BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!

Subject: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 11:17 AM

Well, ain't this something?

A report by the Boston Consulting Group released this week "warns American firms that they risk extinction if they hesitate in shilfting facilities to countries with low costs."

They also point out that "a view of among U.S. executives (is) that the quality of American workers is deteriorating."

(Washington Post, July 2, 2004, "Implored to 'Offshore' More", by Paul Blustein)

My only question is the same one I keep asking. When the United Sates becomes a Third World country with 95% of its people either unemployed or vastly underemployed (which we are seeing now), who is going to buy the junk that these corporations make overseas? And a follow up question. Just how will the rich then live in a country where their greed has just reduced the masses to an impoverished class? (Think Haiti here, if you like...)

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Megan L
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 11:33 AM

Bobert my dear you got way to much time on your hands today :)

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 11:44 AM

Hey Bobert. Do you ever watch Lou Dobbs' show (I think it's called "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on CNN)? I used to think he was a corporate shill, but lately he's been waging a one man crusade to shame companies that send jobs overseas. It's worth checking out if you haven't seen it.

Maybe we ought to outsource those Boston Consulting Group jobs to a third world country.

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Metchosin
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 12:26 PM

I watched Dobbs, about a month back, take the piss out of, if I remember his name correctly, Steve Forbes of Forbes Magazine and a couple of others of his ilk, for their lauding the wonderful benefits of outsourcing. I was a bit suprized to find it was on CNN and not a PBS type thing.

My first thought, as was Bobert's, was if this "wonderful thing" continues, who's going to be left in a position to buy all your stuff, a**holes!" Even "good" old Henry Ford had enough acumen to recognize the economic benefits of paying people enough to actually purchase what they had built.

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: DougR
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 03:13 PM

Maybe you folks that are so unhappy with the corporations moving certain cost-saving operations overseas, should mover over there and get a job! How about India, Bobert? I think they may have some great telemarketing jobs available. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Metchosin
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 03:33 PM

you know, everytime I start to wonder what stupidity is, you post something Doug and it suddenly becomes revealed to me with perfect clarity.

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 04:39 PM

Well, Dougie, my friend, I was thinking that since their are so many retirees now in America that need a ttention that maybe we oughta round 'um all up, RV's, Geritol and all, and ferry them off to India and save the rest of us a ton of money taking care of them...

Of course, yer state would be nuthing but one football team and some very empty bleachers but, hey?

Whaddayathink?

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 04:57 PM

Interesting point, Bobert. I guess if they ship all of the jobs overseas, there won't be anyone left here in the US to pay Douggie's Social Security and Medicare. Then he'd have to move to India anyway. Save us the cost of shipping him over.

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: GUEST,thread drifter
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 06:20 PM

I had a dream about you last night, CarolC. Don't tell Jack. oh, heck go ahead and tell'm. You were flying around in a helicopter with David Attenborough, co-narrating a show on Oklahoma nature stuff. swear to god. It was a well done documentary. (I learned stuff about Oklahoma I never knew, go figger.) -hrc, dwk

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 06:25 PM

LOL! Sounds good to me, hrc,dwk ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 08:21 PM

Well, drifter, ya wanta tell us what you learnt about Oklahoma that you didn't know proir to the dream?

Awww, jus' funnin'...

Wonder where Dougie went, Carol? You don't think he's busy packin' up fir the long trip to his new retirment villa in India, do ya?

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 08:27 PM

Naw, Bobert. I think he's going to try to squeeze a few more nickles out of people like you and me before he does that. Long as he can get away with it ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Boston Consulting Group wants you fired!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 10:43 PM

What Carol said, Dougie...

But seriously, my friend. You do realize that yer guys are trying to bankrupt the governemnt just as the Baby Boomers are getting to the so-called finish line, i.e. retirement... Which I'm beginning to see is not going to be as kind to us as it has been for your generation, that is if any of us actually get to retire...

I thought I might be able to do it but have found that the current health care system and the pharmacudical companies are going to keep most of us Baby Boomers on Boss Hog's assembly lines making $8.00 an hour until we drop unless, of course, we want to relocate to India or Pakinsatn and make $8.25 and work on Boss Hog's assembly lines until we drop...

Bobert