Four Days No Writing
It is not the first time that I have run into a dry spell. I get up and look out my window and think about going back to sleep if not at least pulling the covers over my head. It is not like depression really. It is just a great feeling of ennui.
I am more than weary of this world. I am angry with those people who claim to be Christian but who do not even know their neighbors much less love them. I am tired of worrying about money and if we will have enough to survive from month to month.
I am sick watching our simpering emperor say one week that terrorism is ‘on the run’ and that they are defeated only to come on TV the next week and claim that is not what he really meant. But worse than his idiotic claims, I am disgusted with media that do not call him to task for such idiocy.
I get updates such as this one:
Tucson, Ariz., Call Center Workers Fear Loss of Jobs to Outsourcing.
By Tim Steller, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson.
14 May 2003
KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News: The Arizona Daily Star,
Tuscon, Arizona
May 14-India's booming call-center industry has some local workers worried their telephone headsets will soon rest at cubicles halfway around the world. The parent companies of Tucson's three largest call centers - Convergys, Intuit and America Online - have moved jobs to India, mostly to take advantage of lower labor costs. If the trend continues, some fear, it could threaten many local call center jobs, which number about 16,000 and make up 4 percent to 5 percent of Tucson's work force. "There is no way to sugar-coat the reality of outsourcing," said Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, a British consultant and author of the forthcoming book, "Outsourcing to India." "It means that some jobs will
go."
After seeing what happened with Microsoft here in Spokane I vision a future in which there are no jobs in America. After all, America is the land of milk and honey is it not? Surely, no one here really needs a decent job to get along. Or maybe our technical support people can apply to immigrate to India. There must be some solution to the problem of too many people here. Maybe all the surplus people will simply die so we do not have to deal with what to do with them.
Hmmm… I see a trend here. We got rid of all those nasty laborers who had this outdated idea that maybe they should be able to buy the products that their companies produced. Now the next phase should be to outsource managers. And to get the biggest bang for our buck we should outsource CEOs as well. Now, where do I sign up for the idea box on that one?
11:35:17 AM 
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