| When American companies started calling for | | | | not so permanent after all. |
| exportation of technical resources to off shore | | | | Instead of understanding and correcting the crisis |
| interests as the next great idea for saving money | | | | they have created, business leaders continue to do |
| and boosting profits, there were plenty of alarms and | | | | what they have always done once they have |
| warnings within every organization that considered | | | | decided to rip an industry away from middle class |
| this move a very bad idea. Despite the red lights and | | | | hands. As India's talent pool begins to seek more |
| sirens, business leadership disconnected themselves | | | | reward for their effort and life investment, American |
| from all their early warning systems, and pulled the | | | | business leaders are looking for ways and locations to |
| rug out from under American technical workers | | | | get more for their money by selecting less expensive |
| anyway. | | | | off shore offerings. |
| In addition to moving operations to India and other | | | | There are voices in the industry who are calling for |
| cut rate foreign talent pools, business leaders began | | | | rallying behind American based talent, and doing what |
| to sunset American resources who were age 40 and | | | | it takes to attract our youth and experienced |
| over, with a message that told people in no uncertain | | | | workers back into service, but so far, business |
| terms that their services would no longer be required. | | | | leaders are not very keen on this idea. The trends |
| Middle class workers were let go by the thousands, | | | | for business leaders are to keep it cheap and try to |
| and sent out into the job market to get whatever | | | | get Congress to ease immigration laws so they can |
| kind of work they could find, with many leaving their | | | | import foreign talent who will come here to live, and |
| technical career experiences far behind. After ruining | | | | spend their money in our economy. |
| the fortunes of middle class workers, and finding that | | | | How much faith can we have in a business system |
| the expectations for off shore resources were not | | | | that builds and destroys middle class work ethics in a |
| bringing on a new technical boom for American | | | | cyclic fashion, only to conclude that they need help |
| companies, business leaders decided that they might | | | | from the government to rebuild from their mistakes |
| need a few American based technical resources after | | | | by importing a new kind of middle class from other |
| all. | | | | countries? |
| As the search for fresh talent began, business | | | | Our business community has finally found a kind of |
| leaders started looking for young talent to exploit for | | | | work that requires more than highly paid warm |
| less money and benefits, and higher work loads than | | | | bodies to do the work. Technical work takes a level |
| older workers with experience in the industry. They | | | | of talent that cannot be found just anywhere, and |
| thought there would surely be a broad pool of young | | | | when it is available, this talent expects to continue |
| lions willing to work for pennies on the dollar to | | | | being rewarded for the effort. Whether the skill set |
| outshine their predecessors, and bust their humps to | | | | comes from India, China, Europe, Mexico, or the |
| take on the burden of doing more than ever to | | | | United States, technical experts will continue to |
| prove their worth. Now there seems to be | | | | demand as high a premium as possible for what they |
| something wrong with this picture. Business leaders | | | | offer, and when business decides the price is too |
| did not consider the possibility that older technical | | | | high, the people will stop doing this kind of work for |
| workers would not go quietly into the night, and that | | | | nothing. Technical skills are not the kind of effort that |
| they would actually educate their children not to | | | | can be sustained by working in a sweat shop or from |
| follow in their failed footsteps. A large portion of the | | | | a slum. It takes ability, energy, creativity, and |
| needed pool of college graduates politely said, "No | | | | encouragement to sustain the expectations of people |
| thanks," to the option of getting a degree in | | | | who make demands upon the industry. |
| computer science. | | | | People who create the technologies are also on the |
| With American youth turning their nose up at being | | | | forefront of those who spend their money to buy it. |
| overworked and underpaid, and India workers now | | | | There are few people in this country who are willing |
| feeling the pressure of what they are being | | | | to knowingly choose a career that puts them out of |
| expected to accomplish, our business leaders are | | | | work with nothing to show for their effort by the |
| finding that the cheap price tag for technical skills is | | | | time they reach 40. |