IBM Shifts 14,000 Jobs to India

Omar Khan writes "The New York Times reports, 'Even as it lays off up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the U.S., IBM plans to increase its payroll in India this year by more than 14,000 workers.' Slashdot previously covered the black-and-blue strike, in which the union wondered, 'if other cost cutting mechanisms could achieve the same effect without cutting so may jobs.'"

oops

[swelke]

And this happens just when I was starting to think of IBM as the good guys...

I.B.M == ???

[ArielMT]

Does IBM now stand for "Indian Business Machines"? If they're scaling back so much on the two most developed continents, they don't seem so "international" anymore... what dinosaurs.

I'm screwed?

[g0dsp33d]

I guess a programming major insn't enough. Now I need to learn Indian as well.

Obligatory South Park Quote

[PhotoBoy]

1) Outsource everything except the board members to India
2) ?
3) Profit!

It's an Open Source donation to themselves!

[lux55]

Really, this just means 14,000 more EU and US programmers can now work on IBM's Open Source initiatives without having to be on payroll. Don't programmers seem to prefer that anyway?

Re:Can you give some tangible examples?

[holzp]

becomes sometimes instead of Big Indians, you hire Little Indians who wind up coding everything backwards.

Haha

[kaellinn18]

[I am not saying anything either way.]

Way to straddle the fence at the end there. Did you put that there because you actually have no opinion or were you afraid of the random Slashdot mods?

You probably would have gotten -1 Heartless Capitalist if you'd said that the Indians should have the jobs.

And you probably would have gotten -1 Economics 101 if you'd said the jobs should stay in the US.

I salute your ability to attain a +4 Insightful (as of the time of this writing) without actually saying anything at all.

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[Silkejr]

That's when slashdot mod points will be the next currency :)

Re:I'm screwed?

[TheGratefulNet]

Besides "Indian" isn't a language.

ugh. me wantum job. me needum job.

Re:Message sent, but will it be received?

[Qzukk]

I'm not sure theres enough wal-marts out there to employ 95% of the 80 year olds as greeters.

Re:You Need a PhD in Economics

[mfnickster]

Why don't you start a business, pay your employees to buy your products, and see how long you'll last.

They already did that; it's called 'Amway' or something... ;)