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For four weeks this spring, a young woman from India on a temporary visa sat elbow to elbow with an American accountant in a snug cubicle at the headquarters of Toys “R” Us here. The woman, an employee of a giant outsourcing company in India hired by Toys “R” Us, studied and recorded the accountant’s every keystroke, taking screen shots of her computer and detailed notes on how she issued payments for toys sold in the company’s megastores.
“She just pulled up a chair in front of my computer,” said the accountant, 49, who had worked for the company for more than 15 years. “She shadowed me everywhere, even to the ladies’ room.”
By late June, eight workers from the outsourcing company, Tata Consultancy Services, or TCS, had produced intricate manuals for the jobs of 67 people, mainly in accounting. They then returned to India to train TCS workers to take over and perform those jobs there. The Toys “R” Us employees in New Jersey, many of whom had been at the company more than a decade, were laid off.
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Problem #1 - Not enough jobs
Problem #2 - Not enough money to fund the government
Solution to both: Tax the crap out of U.S. companies with offshore employees
or offshore outsourcing contracts. Something like 30% on every dollar going to foreign workers.
I am in Cincinnati. Within 5 miles of where I live there are 2 huge Tata office complexes.
In the apartment complex where I live there are more apartments housing their workers than any other residents. No one around us speaks English.
They are here on our soil, hiring their own, not just over in India bringing our jobs over there.
Solution. STOP SHOPPING AT TOYS R US. I have boycotted a few companies. I simply will not shop those places.
If John Q Public starts getting together and literally boycotts shopping at x company I guarantee that company will change its tune really quickly.
I tried to get a simple retail sales floor position with them years ago after I lost my job. The interview consisted of management pouring legos on the table and instructing us to make our favorite toys with them. I wasn't really allowed to be a child and was severely abused growing up, so I had no clue what to make and had to fake a toy and lie. I didn't get the job. Their interviews must be very different for foreigners.
I wonder how many people who are outraged that accounting jobs are being offshored are equally upset that the toy manufacturing jobs were offshored? Maybe we as Americans need to stop buying foreign made goods and hang up the phone when some foreign customer service agent answers the phone.
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