KC Star OUTSOURCES to India, employees to train their replacements

WA98296

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Tue May-20-08 11:50 AM
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KC Star OUTSOURCES to India, employees to train their replacements

Terminated employees retain jobs until they train their new replacements.

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"Now, as if this weren't enough of a blow, the kicker is this: the employees will retain their employment until after their replacements - who are being flown in, and put up here in Kansas City - have been trained by the displaced employees. And furthermore, according to a blog comment from the best friend of one of those laid off, The Kansas City Star is not giving letters of recommendation to those being let go! Talk about serious insult to injury. "

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/770641/kansas_citians_are_angry_the_kansas.html

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adarling

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Tue May-20-08 11:58 AM
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1. been happening for a while

my aunt had to train her replacement at hewitt in chicago who was an indian. if she didn't train him she would lose all her unemployment benefits. these companies should be fined and congress needs to investigate..too bad they are only investigating NFL cheating and crap like that. so sad what is going on.

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Occulus

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Tue May-20-08 12:02 PM
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3. Sounds like they should train them to do some things very very wrong

I would certainly be looking for ways to completely sabotage the business if this were me. Hey, they're already not going to get letters of recommendation, right?

Train them to do bad things- perhaps even illegal things- and do so intentionally. There will be no justice in court over this, so I think the employees should take the concept into their own hands and do their level best to sink the paper on their way out the door.

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davidwparker

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Tue May-20-08 12:11 PM
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6. I saw this discussed on C-SPAN. They seem to be under the impression

that foreign workers are used when they can't find people to fill jobs. It hasn't occurred to them that people are getting fired and then companies are bringing in foreign workers.

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devilgrrl

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Tue May-20-08 12:00 PM
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2. I have a feeling that a lot of people in Kansas City are going to cancel their subscriptions...

Edited on Tue May-20-08 12:03 PM by devilgrrl

then again, maybe that's plan all along.

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ladjf

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Tue May-20-08 12:03 PM
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4. That business practice has been going on in the computer

industry for years. It's a clear demonstration of corporate greed, and in the long term, stupidity.

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KansDem

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Tue May-20-08 12:06 PM
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5. Has the Kansas City Star reported on the "Downing Street Minutes" yet?

Media group puts pressure on the Star

by Rhiannon Ross

Silence may be golden but not when it pertains to media coverage, said members of a greater Kansas City media reform group.

And they have vociferously taken to the streets to do something about it.

For several Wednesdays this summer, beginning at high noon, members of Citizens for Media Reform and their supporters have hawked blank newspapers or ones touting a big black question mark to curious passersby in front of The Kansas City Star building, 18th and Grand.

�Extra! Extra! Read nothing about it!� they shouted, with looks of mock confusion. Others carried protest signs making such declarations as �All Media is a mouthpiece for government.�

The goal? To turn up the volume on a story they believe the Star has insufficiently covered � the publication of eight UK government documents collectively known as the �Downing Street Memo.�

The memo, actual minutes of a security briefing between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a dozen of his cabinet members on July 23, 2002, details military action and political strategy for the Iraq war � nearly one year before the U.S. officially declared war on that country.

The London Times broke the story in May when it printed the full text of the memo.

�The memo reveals conclusively that the entire war was based on a lie � semantically a bundle of lies or under false premises,� Mike Murphy, a member of Citizens for Media Reform and a programmer for KKFI radio, said.

-more--
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