[geekette]

Lost jobs...All of the jobs I'm talking about here are well-paying tech jobs that start at around $50K and go up.

It used to be, back in the day (as in "only a few years ago") information security positions were not allowed in our company to be sent to India. That has changed. Some of the people I share an office with are not so happy about this development. And, as I told my manager yesterday, if they can offshore information security, what about my job?

The one thing that mitigates against our jobs being outsourced is that our senior manager HATES India with a passion. This is a woman who went driving around central Europe with her husband for her vacation this summer, so she likes to travel. But her beef with India was that, as a woman, even as a senior manager, she was basically told to sit in a corner and shut up unless spoken to. That did not go over well with her. If she has her way, we're not going to be bringing on any more folks from India beyond the one guy who works with the India division.

If they keep doing this to us, we're not going to have the money to keep buying all the junk that China keeps sending our way.