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[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Friday 30 May 2003 02:32 pm, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> As much as I prefer this mailing list to stick to technical Linux matters,
> I must say that this issue is an important one.  I too am angry at the

Well, you could join my BizTalk mailing list and continue it there.  That's 
what I set it up for.  On almost every mailing list I'm on, at some point 
members went off-topic with things like outsourcing, the economy, big bad 
businesses, job prospects, industry trends, etc.  So I set up BizTalk to 
address those kinds of discussions, freeing up the other lists for what they 
were meant for.

Right now it is a little shy of critical mass to get very long discussions 
going, but I'm going to be doing another round of advertising this weekend to 
get more members.

http://www.bostongeeks.com/mailman/listinfo/biztalk
(bostongeeks.com is another domain on my machine)

> future has arrived, everyone is looking back and looking for solutions. 

The solution is obvious to me.  
1) We need to convince employer that we are willing to work much more cheaply 
(AKA realistic salaries) than we were in the past, in exchange for more 
people locally having jobs, but with the same energy, quality, and know-how 
we had at the top of the boom.  We can still compete on quality if our price 
is a lot closer to offshore.  I, for one, would accept a job for 60K or 70K 
doing what I was doing before.  Maybe even less if it was good work.

2) C.O's and VP's need to be held accountable for their performance, so they 
only get the (m|b)illion dollar bonuses and parachutes if they do good work 
for the company.  Once that's in place, there will be plenty of money to hire 
a few more geeks at the reduced rate.

Not that this will happen.  Just sayin'.

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