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I've also noticed there's this phenomenon I'll call Reverse India Off-Shoring:

1. western companies hire Indian engineers off-shore because they're cheaper and yet equivalent, supposedly

2. online forums flooded with barely readable questions by folks with Indian names where the thing being asked about is so simple and basic that it basically amounts to "would someone please do my job for me? k thx." How do I print a string. How do I write data to disk. How do I install Apache. Etc. That level of question.

I've seen that 100's of times in the last few years. It's alternatingly both funny and infuriating.



Wait, you didn't finish.

3. Person with onshore job answers the question instead of doing work.

4. That person is deemed useless, and his job is offshored.

The cycle repeats.


ha! and:

5. CEO: profit! (on paper)




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