It's inevitable. We post a story about offshore outsourcing, and the comments section quickly fills with several or more postings about those damn foreigners taking our jobs. My multi-story package on entering the second decade of offshore outsourcing has attracted quite a few.
"I'm sick of talking to foreigners about my problems on a support line & hearing the apathy in their voices," says one post. Says another: …"am I the last sane human on the planet here, or has the bar really been lowered so low that we'd outsource to the mentally challenged if their price was right? Hey, I hear dolphins & whales are pretty smart & they work for fish! Surely, dolphin's ability to read/write/speak English is about at the same level as most of the Chinese tech workers. Well!? It's true."
I’m sick--sick and tired--of such xenophobic comments, which are pretty easy to hide behind when using a made-up user name. Typically they loop back to a common theme: foreigners taking away jobs from Americans. But in-between the hateful barbs I do pick out a few comments that actually have some logic, like this one: "…[we should] stop rewarding greedy corporations for their total insensitivity & lack of concern about the quality vs. the quantity."
