Insourcing
Nov. 19th, 2005 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackhttp://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/18/bris_backpackers_tak.html
(British backpackers working in Indian call centres, rather than Australian fruit farms, to pay for their next bit of trekking)
It's scarcely surprising; friend-of-a-colleague is doing it now, working at a call-centre as an authority on the English. I was a little more surprised to meet, in a tandoori restaurant in New Delhi, a Liverpudlian who'd gone to India in order to take Microsoft and Cisco certified-professional exams with training in English from one of the Indian universities.
Not sure that'll be a success, but it's an interesting comparison to make; Liverpool living costs plus 3000/yr tuition fees go, I suspect, an awful lot further in Delhi. Staying long-term in a 3* hotel in Bangkok costs rather less than I paid in rent for a shared house in Gloucestershire, for example.
(British backpackers working in Indian call centres, rather than Australian fruit farms, to pay for their next bit of trekking)
It's scarcely surprising; friend-of-a-colleague is doing it now, working at a call-centre as an authority on the English. I was a little more surprised to meet, in a tandoori restaurant in New Delhi, a Liverpudlian who'd gone to India in order to take Microsoft and Cisco certified-professional exams with training in English from one of the Indian universities.
Not sure that'll be a success, but it's an interesting comparison to make; Liverpool living costs plus 3000/yr tuition fees go, I suspect, an awful lot further in Delhi. Staying long-term in a 3* hotel in Bangkok costs rather less than I paid in rent for a shared house in Gloucestershire, for example.
