>>The front page of the UT could not have been timelier:
>> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/08/11/training.replacements.ap/index.html
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>There's an article in the Wash Post (yesterday, was it?) that discussed a next logical step, which is already underway - outsourcing *tech support* to overseas, at least everything IT depts can possibly get away with (email tech support, forum moderators...at a minimum).
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>Not that tech support has glowing reviews by consumers anyway, of course...

You have to wonder how desperate someone is that they would be prepared to train the Indian successors to their own job. What an insult! My notice would be submitted within seconds, and any Systems / Business knowledge would be out the door just as soon as my contract permitted.