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Are you saying India and Chile have a right to resent the US, then?
Me, I'm waiting for management to be more comfortable with
telecommuters. In fact, I'm betting the farm on it, since I work
strictly by telecommute. With our work and the technology of today,
there's no reason for you to let your job determine where you live.
Except of course that mgmt isn't ready for total telecommuting. So you
shouldn't need to move to Chile - you should be able to contract for
them from your boat docked on Lopez Island.
Becaue I live where I want, I can either work less (i.e. be more
selective about the jobs I take), or I can work for less. The choice is
mine - to a degree that varies with the economy.
It remeains to be seen how Boeing manages their product quality. I have
seen products go down the tubes at roughly the same time as changes at
the doc-dept. level. I have seen other products unaffected or even
improved during similar changes. But one thing does seem to have a
cause-and-effect relationship... If the writers *were* a form of
intellectual capital, and are *now* a commodity, generally the product
quality suffers to some degree. This is simple economics - a loss of
capital is a loss of capital, no matter which way you slice it. The
bottom line comes in when you weigh (if you *can* weigh) the relative
values of intellectual capital vs financial capital, and which one you
can more successfully do without.
The only thing I could see as a legitimate source of resentment
would be if the respective countries (emerging as hotbeds of
tech-writing) were to throw up arbitrary/artificial barriers
to us former top-dawgs emigrating and getting employed.
--
Chris Despopoulos, maker of CudSpan Freeware...
Plugins to Enhance FrameMaker & FrameMaker+SGML http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/
cud -at- telecable -dot- es
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