Outsourcing : An article in very bad taste…

April 11th, 2005 at 06:52pm

While browsing, I came across this article (Indian outsourcers may have diddled bank) on the Inquirer.net. This particular topic is in news for the past couple of days, and has been featured on quite a lot of popular sites including slashdot.

I am really wondering why it has been blown out of proportion by these people. Ok. Agreed that there was one incident of a some scam involving some money.

But, what about US ?

• People around the world are targets of spam from US.
• People around the world get tons of phishing mails from US.
• People around the world get tons of mails from US asking them to buy Viagra and what not!
• People around the world get tons of mails from US on making fast money.

Just imagine the amount of time and money involved in just reading/clearing these spam mails. Also, just imagine the amount of money individual corporations have to spend on setting up spam filtering mechanism. Its a very well know fact that majority of the scams online are based out of US. May it be marketing scams or chain-mails or some pyramid scheme scam or something else.

The point is, its *some small group of bad guys* in US doing the bad stuff. We all know that *not* all Americans are the source of spam *nor* are all of them scammers. And it would be really *UNFAIR* on one’s part to make a generalization and say that all Americans spam or are scammers.

Yes. Scam is a problem, and it can happen anywhere., and I strongly feel that this particular story has been blown out of proportion.

The same article also talks about two Indian companies (Infosys and wipro) being evacuated for bomb hoaxes by terrorists, and that too has been portrayed negatively…. What’s wrong in evacuating a facility because of a bomb hoax? Yes. India too faces terrorists threats just like US. One should really appreciate the fact that these companies were *ready* to handle the situation, and that too without any effect on normal operations.

Outsourcing is here to stay. Its profitable for all. Its a kind of win-win game. Start living with it.

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