What is Going on...?

The IT situation in India is getting worse and worse...esp with the employees..why are we not happy?

What has happened to the IT industry? why is it any different from other jobs...in which you do work and are compensated for it?? why? I feel it is different because of the concept of outsourcing. I feel that if this whole IT had originated in India, the case would have been different. Which makes me feel that 'IT' in particular has nothing to do with this pattern. I feel if it were anything other than IT, that could be outsourced, the condition would be the same...So finally, we can boil down the culprit to the 'Outsourcing'.

But think again..why is outsourcing bad? See, folks out there in US and Europe and such, on a fine day, discovered that they can get their work done cheaper by outsourcing it to poor indians and such, as they need to pay little compared to what they have to pay out there to an equal. I feel the best bargain must have been this, that they do not have any other liability towards these employees- in the form of pension or gratuity or dont have to concern abt matters of HR, leave , concerns etc etc. they just get the work done for which they pay a fixed amount.

We indians were more than happy because of the exchange rate of the currency they pay....but...this is supposed to look like the "so they lived happily ever after" ending of a fairy tale...but why isnt it so....well think....and think again. If they pay an engineer $40 per hour(lets just imagine)in the US, but they hire me for even $20 per hour...if i work even 8 hrs a day( we work for 9.5 or more)..i would get around Rs 7200. which means if I work for 20 days a month, i get 1 lakh 44 thousand bucks in my hand....the yankies are double happy, and iam...lets see...around 9 times more happy(dont you dare calculate my salary...stop it :-p). So where is the problem...

The problem is , it doesnt work that way....they dont come around looking for you..and employ you directly as we imagined... that is where the problem creeps in... Some good old heads(some even white) sniffed it out before us..that they could stand in the middle and take the money and give us some tit bits and say: "hey , ur not grown up yet to handle this money...papa will keep it for you:"...

hmm well...still lets just speculate ..the yankie indian deal too was a kind of similar one..with papa yankie swallowing half of the catch. may b we could negotiate here too...in the current situ....well lets calculate...

$20 * 9.5(our time) * 20 days * 45(approx exchange rate)=Rs 171000
average starter salary - 20,000...

So 20,000/171000 *100 =11.69%

So here goes...papa takes almost 88 % and gives us the 12 %....

story doesnt end here...cos this is supposed to go smooth still...as 20,000 is something everybody doesnt get...(b4)..

they add along with this...their dirty work extracting tricks, work politics...i dont need to write it all, u know...

So finally what do we have? an overworked, under paid, unastisfied under aged mortal...who doesnt have time to think, eat, sleep, spend time with the family etc because his deadlines have to be met...bugs have to be reported...etc etc...unhappy wives...neglected chilren, and a bunch of diseases, increase in traffic, pollution, rent, accidents, infertility, depression, cutting down of trees, global warming, floods etc etc etc ....all for feeding the yankie papas and our indian papas...

IS IT WORTH THE STRUGGLE?.....THE SACRIFICE? all the overtimes, night outs... ?

Its time we start THINKING...we have forgotten to think in the middle of all this..

If we have the brain..the knowledge, and experaince..., arent we grown enough?