[Info-vax] EDS and HP hard to tell the difference

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <hamo86$v13$02$1 at news.t-online.com>,
	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> JF Mezei schrieb:
> 
>> 
>> But in the last decade, fewer and fewer types of enterprises could have
>> "money is no object, quality and reliability is a MUST" mentality and
>> more and more are into cost savings mode.
> 
> And the sad thing is, that even customers accept lower quality
> services, if they are only cheaper.
> Most people have no problems with lousy products
> stealing their time, but think that buying better products
> would steal their money.
> 
>> And in cost savings mode, a company looks at its young "can do" workers
>> who promise to deliver the world in 7 days and find it hard to justify
>> keeping the older more realistic people who say that delivering the
>> world will take mucgh longer and cost more.
> 
> And at some point high tech workers deserve what they get.
> I hear consistently that they refuse to join or organize themselves
> in unions, which might help them to defend their rights,
> just as it did for the factory workers a century ago.
> "We need no stinkin' unions here, we're so smart, we can
> care for ourselves".
> I think, this mindset ain't gonna work anymore for them.

Oh yeah, organize into unions.  That's gonna stop the rapid off-shoring
of IT jobs.

bill
 

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