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Good thing the US takes a hard line with brutal, repressive regimes

post #1 of 13
12/11/03 at 11:44pm
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Wrapping up a three-day trip to the United States, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China is committed to increasing imports of U.S. products to level the trade balance between the two nations.

"We have demonstrated our utmost sincerity, and we are very much ready to increase our imports from your country," Wen told CNN's Lou Dobbs in an interview to air Thursday evening.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapc...iew/index.html
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post #2 of 13
12/12/03 at 11:52am
It’s all very well to argue that the U.S. Government should take a ‘hard line’ with the Chinese, but you must concede that such actions are extraordinarily difficult to justify when the American people are currently falling over themselves to buy Chinese products.

In truth, unless consumers begin to exercise a touch of responsibility in the marketplace i.e. purchasing goods on the strength of criterion other than ‘price’, problems such as those associated with China will never go away.

Last week I decided to cancel the contract with my existing electricity supplier when I discovered, to my horror, that they had moved their call-centre from Britain to India, thus neatly disposing of two thousand ‘expensive’ British workers.

Not that I have a problem with India or the Indian people of course, but I simply have no desire to do business with any company that chooses to treat its workers in such an abhorrent manner.
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post #3 of 13
12/12/03 at 12:16pm
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Originally posted by AgentOrange: Stainless Steel Rat


Last week I decided to cancel the contract with my existing electricity supplier when I discovered, to my horror, that they had moved their call-centre from Britain to India, thus neatly disposing of two thousand ‘expensive’ British workers.
Bravo!
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post #4 of 13
12/12/03 at 12:57pm
I think that people really do need to wake up and understand that the problems here are not cheap labour and the willingness of multi-national corporations to exploit this market at the expense of their ‘loyal workers’ back home.

The real driving force behind this whole debacle is the careless, irresponsible and downright greedy person who, by act of purchasing these products, effectively gives multi-national organizations and corrupt governments the mandate they so desperately need to further indulge in their abominable practices.
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post #5 of 13
12/12/03 at 2:26pm
Taiwan gets fucked because of this.
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post #6 of 13
12/12/03 at 2:32pm
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Originally posted by AgentOrange: Stainless Steel Rat


Last week I decided to cancel the contract with my existing electricity supplier when I discovered, to my horror, that they had moved their call-centre from Britain to India, thus neatly disposing of two thousand ‘expensive’ British workers.
FYI, Sprint and others are doing this too.

Listing of business outsoucing work overseas
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post #7 of 13
12/12/03 at 3:19pm
What really raised the blood to boiling temperature is that my old electricity company is going to absurd lengths to try and make the people on the other end of the phone sound more English!

No doubt they are in fear of annoying the rapidly growing anti-Asian (a.k.a. racist) minority in UK, and as a consequence half of the marionettes that you speak to possess these ridiculous clipped BBC-English tones (almost certainly hammered into them by voice coaches) that I haven’t heard spoken in years.

The whole operation reeks of two-bit sideshow deception, and I genuinely feel sorry for the good honest people (no doubt in receipt of a pittance) who are being mercilessly exploited in order to maintain this ghastly perversion.
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post #8 of 13
12/12/03 at 3:30pm
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Originally posted by AgentOrange: Stainless Steel Rat
The whole operation reeks of two-bit sideshow deception, and I genuinely feel sorry for the good honest people (no doubt in receipt of a pittance) who are being mercilessly exploited in order to maintain this ghastly perversion.
No! That's the beauty of "free trade" and "globalisation" at work, you see. Indian workers get to learn an exciting new skill - answering the phone - that will enable them to join the prosperous West at the bottomless trough of opportunity we call "capitalism", British workers get to lose their job and thus spend more time at home, using more electricity, so the poor electricity company saves a fortune in overheads and makes more money on top, so the CEO gets a hefty bonus which he can use to buy an even bigger house and new golf clubs, thus pouring money back into the UK economy and driving the housing market.

The system works, man. Don't be such a cynic.
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post #9 of 13
12/12/03 at 4:00pm
And what about this masterpiece of distasteful sophistry (source: http://www.theinquirer.net)?

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HP Australia proposes Indian outsourced "final solution"(!!)

FURTHER SIGNS of attempts to slim down costs and shed jobs at HP came today after the INQUIRER saw a document outsourcing Australian staff to India. The memo was seen by ZD Net Australia, but that's already sparked a witch hunt inside the organisation for the mole, the INQUIRER has learned. Christine Scammell, general manager of customer support for HP Services, South Pacific said in the memo, which we've also seen, that the move was part of the consolidation of the company.

In a rather unfortunate turn of phrase, she told staff that the "The final solution best represents the criteria of:

a. reduce operational cost structure.
b. support the integration goal of adopting best practice.
c. create better organisational synergy.
d. minimum impact to delivery continuity.
e. minimum impact on customer satisfaction."
Any offers on a translation into English for the last five lines?
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post #10 of 13
12/12/03 at 9:32pm
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Originally posted by AgentOrange: Stainless Steel Rat

Any offers on a translation into English for the last five lines?
We're going to save us some money to try and compete with Dell?
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post #11 of 13
12/12/03 at 9:47pm
Whenever someone uses the word synergy a fairy dies.
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post #12 of 13
12/13/03 at 1:20pm
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Originally posted by AgentOrange: Stainless Steel Rat
And what about this masterpiece of distasteful sophistry (source: http://www.theinquirer.net)?



Any offers on a translation into English for the last five lines?
More money I my pocket, beotches!
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post #13 of 13
12/13/03 at 10:48pm
Whenever someone uses the word synergy a fairy dies.

AWESOME! I am so using that the next meeting we have at work.
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