>>So there's 19,000 (more) people HERE (U.S. and Canada) who will be in the lineup for another McJob and spending all their hard-earned dough at WalMart!
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>Or, 19,000 people more in India, who now have a job. Depending what side you are looking at...

First I should note that SAP was mentioned in the short news item too, so there is the possibility that it is SAP (less impact on NA I guess) and not MS.

Sure it's good for Indians and India. BUT why does it have to be for one, at the expense of another?????
And I wonder how many of the jobs, if not all, are replacements for jobs liquidated here (or there if SAP) (i.e. not new jobs).

This now standard method of LOWERING some ships to raise others may be fine when it involves things, but when it involves PEOPLE it is distinctly WRONG.
It clearly is exploitation of the highest order, and when salaries get too high in india they'll be off to China. A very few get very very rich and the rest get poorer and poorer in the longer run.

THIS SIMPLY STINKS