Offshoring Memes

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I Love My Country's Job Market

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3 days ago 75.3K views 0 shares

I Love My Country's Job Market

The global tech economy in one Spongebob meme. American devs living in cardboard boxes after their jobs got shipped overseas, while developers in India/Eastern Europe are living like royalty earning $15/hour. Meanwhile, the C-suite congratulates themselves on "optimizing workforce costs" while their app crashes in production because nobody documented the legacy codebase. The circle of tech life continues...

The Chain Of Command

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2 months ago 124.6K views 0 shares

The Chain Of Command

The perfect illustration of how a $5,000 website magically transforms into a $50 project after six layers of outsourcing! This is basically the tech industry's version of telephone game, except everyone's wallet gets progressively lighter. What starts with a clueless business owner willing to shell out thousands ends with some poor developer in India coding an entire website for the price of a pizza. Meanwhile, every middleman takes their cut while adding zero value except the phrase "I know a guy." And the best part? The original client still has no idea when their website will be ready. Spoiler alert: it won't be.