Occupational Hazards

Job, the principal activity in our lives that we do to acquire or deserve a certain paper or metallic medium of exchange called money.

On planet Earth, like most other planets, if you possess a certain pre-determined quantity of money, you are said to be above the poverty line! India, being the second most populous country on planet Earth, and a quarter of all Indians still living below the poverty line, is currently witnessing an economic phenomenon of job creation, which I happen to be part of.

Being a software programmer in addition to being an Indian, it is quite natural for me to be very familiar with the word "Outsourcing". Outsourcing is defined by most earthlings as the day-to-day execution of an entire business function of an organization, by a third party service provider. A consummate definition, one would imagine.

Some facts about outsourcing:

• Outsourcing makes a lot of Indians very happy. It gives them jobs. It gave me my job.
• Outsourcing makes a lot of American techies very unhappy. They have lost thier jobs. Levelheaded Americans are taking strong, but desperate measures [like this website http://www.yourjobisgoingtoindia.com/].
• Outsourcing is known to have flummoxed many observers, even groups of pandimensional hyper-intelligent scientists armed with Arcturan Megacomputers. These pandimensional hyper-intelligent scientists call it the phenomenon of homosapio-lavoro transmigration. What is perplexing about it is the migration of jobs from America to India, and the migration of intelligent lifeforms from India to America, seeking jobs!
• Outsourcing is increasingly being replaced by another term - "Bangalored", derived from the name of a large south Indian city, Bangalore.

Some facts about Bangalore:

• Bangalore is a city of roughly 6.5 million earthlings.
• Bangalore is cited in particular because of its ill-famed reputation in America as a high-tech city, gobbling up jobs of all the people who have been laid off from American corporations.
• Bangalore is going to be renamed Bengaluru. This presents the pandimensional hyper-intelligent scientists with a tricky question. Do we now replace Bangalored by Bengalured?

As for the American techies, whether they are Bangalored or Bengalured, it will hurt just as much, although Benga-lured may sound more appropriate for jobs that are being coaxed out of America.

Peace.
AMD