Originally posted by: Shuxclams
Originally posted by: TheGameIs21
Originally posted by: rudder
I spent 6 years in school to become a travel agent. Now with Bush in office and the crapping internet taking all my business, i have been unemployed for 2 years. Time for a change.
What has Bush done that directly negatively effected your industry? If you are honest with yourself, you'd admit that the internet is what killed the need for agents. It's the price of technology. Do you remember when your industry was still going strong and then computers were introduced? How many people were replaced by the programs you ran?
I see your point, but how about asking yourself an honest question;
Your industry hasnt been bothered by the past few years of this "Economy"....
or
Did you see any "Tax Relief"?
SHUX
I am a mid level manager in the IT department for a utility company. I can say that neither GWB OR Clinton have done anything to harm the IT Industry that I have experienced. IT suffered the initial fall out of .com and then Companies started cutting staff and doubling up workload on remaining workforce.
In regards to Tax Relief, I have not been directly effected but I am not blind to how it effects me in the "big picture". You probably think Trickle Down is a hoax but it works and I am not going to try to convince you. It was covered in OT last week and I said what I had to say there.
In regards to the ".com burst"
People have to understand that the .com burst was a unique occurance in economic terms. Never before has so much money been put into distorted images of growth. Part of that growth is "correcting" even today. You had employees with nothing more that an A+ getting $50K+ for doing entry level work at these many small overly funded offices. Good solid techs were leaving solid IT Positions at places like Utility Companies and Banks etc... to make the huge $$ being offered. To compensate for this loss, these companies had to pay inflated rates to techs to keep or replace them. Today, alot of these companies continue to get rid of these IT Professionals that are over paid in today's terms so that they are back to pre .com days. That hurts alot of people that financed their life with the .com wages.
The "bubble" started to burst while Clinton was in office. The only thing he could have done to keep it from happening was to regulate the IT industry. That is the last thing that anyone would want.
Now back on topic. The Administration of Clinton and GWB couldn't have done anything to prevent the loss of 400,000 IT jobs. You have Joe A+ Schmoe living in the US wanting an "inflated" version of what he thinks he's worth and you have {insert foreign name here} living in India, willing to do the same job for half the cost. Granted he has an accent that I'll hang up on before I try to deal with him but I have no doubt that he can do the same job as Joe (hell, have you called american companies doing support?) I can't blame an employer for going that route and I can't blame the administration for not keeping a business owner from doing what he wants with his company.
I wouldn't go that route myeslf just because I know that I hate to deal with accents that usually force me to say "What" 4 times for each statement they make in broken english. Customer Service is worth more to me than saving some $$ on payroll.
Was that disjointed enough?
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