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"30 Days: Outsourcing" (2006) (Part 1/2)

"Morgan Spurlock's volunteer, a successful computer programmer who lost his lucrative job to outsourcing, travels to India to try to get it back.

Will he discover the secret of India's success? Or that sending jobs overseas is an unstable gamble?

In the 1980s American corporations realised they could manufacture their goods cheaper in a foreign country and millions of American factory workers were left unemployed.

In the 1990s it was the turn of the white-collar worker, as the advent of the internet allowed companies to fire expensive American employees and hire foreign franchises to run key parts of their businesses. This is outsourcing.

With its well-educated, English-speaking workforce, India is fast becoming the destination of choice for outsourced jobs in technology and customer services."
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Added: Nov-21-2007 
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  • He sure complains a lot, about damn near everything.

    Not having seen the second part yet I am sure his host family will be very happy when he has departed.

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  • What a smug SOB. I too have yet to see part 2, but his pompous attitude has already embarrassed me as an American.

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  • sugabebbe: "What a smug SOB. I too have yet to see part 2, but his pompous attitude has already embarrassed me as an American."
    This guy has lost his job! He seems perfectly normal to me.
    And about being embarrassed.. oh dont worrie your President and his Administration are doing a fine job!

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  • It won't be long and places like McDonald's will outsource their drive through order taking to India so that they can eliminate a minimum wage job for a drive through order taker.

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