http://gethuman.com/

These are tested very often, and when the companies make a new move, someone on the inside tells the secret so this website can counter move.

You are very welcome in advance Dave NE IA

A elderly lady in my home town works in Wisconson taking orders for meats and cheese marketed in Boston. They have a current weather condition for Boston update by the hour on their desk. When asked about her red neck voice, she has to tell the customer she was raised in the midwest.

Are any of you been keeping track of United Airlines? A few years ago --wage concessions to keep the company solvent. Last fall a good honest judge took one half of the workers retirment fund and let the big dogs use it. I think in Jan. the CEO called it a untimley event that the top 1,000 top dogs a raise, the top four or seven got over a million each. Hummmm, very untimley.

We live in a world of deception, at the food market the clear plastic wrap for meat actualy has a red tint to it, the vegetables have a green tint. Oranges have a bright orange net over them. We all take it, and love it as well. Perhaps grandpa had this all figured out along time ago, with honest people being a thing of the past.

Back to the main course here, I have many times used the spanish button to speak to a real person as the waiting list is always shorter, and they are all speak both languages.

Anyway, good luck to you Dave, the darkest clowds are usualy at the front of the storm.

Dave NE IA

Good luck in your business. Hope you make lots of well earned money, and customers keep coming back and asking for you by name. Always a good feeling. And I never forget to remind a customer how much they mean to me. After all, they could've chosen the other guy, but chose to make the bulk of my mortgage and truck payments, and help put the food in my family's mouths. I appreciate giving them at least what they paid for, and any help I can above that.

Sincerely, Mark

Here's an example of such outsourcing. One day I'm dealing with a major, major power company and happen to be talking to one of the plant bigshots. He tells me about a certain outsourcing that came down from the corporate office. Now certain repairs will be handled from a foreign helpdesk, then subcontracted through them to...? instead of they folks that they currently employ, whom will probably be weeded out or further whittled down through various means. Then he tells me that they've already calculated in increased down times and ... bad quality of service, so to speak. Daily repairs become days or weeks of waiting before they'll get hit. They already know its coming and expect it. They've already factored it into the equation. Wow, that's a beautiful thing. Factoring in bad service as global competition? Beautiful.

And another example is my company. I now work for one of the 2 largest phone companies in the world through merger and takeover and... I can't count the ways. One day I'm working with a particular central office switch that few know (are familiar with), and I call "THE" tech support guy on his personal line. This guy's so good that the manufacturer calls this guy for oppinions from time to time. This guy is "THE" guy. I got his voice mail. So, I hungup and called through the 800 number expecting to have someone hunt him down for me. Instead, I got Benji from Bhopal. Benji didn't even try to cover it up. I couldn't understand him, he couldn't understand me, but we tried. About the only thing that I understood was that he was "pleased to be putting me on hold to ask, thank you", then called the USA for instructions. And when he'd come back and try to explain, and I'd ask "Well, if I do that, it's going to cause...", then was "pleased to be putting me on hold to ask, thank you", and placed another call to the USA. This happened several times and took forever, but he had me in a corporate strangle hold. Instead of just getting me to "THE" guy, we danced through pile after pile of cow shxt. The problem with that is that one day some other clueless bean counter in an office with a phone and laptop computer will axe the salary of "THE" guy in lieu of paying Benji from Bhopal peanuts for further bad service.

There don't seem to be an end to it. It looks great to the shareholders through inflated stock prices, as the CEO takes his buyout and cashes in his stock options, then flees, leaving that former company behind in flames. Nope, no end in sight. Welcome to a "global economy" where the strong are weakened to elevate (strengthen) the weak.

Mark

When that judge told United Airlines a year or so ago that since they were the sole contributor to their workers pension fund that they could default, and United did, that opened the floodgates. A few months ago was a bakery somewhere in Illinois, the Chicago area that did the same thing. Can't remember its name, was a large bakery though, and stiffed its employees big time, based upon the United ruling. Now I'm waiting to see what happens to Delphi. They approached a judge asking to nullify the negotiated contract with its employees. POOF?!?! Up in smoke? A contract? I'm pretty certain that if the employees covered under that contract approached a judge first and asked the same, they'd be laughed out of his courtroom.

One of my biggest concerns is the proposed "Guest Worker" program that a poll yesterday says 79% of legal citizens agree with. All the guest worker program does is legalize the illegal workers, taking away any arguements of losing higher paying jobs to illegals for lower wages. Its nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Legal workers complain the construction jobs are going to illegals for lower wages, so Washington spins "Guest Worker" permits as the answer to illegals, and the general public says "OK, better than illegals", which only documents taking those jobs at lower wages. Beautiful. Just beautiful. That line about "Only take the jobs we don't want, and pay taxes too" is garbage, just garbage. First off, how does someone that doesn't exist contribute to FICA or pay income taxes when have no tax ID or SSN, since they don't or can't exist in the first place? How? Might pay taxes in the checkout line of the grocery store or what not, but certainly not income taxes or pay into FICA, when they can't exist to do so in the frst place. I see those guys working highway construction jobs, and building new subdivisions, and on and on and on. And when I ask those job bosses "Why do you have illegals working those jobs", their responses are "I don't want to, but I have to because I can't compete with the competition whom did first, unless I do so too". The end cost of those construction jobs or new homes didn't go down to reflect the lower labor costs, but the profit margins for the general contractor went up. Garbage, just garbage. Earlier this week I saw O'Reilly interviewing one such guy, whom said "We watch your children for you, we do your handiwork, we build your homes, ...". Build our homes? No one wants a higher paying construction job? My a$$. And now they openly admit it, while Washington still maintains "...just the jobs we don't want". Garbage, just garbage. Lying pieces of garbage.

Sooner or later when we don't have the jobs that we had, after we completely become a "service oriented" country instead of the manufacturing/industrial country that we once were, folks will catch on that there's just so many hot dogs the hot dog guy can sell the hamburger guy, and vica versa. My job takes me into countless new construction jobs, and I see huge building after huge building going up everywhere, and they all have one thing in common. They are warehouses, or regional distribution centers. NONE are manufacturing. Warehousing and distribution only. So if we aren't making it, where are the goods coming from? Our trade deficit last year was over $700 Billion. We're importing everything, exporting little or nothing. Its a global economy, and the richest nation in the world in terms of resources is bleeding to death, while Washington counts hot dog sales as a meaningful long term job, statistically, and the general public says "Ok, I'll do it". My state of Indiana doesn't lead the nation in foreclosed homes for no reason. We do it because the hamburger guy can't afford the hot dog guy's dogs, and the fact that the higher paying job went away after the mortgage guy lent the mortgage isn't his fault.

People had better wake up, and soon.

Mark