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   nil-ram, 12 Sep 2003 @ 8:17pm

   
   

   Hard to believe

   The article was about sys admins, a job that's harder to move offshore than development or maintenance. The salaries I'm seeing for developers are holding steady or dropping. And do you count the months of unemployment in-between jobs when you figure that salaries are holding up?

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   Anonymous Coward, 12 Sep 2003 @ 9:44pm

   
   

   The best thing about the tech sump is...

   ...all the fools I had to put up with during the boom times are now flipping burgers or standing in line, just like I told them they should be.
   
   One less poser who plays golf/racket ball with somone who sits on the board makes my solid position much stronger.
   
   I'm all for outsourceing the grunt work (99% of the useless programming efforts that get spun up in any organization of any significant size) to intelligment, over populated third world countries.

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   Anonymous Coward, 12 Sep 2003 @ 9:51pm

   
   

   92% of all statistics....

   > [...] do you count the months of unemployment in-between jobs when you figure that salaries are holding up?< br>
   Oh, hell no. After 6 months, those people aren't even unemployed anymore. They just "choose" to drop out of the job market and are dropped from the unemployment numbers that the government publishes.
   
   There have been some unofficial (non-government sponsored studies) that indicate as many as 10% of those dropped numbers never find full employment again. Those numbers begin to add up really quickly... of course we won't notice anything is wrong until we're stepping over dead homless people on the city streets.

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