8 April 2005

We can take our ship anywhere we want

Forget outsourcing, these enterprising minds are planning a slave ship for computer programmers, parked in international waters, to avoid dealing with immigration visa issues.
Take a used cruise ship, plant it in international waters three miles off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, people it with 600 of the brightest software engineers they can find around the world (both men and women), and run a 24-hour-a-day programming shop, thereby avoiding H-1B visa hassles while still exploiting offshore labor cost arbitrage and completing development projects in half the time they’d take onshore or offshore.

“As more people have run the [offshore] gauntlet and found the joys of traveling to India coach class and having three weeks of stuff on their desk when they come back, [they discover] it’s much more disruptive than they ever imagined it would be,” explains Mr. Green.

Naturally, most of the "hires" will be from India. A prison boat, floating off the coast of California to supplant American professional workers.

Comments

DOES THAT MEAN MORE CALLS FROM PEOPLE OR TO SUPPORT PEOPLE I CAN BARELY UNDERSTAND? CRAP! (( I CAN DO A PERFECT GANDHI)) .... "OH GOLLY I AM BEING HAPPY TO HELP YOU TODAY SIR" *SOUNDING JUST LIKE GANDHI, I REALLY DO, AT LEAST THE KINGSLY GANDHI, OR MAYBE IT SOUNDS MORE LIKE APU FROM THE SIMPSONS I DUNNO*
THIS MIGHT BE A BETTER IDEAL THAN PRISONERS (IN ACTUAL PRISONS) HAVING THESE JOBS, I KNOW IT BUGS ME THINKING SOME PERSON CONVICTED OF FRAUD OR IDENTITY THEFT COULD BE DOING SURVEYS AND WORKING FOR PHONE INFO GATHERING PLACES.