>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.

I agree. It's times and news like this that make me at least partially glad I chose the fed gov't for the last job I took (not thinking at all about outsourcing at the time, 12 years ago - mainly just the benefits and stability during bad economic times around 1990). But I did get ensconced in a position that's very difficult to outsource, that part I've been planning for some years now.

But of course the Bush (and Clinton, as well) administration is trying to outsource everything in government thing they can, so I have to be concerned now too. And I'm not saying the Bush people intend to directly outsource gov't jobs to non-US citizens, but it's gonna work out that way to some degree, and we all know it.

One more comment: I mean no offense to anyone, and the individuals I speak of were very likable people, but I should've known what was coming 15 years ago, when my Grad School class was more than 50% from India, on various corporate scholarships (very sharp tech/math students they were, too), and they planned to go back and train others in India after receiving degree, after learning US way of life, etc...I feel like an idiot now for not seeing all this coming back then...not that I could've done anything about it.