{"id":3618,"date":"2005-08-25T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/american-workers.html"},"modified":"2005-08-25T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T08:59:53","slug":"american-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/american-workers.html","title":{"rendered":"American Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">I wrote a blog entry about a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/new-dell-call-center-in-india.html\">Dell call center<\/a> a while back and I have noticed that people from <place w:st=\"on\"><country-region w:st=\"on\">India<\/country-region><\/place> keep commenting on it . They hope to use my blog as a way to get hired. The funny thing about many of these e-mails is the grammar. If you are really looking for work you should somehow get your grammar checked before posting things online for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is broader than that. Indian workers are desperate for work. I don\u2019t get the sense that American workers are desperate. Sure, there are exceptions such as auto workers who were laid off but in general <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">India<\/place><\/country-region> has a massive population of people that absolutely must find work. They seem to want to do anything for work.<\/p>\n<p>In a global economy jobs will continue to flow into places where workers are desperate. This will happen until wages around the globe level out. A good friend of mine Ephraim Cohen told me this a while back (and I am paraphrasing something he said to me a few years back so I hope I got it exactly right) <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/span>and he has all the international business degrees to back statements like this up.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? After thinking about it over the years\u2026 He is right.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get in touch with Ephraim BTW he is at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortexgroup.com\/\">Fortex Group<\/a> a great PR firm which he founded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a blog entry about a Dell call center a while back and I have noticed that people from India keep commenting on it . They hope to use my blog as a way to get hired. The funny thing about many of these e-mails is the grammar. If you are really looking for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}