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Re: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers

Subject: Re: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:18:27 -0500


Mike,

It may already be happening. I found a freelance graphic artist to do some icons for us. He has a thoroughly Russian name along with a pretty good command of English, and he has a Los Angeles postal address and phone number. But at the rates he was charging, the speed he produced, and the hours of the day when he communicated with me, it is entirely possible that he was managing a small workshop of artists in Moscow rather than working late into the night by himself in LA. I never asked him, and there was really no way for me to tell, based on our interactions, if he was currently working in the US or had established some contacts on a previous contract assignment here, then moved back home. It also didn't matter to me, as it shouldn't matter to a US employer where you are "offshoring" from.

Dick

Mike O. wrote:


I propose a new US-based company that will set up an offshore shell company
and bid on US technology work. When the work comes in, it will immediately
be assigned to US-based workers, working from their home offices, who are
willing to accept lower rates in exchange for the convenience of working
remotely.

The employers never need to know that their work is being done by
experienced, qualified people working from their offices in the US. Better
they don't find out - they have policies against such things, and it would
only upset them..

Of course, we'll all need hotmail aliases, and a few international phone
relays and maildrops.

My new company's motto: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're an American."

If some of you are already doing this, it might not be funny at all.

Mike O.


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