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Not From The Onion

Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Dennis Dale
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(And not tears of laughter) The mobility of labor is becoming the forced march of labor: IBM offers help to displaced workers.

Trent Hill, on February 10th, 2009 at 5:46 pm Said:

Forced march? Someone is forcibly making these men and women move to India? Please.
Dennis Dale, on February 10th, 2009 at 6:49 pm Said:

Your keen eye for detail has got me. Well, played, Mr. Hill.
In other revelations:
the economic crisis is not, as some have alleged, a “tsunami”, that will inundate coastal areas and carry helpless victims out to sea and
Iraq is in fact not a “quagmire” of soft, difficult to navigate marshland, but a desert country!
Oh the enlightening joy of being literal-minded! So simplifying! So comforting!

And, yes, a system that has American tech companies eliminating tens of thousands of jobs and then offering Americans help in relocating to the places where those jobs are migrating, such as
“Slovenia, Romania, Brazil, Nigeria, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates”
is hardly forcing anyone to do go anywhere. Wal-Mart and McDonalds are proving quite resilient in this environment after all. You want fries with that?
Angela, on February 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm Said:

Brazil? Sign me up!
Dennis Dale, on February 10th, 2009 at 9:45 pm Said:

Actually from the Onion:
Brazil: People at their most beautiful, humanity at its ugliest.
Bon voyage.