Are there going to be any jobs left for americans in USA?

Question

I started to get lots of those 'Nigerian' scam e-mails in my box. My ISP is the through a major phone company. I called them to change my e-mail address. A guy with a foreign accent & very poor english took my info. I had to get him to repeat everything at least a few times. Since we have many immigrants in our country I was patient & also he was very polite every time I had to get him to repeat. (My sister had told me once these guys aren't in our country, that our phone co. routes the calls to other countries but I didn't believe her.) Anyway, when I was done, I asked if he was in USA. He said "No, I'm in India." Some people say they boycott stores who buy things cheap from outside, but where I live the phone company has no competition. Phone co.rates are high so they shouldn't have to do this. Foreigners have our personal info so if they did something with it we couldn't do much if anything about it legally. Now I'm really wondering how the scammers got my e-mail address.

Okieboy & Jaguar, fortunately I'm college educated & probably have a lot better job than you guys could hope to get. I'm talking about the outsourcing of our country but I'm guessing this concept is way over your heads. At least they could sell us out to someone who actually speaks english!
As for the prostitution comment someone posted, very funny. Yea I know I'm sitting on a gold mine haha...think I'll just sit tight for now but maybe I have that to fall back on when there's no other jobs left. Thanks for the tip genius!

Miokti...It isn't anything personal about the people in the countries that do the jobs. I know they're just trying to make a living & I don't blame them, which is why I didn't report the problems with this guy's poor english and communication skills.

I was just really aggravated that it took twice the time it should have when the phone company rates here are so high. I blame the politicians and the companies, not the poor people in these countries who need money.

Answer 1

yep... there will be like 1,000 CEO jobs for like 300 million people...

I'm sure that's going to work out really well...

and I had a similar situation with a tech service guy about my computer... it took about 30 minutes longer than it should have because he couldn't understand me... and I couldn't understand him... last time I'm buying a compaq... I've not been happy with the computer anyway, and the pain with the service was just icing on the cake...

Answer 2

1) Spam can come from anywhere. There are spammers who send their emails to randomly generated email addresses, only finding out which ones are real when you click on their unsubsribe link. Best thing to do with spam is to ignore it. It's the same thing that the state department told me when I reported a nigerian scam email I received.

2) It is unfortunate that many jobs that Americans should be doing are being shipped outside the United States. We are partly to blame. Being a capitalist nation, our drive is to make make lots and lots of money; and American businesses are only too eager to pay an Indian guy 10 times less than what an American would ask for to do the same thing. American businesses will do whatever they can to make money for themselves and for their investors. The Indian guy will accept any kind of payment. You can't really blame the American company for choosing the cheaper Indian guy over the 'high-pay' demanding American. It's all about cutting costs, and until our economy is good enough that we can live comfortably for about a tenth of our cost of living now, foreign service oriented companies will always take away our jobs.

Boycotting these companies will only work if they lose enough business to offset the money that make by out-sourcing. American companies make lots of money out-sourcing because they cut their labor costs by ~90%. So unless the boycott can make the company lose money greater than that 90%, they'll just keep on out-sourcing.

The most common job that is out-sourced is customer service, where the people helping you out need very little training (about 3 months at the most). These people have a prompt in front of them, telling them what questions to ask and where to go depending on your answers. Any grade school kid can do it. It's just a bunch of 'if' and 'then' logic already pre-determined to cover all the issues they predict will arise. On some rare occasions, an issue would turn up that they have no answers for, that's when they transfer you to the guy with the American accent.

These call centers are still accountable to the companies that they support, which can be American companies, and most American companies don't want to have poor customer service. It's a poor reflection on them and they can loose their customers if they hire the wrong call centre. So, it is in their (your ISP provider) interest to supervise their foreign call centers.

Let me say though, that the majority of the employees in these call centers are hard working individuals. They are not evil nor are they malevolent. They work at night, to coincide with our time zone. They work 12 hour shifts, with one meal break. An again, they do it for less pay. It's not their fault that American companies chose them over us. Our accountants looked at their books, and determined that hiring these people is the best financial situation.

Answer 3

A lot of phone jobs are leaving the U.S. because people speak English all over the world, and corporations are always looking to lower their costs. The U.S. government refuses to regulate foreign trade, and the effect it has on the overall value of the American worker is negative because of the inherent advantages Americans used to have... if globalization were unchecked and minimum wage laws revoked, the average worker all over the world would be paid the same low amount. It's bad for the U.S. that these jobs are leaving, but unfortunately, it doesn't really help the nations they're going to either. The politicians are desperate to lower unemployment rates, so they auction off their nations to international businesses... lowering minimum wages, raising hours, lowering standards of treatment towards workers, and lowering environmental standards to make businesses come to their nation. The people, however, are barely surviving with those jobs, and here in Argentina (I'm from the U.S. but met a woman here via internet and came here to be married) the people working these jobs cannot sustain themselves without the help of their family. This is a temporary situation which cannot last for more than one generation, because these people are working for unsustainable wages with financial help from the withering middle class, with no advancement in sight for the future. Fortunately for them, for now they can live with their parents' help and spend their meager wages on an iPod.

The only proper solution to this problem is for the U.S. to institute a living-wage law, and pass a law refusing to import products or services which exploit people who are making less than a living wage where they live. This would stop the bleeding, as far as jobs moving away from the U.S. goes, and solve the problem of the devaluation of the American worker, while making sure that the businesses that do go overseas are not exploiting people. Unfortunately we've signed so many free-trade agreements that we have stripped Congress of its power to regulate international trade, one of its most important Constitutional powers.

Answer 4

you shouldn't be wondering. YOU answered your own question. BUT hey, it's how people in this country want it, the keep voting in the same da&* republicans that let the corporations export our jobs with NO PENALTY what so ever. It's going to come the point in this country that it is just like mexico. 90% of the country POOR and 10 of the population owning all the wealth. I guess by that time, WE (the americans) will be trying to swim the river and sneak under the fence of ? Canada maybe? isn't it funny that per the NEOCONS liberals are these awful awful people BUT it would seem to be that liberal canada and liberal europe are doing pretty da*( good these days. Liberalism doesn't seem to have hurt them too bad now does it?

Answer 5

If You want a rewarding career go into public service and make friends with the local political bigwigs. One field that is always growing is correctional officers and law enforcement. Within the next 20 years the major job market will be confined to about 3 areas. Security which includes prison guards, health care,primarily elder care and entitlement program administration. If You can get into politics there will be jobs but every now and then when the party power fades You will feel the pinch unless you take a civil service job which is not subject to political patronage.

Answer 6

Write your representatives to pass laws that will increase taxes or in some way punish companies who take jobs off shore, whether India, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, China, or the Caribbean islands.

Answer 7

I hear prostitution is starting to be on the rise. Maybe we should all take a closer look! *grins* Just kidding. Our economy is shot to death anyways. It is only a matter of time before everything collapses. I am just wondering if it will be in my lifetime or not.

Answer 8

Florida has excellent weather an the orange crop is fantastic,you could take your laptop ,and use it at every 6 hour break.Also the lettuce jobs in California are waiting for you(you could learn another language in the process...!

Answer 9

Unemployment is probably at it's lowest, so it seems there
are plenty of jobs to go around. However, I don't have an
answer as to your e-mail address.

Answer 10

Certainly the Manufacturing jobs are going to be eliminated.