I watched 'Outsourced' recently and found it to be an incredibly endearing film.
Have you lost your job in the last few months? In the last few years?
For Americans, corporate outsourcing has caused a lot of grief. If you were with a company when they first brought on Indian and Chinese offices, you remember well the frustration coming from these new well meaning employees that simply didn't have your training and whom you knew would ultimately be taking over your job.
Ayesha makes a good point in the film about how Americans support outsourcing: We make decisions in how we spend our money.
Are you deliberate in buying American made goods?
Granted, these days, not much is left to be manufactured in the US. Our decisions and those of corporations have driven much production outside of our borders.
Back to the movie.
Jeffcoat does a great job of plucking a less-traveled man from the comfort of American city life to the reality that is India. Granted, it is the only India I know from other movies I have watched as I have not visited personally, though it matches accounts from friends who have traveled there.
My experience leaving the Phnom Phen airport is not dissimilar to that of character, "Toad" as he peers from his tuk-tuk to the poverty and daily life a part of India's culture. His arrogance in training his new offshore office obvious and hilarious as you quickly figure out -if not before watching the film, that he would learn to appreciate and respect this new culture.
