Voice Your Concern about Offshoring - E mail the President - see here

Go to whitehouse.gov/contact or ehow, etc.  I did just that today.  They invited me to e mail the president - so I did.  Not sure he will ever get it but it was a nice friendly letter.  I asked him to find out and report how many jobs are being offshored every single day, faster than he can create them.  I asked him to try to get specific figures on tax implications and our social security system.  No one has ever given out this information, which would probably be a difficult task since the offshoring companies will not fess up to how many jobs really leave the U.S.  I figured if any one could find out it would be President Obama himself.  As an aside I asked him could it be true that the big banks who received approximately $150 billion dollars of our money actually applied for 20,000 new visas for foreign workers (up 1/3).  With our own money?

 I asked him how his stimulus package was supposed to work.  I have always stimulated the economy, worked, and paid taxes.  Now my job has been given to a foreign worker who does not pay taxes.  What gives?  If that is not on a drain on the system, then the lines for unemployment income are.  I mentioned that the stimulus checks handed out were never going to trickle down to the average American citizen.  Look what they are doing with it.  The best stimulus he could give us is to save our jobs.  We can't spend what we don't have.  I also congratulated him on his new job, financial security, the American people keeping the mortgage up to date on the White House, and that his kids certainly seem to have everything they need.  Keep up the good work and get back to me on those huge figures.  Oh, and I gave him my figures, unemployment at 50% of your earnings for 6 months.

Your e mail can be one sentence or up to 5,000 words.  Can you imagine the President receiving e mails from 300-500 MTs in one week.  Do it.

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Here's MY letter--below--to our President.  Our jobs are going people.  But our president has other plans.  To the poster below--do you think that lovely older woman who asked the question about offshoring--or any of us lovely people sitting comfortably in our home offices right now working--are cut out for jobs such as (taken from the transcript) building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs ??  Are you ready to climb a friggen wind turbine and service the propellers? 

I was so upset with his answer.  First, I called the White House.  This is our right.  You ALL should do that.  Second I wrote the following letter to the President.  My own little two cents.  Then I copied it to every news agency out there that I could think of.  Again, just my two cents.  You all should do the same.  Let him know that his answer just will not do.  What are we all supposed to do, in the meantime, to buy food and pay our bills before we get trained to build turbines, solar panels, or go to the lab to create the next biofuel? 

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President Obama—

You owe the American displaced workers an apology. 

How dare you. 

I am shocked at your response to the video question about the offshoring of American jobs.  How dare you say to us that we don’t want those jobs that are going offshore anyway.  Mr. President, for those of us who have lost or are about to lose our jobs to offshoring, yes we DO want our jobs. 

You then went on to blame offshoring on the credit situation.  Oh come on! The financial disaster has nothing to do with offshoring.  Offshoring is the bastard child of government ineptitude and the corporate greed running rampant in our country.  Offshoring means getting the same job done by cheap third-world labor.  Offshoring is about not paying decent wages and benefits.  Offshoring is about stuffing corporate pockets with more money. 

If there was an international symbol for offshoring, it would be a picture of a CEO’s heel grinding into a third-world worker’s back. 

These greedy corporations have sold out the American worker and are stepping on the backs of the low-wage third-world workers .

I am outraged.  I DID go to school Mr. President.  I HAVE a degree.  I have invested thousands of dollars into reference materials and equipment to help me perform my job better.  I also have invested almost 30 years to my career.  My career is very technical.  I could rattle off a bunch of words here for you, and I bet you would not know what they mean.  But I do.  And I have performed my job with pride all these years. 

How dare you brush off the offshoring question with such simplicity.

Well, I would rather Americans have jobs, not undereducated or poorly educated third world nations. 

A lot of the work from my field goes to India, Phillipines and Pakistan.  Didn’t I see a group of Pakistani’s burning the American Flag on TV recently?  Do you know that when my company’s work goes offshore, it contains the name, birth date and social security numbers of Americans?  This is information,  that in the wrong hands, could be used to ruin someone’s life.  How can we be sure in countries with unstable governments, with such widespread hatred for America, with the arrogance to burn the American Flag on national TV, that this information will be guarded with care?  The sad part is, after the Pakistani’s anti-American demonstration, chances are they all went back to work---doing jobs taken from Americans. 

How dare you say we don’t want our jobs.  What is your solution?  Wait for these “green jobs”  to be created some day?  Go to school while we are waiting and then hope that we will be hired when we are in our golden years? 

How dare you belittle what we all have worked so hard to achieve in our lives.  Not  all offshored jobs are call center jobs.  Many of those jobs are now degreed and highly skilled jobs also. 

And—your comment about our children becoming engineers was laughable.  With all due respect—get with it sir—those jobs are also being offshored.   Also, what are we, the displaced workers, many of us middle age, supposed to do in the meantime before we get trained to build solar panels, wind turbines and create biofuels.  How should be pay for our food and our rents and mortgages? 

No, Mr.  President, you are so very incorrect.  We DO want those jobs.  They feed us, clothe us, and keep us off the street.  Not to mention they help us strengthen the tax base in our own country--America. 

Yes, We WANT our jobs, Mr. President. 

You owe all the displaced American workers an apology. 

You Are Wrong. 

On AOL I can determine who I want to receive mail from and block those I do not  -- and if they are blocked  they get their E-mail back as being "undeliverable".  If she sends things out -- send back --unaccepted.  But to be simple just E-mail her back or call the recuriter if you don't want to deal with her directly and state -- leave me alone.  If she is in another state you should not be scared of her but you may simply have to put it out there in no uncertain terms.

In response to a previous post on newbies finding a job - I've been typing for almost 15 years and was lucky enough to "learn the right way" from a great mentor, learning all specialties.  Editing speech rec jobs is relatively easy when you have the background in all specialties like "us old folks".

At least for right now, I believe speech rec is only as good as the experienced Editor behind it to eyeball and correct any errors.  I hate to admit it, but speech rec has made dramatic improvements in its accuracy over the last few years.  It's here to stay, it's improving - and surprisingly, the people I work with really enjoy editing.

My concern though is when the old folks like me in the field retire, and many of us are getting close.  Newbies need the opportunity to get in the door and gain their experience in all specialties to take over as the older folks leave the field.  There needs to be mentors to continue to be available to these newbies to guide them along the way.  There are good schools out there, but to "learn it all" you really need to be actively working in the field on a job that gives the opportunity to learn all specialties.

This is my concern as speech recognition becomes more and more successful.  We will continue to need quality, seasoned transcriptionists to become quality, well rounded editors in the future. 

I've taught completely green people transcription, and I've taken newbies in and guided them along the way.  It is satisfying for me because someone took me green 15 years ago and gave me this opportunity, and for that I am eternally grateful.  Putting 3 kids through college was a lot easier thanks to my full time job and another part time job I had. 

Best of luck to all you newbies out there - if you can get your foot in the door at a local hospital, even working in house to start, its a good place to begin.  Gain all the experience you can.  I'm not sure working for these big shlock houses, the nationwide transcription companies, is the best place to start - it can be frustrating when you're given all the ESL docs and junk work and try to plug through it. 

Good luck newbies - keep on pluggin.  

you are being paid correctly at a certain line rate but if she cannot SHOW you how those figures are arrived at, I would be very leery that she is being less than honest with me.  If she knows exactly how she is figuring lines to pay you, she should be able to demonstrate to you how figures are arrived at.