"Anonymous Coward" - title suites you. Your post is completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed. And it proves my point. This country has a majority of the likes of you. Name calling, finger pointing with no real knowledge of things that go on outside of probably a 5 mile radius you live & work in. Only proves how in-secure & desperate you are in your 'so called' own country. Cheers mate!!

This is what you people don't understand. You don't have to be obsequious for your company to want you. Indians don't survive because of an "Yes Boss" attitude. Yes, I agree there are those kind of people in India too. But they are everywhere. The difference most Americans don't understand is between assertiveness & arrogance. Being able to say 'no' assertively isn't as easy as the regular arrogant American way. Majority of the people in this country don't understand this. While there will be a few Americans who made their ways to the top by just being obsequious, see how many of your own successful CEOs & CTOs are at that level, because they gave something extra. Yes, they were political & diplomatic, but they gave the company some level of returns which were much higher than their pay grades when they were climbing laders. Such success stories are more in India than anywhere in the world because our attitudes & up-bringing are that way & we know how to survive. Most Americans, don't want to do anything, but expect someone else to do good things. If you are one such person who wants all his/her rights handed over in a golden plate, you are living in a dream world. If you are one of those Americans who still keep ranting about how hard Americans worked in the 40s & 50s to really build this nation, you need to take inspiration from them & prove you've still got it in you. Quite frankly, the current American generation isn't even close to being what that American generation was. They just expect things to be handed to them & priviledges be granted without taking any efforts. Those guys really did the hard work to build a nation. You are lucky only because of them. Today, you guys don't do anything to keep it up. All you are used to is pointing fingers at others, who you know are better than you. Only because there is a majority of such 'finger pointers' in this country, you have issues. Take away all Asians who work in this country. You won't be able to survive. Instead of complaining about us, fight us in the competetion. We are not here to take away anyone's livelyhood. We just don't have any strong competetion here, so it's very easy for us to make it big here. You want to feel a competetive job industry? Come to India. You'll never be able to make it. The richest person in the world today is an Indian. The richest person in the UK is an Indian. But the richest person in US is not an Indian. It means you have it in you to make it. You just don't want to take the efforts anymore.

While I do support American sentiments of feeling betrayed in their own country by their own people, I would say - "Take a hard look at yourselves." Cost saving is one way of looking at outsourcing, but if the quality of work was so low, no company would've continued doing it. Goodwill in the market matters as much as low cost of operations. I'm an Indian working in the US. I completely agree that an US Citizen could easliy do the job I am doing. But will the company I work for get as much from him/her as they do from me? Certainly no. For an American employee, Friday is to be treated like a weekend, even if you cannot finish your assigned work, you won't work for 1 extra min in the office, you want un-reasonably high billing rates, you will "NEVER" think out of the box & only do the tasks assigned to you & when anything more is requested out of you, the only answer received is "It's not my job". You will never be flexible, you will never adjust one bit & you will continuously keep on reminding the company about all legal actions you can take against them even if 1 tiny thing doesn't go your way. You will never understand the difference between professionalism & personal emotions. You expect the company to nurture you. Why? Businesses are formed with the sole motive of profit & not to give you preference over that priority. Now, why would my company want to employ you? I get paid more than a lot of Americans I work with. Even then I am requested to be here in the US. If you think I am taking over your opportunities in an un-fair way, prove you are even half as good as I am. I am sure, the company would send me back the min such an American worker is found.