identities, their accents and their culture. And for what? Just so that they can get paid a fraction of an American worker? Welcome to the next generation of America's Dirty Little Corporate Secret.
Oh, untwist your panties already!
Along with all the horrors you list above being visited off on these poor folks are (relatively) high wages.
Awww, doesn't that just suck for them?
It seems to me it's pretty easy to sit back munching granola
and pouring out the latest liberal bemoanments about how corporate America is victimising still another portion of the world.
Never mind that it's bringing tons of (economic) benefits to folks who might have had to sell their daughters off into virtual slavery to be hookers when they're twelve, and dead before they're twenty.
Get a grip.
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RE: How far will we push India's workforce? Posted on Jan 21 2007 at 11:32am by cekestner wrote:
(Jan 01 2007 @ 07:09pm)
straightshooter1970 wrote:
(Dec 26 2006 @ 07:13am)
What happens when corporate greed begins to foment lasting, irreversible mutations on a country's culture?
This workforce in Chennai has completely surrendered to the cause of the American dollar, thanks in part to the insatiable thirst of global shareholders.
...
The more effort that goes toward "Westernizing" these workers means that many more workers in India will give up their names, their identities, their accents and their culture. And for what? Just so that they can get paid a fraction of an American worker? Welcome to the next generation of America's Dirty Little Corporate Secret.
Oh, untwist your panties already!
Along with all the horrors you list above being visited off on these poor folks are (relatively) high wages.
Awww, doesn't that just suck for them?
It seems to me it's pretty easy to sit back munching granola
and pouring out the latest liberal bemoanments about how corporate America is victimising still another portion of the world.
Never mind that it's bringing tons of (economic) benefits to folks who might have had to sell their daughters off into virtual slavery to be hookers when they're twelve, and dead before they're twenty.
Get a grip.
It takes a brave man to state the obvious that things are not cherry everywhere in the world. However, I agree, we've got kind of a good thing going here . . . or COULD be. It doesn't mean that U.S. and Easterners will ever see things quite the same but that is not really even desirable. There's more to it than what Westerners can know . . . the Easterners are bringing to the table a different perspective, besides their almost intuitive grasp of skill and thought processes. Office Tigers is fascinating to me as a Westerner because they don't react the same way that say Americans would to any given situation. There's a lot at stake (speaking from someone who's taken the typing MS Word test myself to get a job) and they throw themselves into the game with a quiet intensity that, as far as Americans go, works well and substantiates American workaholic motivationalism. I don't think a rock-solid people like that are going to easily forget where they come from -- and the outcome of what is created is going to be a blending of something new and different, something that is classical and unstoppable in the world of business. -- LCRE: How far will we push India's workforce? Posted on Jan 21 2007 at 11:51am by lcaplwood wrote:
(Jan 21 2007 @ 11:32am)
cekestner wrote:
(Jan 01 2007 @ 07:09pm)
straightshooter1970 wrote:
(Dec 26 2006 @ 07:13am)
What happens when corporate greed begins to foment lasting, irreversible mutations on a country's culture?
This workforce in Chennai has completely surrendered to the cause of the American dollar, thanks in part to the insatiable thirst of global shareholders.
...
The more effort that goes toward "Westernizing" these workers means that many more workers in India will give up their names, their identities, their accents and their culture. And for what? Just so that they can get paid a fraction of an American worker? Welcome to the next generation of America's Dirty Little Corporate Secret.
Oh, untwist your panties already!
Along with all the horrors you list above being visited off on these poor folks are (relatively) high wages.
Awww, doesn't that just suck for them?
It seems to me it's pretty easy to sit back munching granola
and pouring out the latest liberal bemoanments about how corporate America is victimising still another portion of the world.
Never mind that it's bringing tons of (economic) benefits to folks who might have had to sell their daughters off into virtual slavery to be hookers when they're twelve, and dead before they're twenty.
Get a grip.
It takes a brave man to state the obvious that things are not cherry everywhere in the world. However, I agree, we've got kind of a good thing going here . . . or COULD be. It doesn't mean that U.S. and Easterners will ever see things quite the same but that is not really even desirable. There's more to it than what Westerners can know . . . the Easterners are bringing to the table a different perspective, besides their almost intuitive grasp of skill and thought processes. Office Tigers is fascinating to me as a Westerner because they don't react the same way that say Americans would to any given situation. There's a lot at stake (speaking from someone who's taken the typing MS Word test myself to get a job) and they throw themselves into the game with a quiet intensity that, as far as Americans go, works well and substantiates American workaholic motivationalism. I don't think a rock-solid people like that are going to easily forget where they come from -- and the outcome of what is created is going to be a blending of something new and different, something that is classical and unstoppable in the world of business. -- LC
A final thought (now that I think I've gotten the hang of this thing) -- Where do you think this "Office Tiger" will head? I have my ideas that it will invade executive corporate offices . . . and although generally Asian acceptance of authority seems to be quietly underscored, Americans are the exact opposite (coming from outspoken and revolutionary forces from the very beginning) -- it could create quite an interesting conflict (or opportunity -- motiv-speak). An Eastern boss rising from the bottom to the top in Asia is a rare enough thing, but when he rises to the top in an American business, his whole simple/complex perspective on everything could be put to the test as he applies himself the same way he always did, and "corporate American guy" might have a problem adjusting to his new boss. The question may well evolve from "How far will we push India's workforce" to "How far can India's workforce and ours go together?" -- LC
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