Who's offshoring/onshoring/outsourcing/insourcing

[Sapphocrat]

Just found a lengthy list of American companies that are, and aren't, outsourcing jobs overseas.

I've been looking for a list like this for some time, as I try valiantly to boycott companies sending our jobs to India, etc., and screwing American workers in the process.

My little individual boycott certainly won't break Hewlett-Packard's back, but at least I can sleep better at night. (And by passing this along, perhaps a few more DUers doing the same thing will start a snowball effect.)

So, no more L.L. Bean for me -- or Starbucks Frapuccino (ouch!), Schweppes, Sara Lee (oh, the pain!), Ball Park franks, Dannon yogurt, or Chili's baby back ribs. Not sure if I can kick the Coca-Cola habit straightaway... but looking over this abbreviated list, I realize that, between my offshore boycott and my refusal to eat U.S. beef ever again, how much healthier I'm going to be.

Hmm... Playtex is on the list, too. Guess it won't be a big deal to find a different bra manufacturer. Giving up those nifty plastic-applicator tampons will be tough, but then, I don't need to be polluting the environment with more plastic, do I?

You know what? I think I've found the one good thing the Bush* administration has done for me: It's forcing me to be a healthier and more responsible denizen of Planet Earth! :D

Okay, enough editorializing. Here's the link to the list (scroll down a few clicks to find it):

http://www.onshorealternatives.com/

[BeatleBoot]

1. Maybe I read it incorrectly, but

LL Bean is NOT offshoring.

Is that correct?

[revcarol]

3. During Christmas, the operator definitely had a "Mainer" accent

at L. L. Bean.

[Sapphocrat]

5. Oops! My bad!

Thanks for pointing that out (and my apologies to L.L. Bean).

Whew! Good! I still have an alternative to Levi's!

[DebJ]

2. 1300 Earthlink jobs, 400 of them around the corner from me, cut per the

news last night, but all the press release from Earthlink said was that the jobs were being 'outsourced'. Today, I find they were 'outsourced' to Jamaica.

[Gin]

4. TJ Max and Best Buy....sell other companies products.....it seems

silly for them to be on the offshore list....but...I am saving this page...and shifting my buying habits accordingly.

[punpirate]

6. Not really...

... the outsourcing trend today is largely in services--customer service, office people such as managers, buyers and clerical help. Even if they're not manufacturers, there are jobs which can be placed elsewhere for the sake of profit.

[lovedems]

7. Isn't it ironic that Wal Mart, who has draped themselves in the

american flag is offshoring? I remember a few years back all of their "made in the usa" or "american made" commercials. I am not confusing them with someone else am I? Oh well, I am an avid hater of wal-mart. I haven't stepped foot in a wal-mart store in 2 years. I have a Target!:)

[are_we_united_yet]

11. How do I say this Wal-mart ....

well ....they suck

[solinvictus]

8. CIGNA

If you have CIGNA health insurance, it's likely your claim was imaged and processed in either Central America or India.

[Sapphocrat]

9. That's another thing that hasn't had enough public airing yet...

...Americans' "private" medical and other personal information wending its way across the globe.

Two words: identity theft. That may seem obvious to us, but the message is not getting across to Joe Sixpack. One of these days, when Ol' Joe has a rude awakening, CIGNA or H&R Block (which, I believe, outsources data processing to India) or the like is going to wind up as defendant in one huge class-action lawsuit.

Somebody (on DU?) said recently that if you do business with such companies, you can count on the fact that every piece of your life is already fair game to international I.D. brokers.

Seems positively negligent to me.

[foreigncorrespondent]

10. Ok, seem as how I am in Australia...

...there aren't too many I can boycott, but from the list I will be boycotting:

Champion, Haynes, Levi-Strauss, Playtex, (getting my friend to boycott) wonderbra (I don't personally use them), Electrolux, Maytag, Whirlpool, White-Westinghouse, Avis Rent-a-car, Coca-cola (ouch), Dannon, Evian (ouch), Fanta, Lipton (ouch), Miller Brewing (ouch! I will shout myself some MGD every so often only because it is $16 for a six pack here in Oz, but not anymore), Mountain Dew, Pepsi (not that I drink it anyway, but still), Amazon, all the computer companies on the list, Sara-Lee, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola (ouch), Reebok, Ambi Pur, Prudential, AOL, eBay, Yahoo (gonna move my lists), and United Airlines.

[Andy_Stephenson]

12. Capitol One credit card co.

is outsourcing to Inda...bangalore. I was told by the customer rep that..."If we don't outsource we will have to go bankrupt" and "they speak pretty good english"...I cancelled my acount.

[are_we_united_yet]

13. OK I have a question...

Health care costs keep going up each year, yet every health care company in this list offshores/outsources which I thought was supposed to make it "more competetive". I can't wrap my brain around that one.

[Sapphocrat]

14. Easy...

They lied.