About ABC Good Morning America in Mumbai

As a person of strong faith, I don't believe in vengence or discrimination; however, with all our work going to India this has changed me. I look at the opulence, Bollywood excess, etc and think; okay we have slums right here in the USA. We have people who ARE WILLING to work now for even slave wages. And just like India we have those who live in opulence with disregard for the poverty in front of their eyes.

My point, help me not be so darn angry every time I here the word India!! I know it is not right. I am a peaceful person.

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They teach the people in the call centers in India that 35=10 - meaning that a 35 year old from the U.S. has the I.Q. equivalent of a 10-year-old Indian. Indian tutors that teach American kids over the internet say that a 9th and 10th grader from the U.S. is the equivalent of a 7th grader from India. South Africa and Bulgaria will be the wave of the future for outsourcing. I am just horrified at all this.

If Good Morning America hasn't been on yet in your area, about 45 minutes into the show Diane interviews a man who is outsourcing his life to India, from ordering groceries to reading bedtime stories to their son...OMG. Can it get any more pathetic than that? He says he contacted a few places and one quoted him $400 a month, while another $1000 a month. He even outsourced a argument with his wife. The woman in India apologized for him and sent her a card with hugs. If he were my hubby, I'd find a way to outsource my foot to implant it in his behind.

Let's here some positive thoughts for the day, okay? I like my job (Not love because I'd rather not have to work at all)! I have worked at some nice offices and not so nice offices but this is the best. My own! (Finally finished office after adding on 4 years ago) Sure, I have bad days when I really don't feel like working or the phone rings 100 times a day or DH or kids need this or that every 5 minutes but for the most part where could I work with no one breathing down my neck or I can get up and get a drink of water or go to the bathroom without having to tell someone that I'm doing it and still get paid twice I would be making if I was still in-house.

Come on! Let's here positive things and encourage each other today! (I am not slamming any complainers because I am one also, just want some positive input today)

We are soon going to convert to electronic medical records. I am still going to transcribe reports for the doctor. If I work from home and the doctor wants me to type straight in to electronic medical records system- how is that going to work? Will I still be able to do it from my computer or will doctor have to purchase laptop?????

but in essence you have "given" us to your competition. Your competition may have

not an ethical institution. We don't work for the suprise we get in the bank at the end of 2 weeks of chasing work around your company, we work for the

money. We are business people just like you. You, MQ, would not do business without a clear contract and yet you have expected MTs to

work on a line count that is by YOUR FORMULA which you can't share! How insane is that?

Dozens killed in India terror attacks

There now are reports of as many as 80 people dead -- a number that is likely to rise -- in apparent terror attacks aimed at tourists and travelers in Mumbai, India.

Reuters is reporting that at least 250 people have been wounded in the attacks, which appear targeted at tourists. In addition, Indian television is reporting Westerners are being held hostage at at least two hotels. News networks and wire services are reporting there have been at least seven separate attacks in the city, largely at luxury hotels and restaurants.

"I heard some gunshots around 9:30. I was with my friends. Something hit me. I ran away and fell on the road. Then somebody picked me up. I have injuries below my shoulder," Reuters reporter Sourav Mishra said from a hospital bed, Reuters reported.

The Times of India reports there have been eight separate attacks, including a major terror strike at a large passenger railway station.

Our coverage is here.

(Television broadcast capture of a fire at the Oberoi hotel in Mumbia courtesy NDTV, via AP)

Update at 3:57 p.m. ET: According to the AP, gunmen are known to have attacked a major train station, a well-known restaurant, two luxury hotels and a police station. A previously unknown group calling itself "Deccan Mujahideen" has sent e-mail to news organizations claiming responsibility for the attacks, the Times of India is reporting. The AP now lists the death toll at 78. There are multiple reports that attacks are continuing.

When I was a new grad in 2005 I was offered 7 cents per line for every single company I was offered a position with and that was a good bit of companies, btw. That was employee status and that was IC position too. Even now with 1-2 years experience I get offers of 8.5-9 cents a line.

Now MTSOs are profiting off of slave labor. How can you sleep at night knowing that you are paying your MTs HALF of what they should be making? I cannot wait til their doctors make it impossible for them to profit too. Happy day.

All I can say is everyone has to start somewhere and just becuase you are a new grad from college doesnt mean you are paid half of what you should be paid.

I get making an MT prove themselves for a few weeks at a lower rate (until off of QA) and then up it to 6-7 cents. If they aren't worth it.. DROP THEM.

My MTSO was so honest and fair. She would NEVER EVER think of paying that crap. We need more people like her. Out for her employees and not herself.

You know, maybe it's just my PMS speaking today, but I plan on getting my own accounts and I will NEVER EVER treat my employees like crap and pay them like that.

For 2 weeks of full time work (which for us MTs just starting out is OVER 40 hours) you pay them (based on 12,000 lines a payperiod) 360 (.03) without taxes taken out?? When they should be making $720 (.06) on the low end of the totem pole?

Does anyone still do that "fleecing of America" segment (or whatever it was called)? We are being fleeced!!!!! But again, the other side which promotes offshoring will present a stronger side than us. All we would get is emotional support from a minority of viewers, which doesn't last long. We will be told, as I have, "No one is making you do this job. If you don't like it, do something else." The public has to realize how important this job is to THEIR well-being. Now, they can be told that offshoring is saving them money and they will like that.

That's where our professionalism comes into play but the only way I can see to prove the need for our services is to have all other alternatives fail and have that make a major impact somehow to make people aware, especially the physicians, that we need qualified AMERICAN MTs for America's health records. Odd thing is, greed gets one only so far. Then it tends to backfire -- taxes, breach of confidentiality, etc. Some of those "loopholes" may backfire someday.

I just sent my hubby down to Walmart to pursue the sunlight lamp. I think I am really gonna like it!!!!! I am recommending it to my colleagues. Thanks for the post, MTs !!!!

I was thinking of testing with DTS America in Nashville and just wondering what anyone knew about them.

A: Poverty is mostly the result of poor choices in life, either by yourself or by your parents and grandparents before you, thereby setting up the vicious cycle. Early parenthood, out-of-wedlock births, no father in the home, recycled boyfriends in and out of a home, lack of early childhood stimulation with books/toys, lack of routine and academic expectations, etc.

B: Poverty is societal. Poor people have no choices in America and no real opportunity or ability to raise themselves out of poverty. The way to end poverty is to increase social programs until people are not living in poverty anymore. Poverty is societies fault and the government's fault and therefore theirs to fix.

PC engineering, phone operators, telemarketers, anything you can telecommunicate is being offshored. Its a very unbalanced economy right now. Rich are richer, and there is less consumption as a whole by the middle class as we get poorer, notice how prices are rising? Its more expensive to live here than anywhere and the wages are steadily dropping. My mother had a great idea of collecting credit cards, since she gets a few of them a year, cashing out and moving to Mexico.