Just read earlier this week about personal outsourcing–having subcontractors do those jobs that are time-consuming yet not cost effective for you to do yourself–and how it may be the wave of the future, just as the blight of it has taken over the corporate work force.
And I just got a taste of it today.
As a business I’m used to still getting loads of solicitors calling but this was a new one: A dentist in Avon, just a town or two over, has evidently chosen to use the cheaper Indian labor force rather than his receptionist’s time (or a mom who needs extra money, a high school kid saving for college, and so on) to call randomly within the area to bolster up business with an offer of a free cleaning.
Dear Lord, if a man is dopey enough to have somebody half a world away call me when I’m under ten miles from his door, using non-American workers, then by jimminy you can bet your bippy I wouldn’t trust him around my teeth.
And he probably shouldn’t trust my teeth around him either.
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