Regarding the Suicide Story

Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:56 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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The article about the BofA programmer that committed suicide spends an
inordinate amount of time with corporate spin doctors. While it's great
they talked to Pete Bennett, he got just one very small paragraph. The
message is clear, it's not BofA's fault that this suicide happened.

Of all the stories I have read lately this one deserves some Letters to
the Editor. Sending LTEs is much more effective than sending emails to
the reporter, although CCing is OK. Norm Matloff has a good page about
sending LTEs as well as a link to the Contra Costa Times.

Go to:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/letters.html

You might want to consider that fact that the BofA is making very good
profits, so they aren't being forced by anyone to outsource American
jobs. They are motivated by the greed to improve profits and claim that
they have no social responsibility to this nation.

REMEMBER: nonimmigrant visas such as H-1B and L-1 allow outsourcing to
occur. Please go to this link for further explanation:

http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/H1BFAQs.htm#IfH-1BAbolished

Here are some comments I have been receiving. I bear no responsibility
for their opinions and have permanently deleted their letters from my
computer:

* He killed the wrong person. I'll let you suppose who the right
(effective) person might have been, the one who could have brought this
situation to the attention of people who matter.

* BofA == Bunch Of Assholes

* They have moved to the top of my list. I wish everybody had trained
these people wrong.

* Every time I read or hear statements like these, they drive me crazy.

""It is unclear if Flanagan lost his job because it had been sent
overseas, or because the bank was slimming down because of the tight
economy."

Regarding this first sentence, the reason the economy is slimming down
is because these companies are laying off American workers/consumers
and are offshoring work and are not contributing taxes. It is not the
other way around that companies are off-shoring because of slow
economy.

"Overall, this deal should affect no more than 5 percent of the bank's
21,000 employees, or about 1,100 jobs, in its technology and operations
division, Gagnon said.""

As for this second statement, reporters never bother to ask what
percent of the Technology Department, not the entire company, does this
laying off Americans impact.

You can add the following to the famous quotes on your website:
Growing overseas does not necessarily translate into a loss in the
United States, said Debashish Sinha, principal analyst for information
technology services at Gartner, a research group.

"Very rarely is there a direct staff substitution," he said. "Very
rarely will a U.S. enterprise lay off their internal IT folk to hire an
external offshore service provider."

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