Hi all !
There was a Dilbert strip not terribly long ago where it turned out that Dilbert's company had outsourced some work, and the outsourcer had subcontracted to the lowest bidder, ... Exactly what I thought at once, exactly the same recall. Here is the original text (I hope cartoon's reproduction copyright won't apply in such case

: Dilbert said "we outsourced our customer-service function to india a few years ago, who subcontracted the job to mexico, who subcontracted to vietnam, who subcontracted to philippines, who subcontracted to us who are the lowest cost provider for we lie about our hold times. In summary we pay ourselves to hose ourselves... Are you thinking what I am thinking (hoping a "stop outsoursing") ?". Pointy haired boss' answer was "raise our prices ?".
It was quite funny. No, it was VERY funny

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Eric LEMAITRE
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