Outsourcing

Come on. Let’s face it. Outsourcing is a good thing. If Americans (those who have been laid off from a job that will eventually be outsourced to the Philippines) think that Filipinos are the only ones benefiting from such a trade method, they are wrong.

When these types of jobs (mostly simple, entry-level) are sent to our country, US will then be left with the better jobs. I often hear my husband whine about always getting the dirty job. He is a software developer working for a US company and his team is always given the task to start their codes from scratch. Their US counterparts will then continue the job, which is sort of a second-level programming and technically, is cleaner and easier.

Nevertheless, it’s still a good deal. My husband will no longer need to enslave himself in another country, and still earn a descent income. Filipinos are poor but hard working people. As for Americans, it’s just a matter of like, survival of the fittest.

There’s no questioning the Filipino’s capability and talent. Even the famous band Journey hired a very good Filipino vocalist to sing for them in place of Steve Perry. Richard Carpenter, the remaining living member of the Carpenters, signed a 70’s Filipina local pop singer to sing a song he wrote for his sister, Karen, who died before she could have recorded it.