Oh my. NC tech jobs outsourced to...Vietnam?!

[JanMichael]

My mother told me about a Saturday print article in one of the Charlotte papers that talked of specific jobs going to Vietnam. I couldn't find that but I did find this...

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2407528p-2241912c.html

"Entrepreneur Michael Lai Le, for example, started International IT Services in Raleigh in October, already has 38 programmers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and plans to open operations in Australia and China. Le, a native of Vietnam who moved to the Triangle in 1994 as a consultant with IBM, points out to critics that his company is a U.S. company paying U.S. taxes, even though it has only six U.S. employees."

"Le says that since start-ups can now take advantage of low-cost offshore programming, the local economy will get more new companies. He also suggests that companies who pay the $20,000 Vietnam salary for programmers, rather than the $100,000 paid stateside, will have more money to retrain workers for more advanced or management-level tech jobs."

Man NC takes the hits. First Textiles now Tech.

Any solutions? Maybe the Tech people could get retrained as...Attoneys? Walmart Greeters?

[drfemoe]

1. voters?

[napi21]

2. You're right

I didn't see the article, but I just bought a new computer 3 weeks ago. I contacted the tech support 3 times for different reasons. Once I got someone in Norway, once I got someone in India, and the third time I got someone in Japan.

This doesn't speak to the Vietnam issue, but it sure verified that everybody is outsourcing the tech jobs. I was really disgusted!

The MIS director reported to me in my last job. When we were looking for a programmer, he came to me and suggested we hire someone from India. We could get them for $18,000 and save $$.

I didn't, and told him not only was that hurting the techs here, but it was unfairly taking advantage of the poor guy from India.

We didn't do it, but that was 6 years ago, and it sure looks like I don't have many companies supporting my opinion now.