More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2009
  • A new Department of Labor report finds personal outsourcing is revolutionizing how Americans dont do their own work.
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  • @SJNaka101
    @SJNaka101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11038

    The conference call ended me

    • @fds7476
      @fds7476 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Wait, are you from Soviet Russia?

    • @fds7476
      @fds7476 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Im not racist I swear That's a shame.

    • @chameeleon14
      @chameeleon14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Looks like an unintended double entendre. In Soviet Russia,...

    • @zamirprod.9033
      @zamirprod.9033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @NeLeeSawn
      @NeLeeSawn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too!!!

  • @chupacabra9357
    @chupacabra9357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31806

    What a missed opportunity. At the end, they could've switched the first anchorman with an Indian guy just for the joke.

    • @mrkoala5127
      @mrkoala5127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2747

      Zain Chupacabra hello this is the Onion. Congratulations on your new job. You will be starting tomorrow.

    • @minivanmilf4058
      @minivanmilf4058 5 ปีที่แล้ว +540

      Ya but he’s just talking through one of the speaker phones

    • @FirstUsername
      @FirstUsername 5 ปีที่แล้ว +330

      @@mrkoala5127 I'm sure he'll be outsourcing his newfound job by Tuesday.

    • @mrkoala5127
      @mrkoala5127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      J 😂

    • @ankitmahajan4036
      @ankitmahajan4036 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

      I am from India and the incomes shown are still much higher than what the companies pay here.

  • @thegreeneyedpanda7503
    @thegreeneyedpanda7503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4068

    This has actually happened with a programmer making 250k a year giving his work to some Chinese guy for 50k a year

    • @ritwikreddy5670
      @ritwikreddy5670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +382

      This happens much more than that comes out. I know some people who live on such work

    • @frtard
      @frtard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +347

      I'm not sure whether to laugh, hate myself for not thinking of this earlier or start researching Indian job sites.

    • @yagomizuma2275
      @yagomizuma2275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      all jokes age bad or becomes true

    • @ankitmahajan4036
      @ankitmahajan4036 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@frtard in all seriousness, i am currently looking for a job. So if you have something that i can work on, do let me know and will give you my email.

    • @pupstermobster8567
      @pupstermobster8567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      50k is good even in America.

  • @NiravGandhi96
    @NiravGandhi96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8461

    Non-fake thing is, at 68 cents an hour and a 9 hour-a-day work, you earn about 300 indian rupees -- the actual median working wage even in 2018.

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +865

      Holy shit.

    • @kurousagi8155
      @kurousagi8155 5 ปีที่แล้ว +750

      It’s actually about 74 cents per hour assuming 9 hour work days and a 300 day year.
      Median Indian Income is about $1,977.29 as of March, 2018. In terms of Indian Rupees, that’s 69.33 Rupees per dollar, so that would be 137,085.52 Rupees a year.
      Edit: an Indian would need to work 323.09 days a year on 68 cents an hour, 9 hours a day to get that money.

    • @sethrich5998
      @sethrich5998 5 ปีที่แล้ว +820

      This isn’t even a joke. I worked at a small company as an engineer and the CEO was a patent attorney. We had all the skill sets to write our own patents. We still sent our patent application writing to India and just reviewed it because it was more cost effective. You could have an entire team working on it for a month for same cost as one day of work here.

    • @gamepocalypsegaming278
      @gamepocalypsegaming278 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Oh my god. That’s terrible.

    • @interestingvideos6978
      @interestingvideos6978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      Antenna2heaven its 1.3 billion people here, need this good economy to continue for 30,40 years for poverty to eradicate itself. We are still better off from when we had no privatization at all we had 80% poverty rate that time now it is around less than 20%.

  • @thegoat5141
    @thegoat5141 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4328

    How is business going for Named Khalili nowadays? He must be getting close to establishing a monopoly on outsourced work. Lucky him

    • @nonrumor
      @nonrumor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      He's making an astonishing 50 cents a day

    • @Dogpool
      @Dogpool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      He changed his strategy to giving away work. He gets 0 money, but makes up for it in volume.

    • @bhvillaman4401
      @bhvillaman4401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      He's now on 2 handfuls of rice a day

    • @kirbyj5704
      @kirbyj5704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He could outsource to me

    • @mYnAME-ww9iv
      @mYnAME-ww9iv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not too bad actually!
      He is growing poppies for the Talibs now, he even got to keep 60% of his sales!

  • @traingp7
    @traingp7 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12168

    I'm paying a nickel a day to a starving Chinese man to write my you tube comments for me.

    • @shawnfox1100
      @shawnfox1100 10 ปีที่แล้ว +576

      我喜欢为你工作!

    • @Jefff72
      @Jefff72 5 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      我付你6美分

    • @EmpireTVDragon
      @EmpireTVDragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      @Tazmore besides, TH-cam is banned in China

    • @josephstalin6549
      @josephstalin6549 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      It’s actually 50 cents

    • @rhysstanley7387
      @rhysstanley7387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Tazmore yeh man its nt that funny.

  • @diego17k
    @diego17k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3933

    The poorest man will be doing 83% of the world's work lmfaoo

    • @goyonman9655
      @goyonman9655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      killed me

    • @aymanelkadouri8235
      @aymanelkadouri8235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah hahahahahah

    • @phaggott
      @phaggott 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      💀💀💀

    • @andreasgrimsland4519
      @andreasgrimsland4519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      This predicted my future

    • @OrionTails
      @OrionTails 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's 2020, let's wait for that to happen.

  • @mosesracal6758
    @mosesracal6758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1202

    As a Filipino, Im proud of my fellow countrymen doing the work for the Dept. of Labor. Soon we'll be outsourcing our jobs to places such as Micronesia

    • @ranjanbiswas3233
      @ranjanbiswas3233 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What? Not being the middle or high school teachers in American schools?

    • @gayjoebiden
      @gayjoebiden ปีที่แล้ว

      why would they use inferior fillpinos when they can get indians and chinese?

    • @swipergangjohnwicks
      @swipergangjohnwicks ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or the nurses in American hospitals???

    • @ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available
      @ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Micronesia 😂😂😂
      Good one, sir! Even sounds like a real country run by Bill Gates

    • @8ahau279
      @8ahau279 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1AvailableIt is a real country

  • @noahreese9469
    @noahreese9469 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6497

    It’s sad that the onion can no longer be successful due to current news already being a joke

    • @simeonb3726
      @simeonb3726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +407

      I heard all the workers at the Onion were outsourced to CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other MSM companies. It doesn't look like they changed their job descriptions either...

    • @Camcolito
      @Camcolito 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@simeonb3726 They were both funnier and more accurate at the Onion.

    • @noahreese9469
      @noahreese9469 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Simeon B interesting concept...

    • @christianmoore7109
      @christianmoore7109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Noah Reese yeah a Verizon executive actually did this a while back and outsourced their own job.

    • @mista_fur3346
      @mista_fur3346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Checkmate huh?

  • @prashantsolanki007
    @prashantsolanki007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +797

    I used to solve homework & assignments of Students in USA for $1 to $2. On a good day I would make easy $15 to $20 and that was more than what my father would make everyday.

    • @nicoles_handle
      @nicoles_handle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      damn sign me up

    • @pointlesslylukesplainingpo1200
      @pointlesslylukesplainingpo1200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      How tf do u do 20 assignments in 1 day

    • @EojinsReviews
      @EojinsReviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @@pointlesslylukesplainingpo1200 Different age levels + solver being knowlegable in math = more than enough skill to do 20 assignments per day. And they said "on a good day".

    • @HokageG
      @HokageG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@pointlesslylukesplainingpo1200 because he's a cheat accepting money to help other people commit fraud. who cares about ethics?

    • @olly_1558
      @olly_1558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Nice grind kid

  • @nou4605
    @nou4605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +812

    I mean, it's basically how the whole IT Services industry functions. The offshore team makes peanuts while the PowerPoint savvy CEO pockets the dollars.

    • @cs-mi8ur
      @cs-mi8ur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      IT services work is like being a technical Clark,one guy in team with good knowledge while some others having avg tech skills working with help from him.

    • @imt3206
      @imt3206 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fortunately it is so!

    • @hoagielamp6543
      @hoagielamp6543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@imt3206 Why? I'd much rather the capital goes to those who create it rather than the dickhead that dresses it up.

    • @imt3206
      @imt3206 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hoagielamp6543 Because it is so, I mean, it doesn't get any simpler.

    • @gailschnitzer5089
      @gailschnitzer5089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      the PowerPoint savvy CEO should also be outsourced as well!

  • @DrDomich
    @DrDomich 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3727

    "meth epidemic is hitting worthless American hardest" 😂😂😂

    • @acepilotson3331
      @acepilotson3331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      The best line in the whole thing.

    • @canadude2010
      @canadude2010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@acepilotson3331 this was the saddest and harshest line of all...

    • @acepilotson3331
      @acepilotson3331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      cana dude hilarious and clever as a satirical news story. Sad reality. True in either respect.

    • @5gonza541
      @5gonza541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      cana dude A REEEAAALY heavy blow

    • @SovietRussia777
      @SovietRussia777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      poor iowa

  • @Tuckertuckerd
    @Tuckertuckerd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    1,380 dollars is about 80,000 rupees that is actually more than what my father makes monthly.

    • @onlylonly888
      @onlylonly888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's actually yearly salary

    • @jarjarklinks
      @jarjarklinks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@onlylonly888 It's still more than what a fresher would earn.

  • @_thechosen
    @_thechosen 8 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    I have outsourced my life. I no longer have to live in this cruel and hopeless world because my outsourcee now lives it for me. Lifetime upfront payment was sure worth it!

    • @bonson9156
      @bonson9156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      your husband?

    • @alphasierra.
      @alphasierra. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How and how much? Asking for a friend, of course

    • @legendgames128
      @legendgames128 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How is that new soul in your old body doing?

  • @superastral1
    @superastral1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5487

    I believe the onion has stoped doing this kind of satire because they have predicted everything that is happening and it would be imposible to top the absurdity of the present events, the real news have become the onion, if the onion decided to make parodies of the news again it would be like making parodies of themselves. The snake has bitten her tail

    • @-jore7581
      @-jore7581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Lord Admiral Spire nobody has ever wanted that

    • @richardordonez8331
      @richardordonez8331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Google executive is Indian.is he outsourced? 😆

    • @kakakkkakakk6245
      @kakakkkakakk6245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      I wish they'd still do these kind of videos. They're just too good.🙄

    • @yeet9csgo798
      @yeet9csgo798 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@-jore7581 It's based off reality though - A feminist created a chair designed to force men's legs closed lmao

    • @-jore7581
      @-jore7581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@yeet9csgo798 yeah one person do you honestly think that's realistic? Your average feminist just wants equality and less rape, which we are pretty close to having

  • @varunpathak2678
    @varunpathak2678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Funny thing is this actually happened, one guy got caught after company found suspicious activity on their VPN, and found that work was being uploaded from China!!

    • @ritwikreddy5670
      @ritwikreddy5670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      This happens a lot. I know some people who do such works. There are even companies dedicated to do outsourced work of American employees.

    • @khalilmohammadmirza4070
      @khalilmohammadmirza4070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      This happens a lot, I happen to create a company around it.

    • @georgecabrera9039
      @georgecabrera9039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@khalilmohammadmirza4070 I don't know why you would be proud of stealing Americans jobs, these aren't back breaking jobs no one wants, but jobs that would sustain a family and now corporations pay peanuts for the same work.

    • @khalilmohammadmirza4070
      @khalilmohammadmirza4070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@georgecabrera9039 All my outsourced jobs have an hourly rate of 50$ per hour at least.
      These jobs cost a lot more to do in America but outside America you only need to provide a good hourly rate if you want good talents. That's what I provide.

    • @khalilmohammadmirza4070
      @khalilmohammadmirza4070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@georgecabrera9039 Also, I did not steal any jobs.
      Americans are willingly offering these jobs, mainly because it's a lot cheaper to do it outside America.
      I did not get these jobs on gun point or anything.

  • @Cernunnnos
    @Cernunnnos 11 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    "I'm just trying to get to a point, where I can lay in one place and not have to do anything ever."
    Aren't we all bro, aren't we all.

    • @ryannarby4519
      @ryannarby4519 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So many people may as well be living out this goal.

    • @Cernunnnos
      @Cernunnnos ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ryannarby4519 jesus christ you pulled this one up from the depths.

    • @ryannarby4519
      @ryannarby4519 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Cernunnnos This was the best show ever. I'll be watching these 2-minute videos on a repeating cycle until I'm dead.

    • @ryannarby4519
      @ryannarby4519 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And I’m back again. Jfc

    • @PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS
      @PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What a fucking mood

  • @leonardford4139
    @leonardford4139 7 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    this was played at the end of my lecture on outsourcing lol good vid holds up well

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    "Lightning storm kills one, reanimates 2"

    • @RazorM97
      @RazorM97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      philosophical joke

    • @gewuerzwanze5627
      @gewuerzwanze5627 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      the lord taketh and he giveth away

    • @hazukichanx408
      @hazukichanx408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly, one of those reanimated was, once again, Jason Voorhees.

  • @Monkeyonasuit
    @Monkeyonasuit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +659

    I get that the wages they mention are supposed to sound low but I'm a college student from the Philippines and that still sounds like a lot of money for me

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      67 cents sounds like a lot to you?

    • @gladehartdreamer5620
      @gladehartdreamer5620 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      thats exactly why this stuff happens in the first place

    • @walesdoesntsuck6635
      @walesdoesntsuck6635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      @@Seth9809 No, a handful of rice

    • @Balsiefen
      @Balsiefen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Superb. Unrelatedly, I might have an interesting business opportunity for you...

    • @ankitmahajan4036
      @ankitmahajan4036 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Bro i am India and i can tell you, the wages here are even lower today!

  • @23026614
    @23026614 10 ปีที่แล้ว +803

    Ok Jamie Oliver From Texas assigned me to respond this video. He says Quote" hahah thats funny shit! "unquote.

    • @ZhangtheGreat
      @ZhangtheGreat 10 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Troll Johnson has outsourced me to reply to Mr. Oliver: "No shit Sherlock."

    • @alexthebudgie9071
      @alexthebudgie9071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      ‘Jamie Oliver is a famous chef in England. Was it that Jamie? ‘-stevie Larkin’s asked me to say this. I, being paid 1 kit kat for this comment.

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Linus Torvalds told me to, you know what, I quit, in fact "Come get me you nitwits, I'm Linus and.,ghey get awayfrom kme.cxz

  • @mujahidshaikh5034
    @mujahidshaikh5034 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Being software engineer in india I can confirm this is what's really happening. Onion was way ahead.

  • @wellofbeersheba
    @wellofbeersheba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    That video he is watching at 0:40 is still on TH-cam. He has it at 5 views, it now has 1,838 views.

  • @37Jhian
    @37Jhian ปีที่แล้ว +86

    This is actually happening in the company i work in, apparently we are an accounting firm and pretty much most of our clients are oversees since they pay a lot more than the actual locals. They pretty much give us ludicrous amount of accounting work that would take hours and sometimes even nightshifts to process but thankfully we managed to automate the whole thing reducing the workload in less than half an hour while still being paid a few months worth of salary, based on my country's standard, per clients.

    • @jaycol21
      @jaycol21 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I remember automating my own job years ago and getting fired for it. I’d actually taken on way work than they’d originally hired me for. But, it didn’t “look” like I was working.
      They ended up hiring 3 people to do my job and one of them quit in like 2 months because his portion of my job was “too much work”.

    • @cameronschyuder9034
      @cameronschyuder9034 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jaycol21 that's such a stupid reason to fire you for. why should a company care about image if they still have the same if not greater output? smh

  • @Samurai-sg4yd
    @Samurai-sg4yd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    I am america home country worker man, Me speak america and did not having outsource this comment.
    -USA boy

    • @camper1749
      @camper1749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Are you John Michael Smith?

    • @nekko4565
      @nekko4565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lmaooo so funny 😂

    • @hazukichanx408
      @hazukichanx408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The very relatable feels, my homie. Much being in the a mood.

  • @cat-.-
    @cat-.- ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I outsourced my University classes to India and the guy did very well on all assignments I graduated with 3.85
    He is now send out resumes in my name. Soon I will have my first paycheck and ofcourse I won’t forget to pay him a handsome $12.5 per week

  • @booskie4316
    @booskie4316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I work as a massage therapist and I just let the homeless guy from outside take over once the client is face down.

    • @scottmatheson3346
      @scottmatheson3346 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      but what about when it's time for the happy ending?

    • @user-aeb87825
      @user-aeb87825 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@scottmatheson3346blindfold

  • @modove2842
    @modove2842 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    This is actually a pretty succinct way to explain the inequity between the class of ppl earning money for doing nothing, and the ppl they pay to do all the real work

  • @okrajoe
    @okrajoe 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1662

    I outsourced writing this youtube comment.

    • @cherylwittmann1160
      @cherylwittmann1160 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I outsourced replying to your youtube comment

    • @user-ee5he9oz3k
      @user-ee5he9oz3k 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I was the one who wrote his comment.

    • @grantrichardet6250
      @grantrichardet6250 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      okrajoe I outsourced parenting my kids

    • @commodoresixfour7478
      @commodoresixfour7478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi AHMED KHALILI!

    • @NESherv
      @NESherv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your comment may have been satire, buy you can actually do this now. Pay someone in India $5 on Fiverr and they'll manage a TH-cam account for you.

  • @isaac5538
    @isaac5538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Now in 2020 we can confirm that Ahmed Khalili is already doing 64% off the globes work... the trend is still going

  • @Bezos404
    @Bezos404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    It's supposed to be a joke, but things like these actually happen.

    • @cattysplat
      @cattysplat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Welcome to globalisation.

    • @TommyAngelo1337
      @TommyAngelo1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That's how satire works.

    • @justinnamuco9096
      @justinnamuco9096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It boosts both economies, though unequally.

    • @mehboobkm2018
      @mehboobkm2018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just the very thing happening in my firm now which handles outsourced jobs from US.

  • @roecocoa
    @roecocoa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Thank you for this excellent two-minute summary of "The 4-Hour Work Week."

  • @Jake_Ro_X
    @Jake_Ro_X 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    This is not satire, this is reality! As a Filipino this is very accurate, also that Avaya and Cisco teleconference meeting is funny AF. 🤣

    • @bentpen2805
      @bentpen2805 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It’s also just fundamental to capitalism-whether you outsource to another country or your own

    • @Greyalien587
      @Greyalien587 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Damn don’t hit me with the avaya and Cisco!!

  • @marcushendriksen8415
    @marcushendriksen8415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    I'm not going to lie, when he concluded that the world's poorest man, Ahmed Khalili of Afghanistan, would be doing 80% of the world's work, I laughed like crazy

    • @HWDragonborn
      @HWDragonborn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now that Taliban has taken over the country, I wonder if he was able to properly do my work and finish it on time.

  • @gameboygamer6498
    @gameboygamer6498 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The old guy building model airplanes at his desk is so wholesome.

  • @umutalp1517
    @umutalp1517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Watching pet videos whilst talking about unleashing full potential is just perfect. Every single moment of these news is piece of art.

  • @danieldorn2927
    @danieldorn2927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I come from the future
    You news station "The Onion" greatly helps us understand our history
    Best regards;
    Man from the future

    • @supernayandragon2496
      @supernayandragon2496 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Dorn this must be weird for all the people reading this comment when the video first came out!

  • @kaosstar
    @kaosstar 15 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    People actually do this! I used to read the blog of this computer programmer. He got 2 full time jobs and convinced both of his bosses to let him work from home. He outsourced all his work from Indiana, and just checked it over before turning it in. It's a little more expensive than they make it seem in the video, but still well worth it.

  • @sims.3852
    @sims.3852 7 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    I laughed so hard at this

    • @whocares397
      @whocares397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      not sure if i want to laugh or cry about my country being so dam lazy

    • @galaxy9radio664
      @galaxy9radio664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Did you outsource the laughter

    • @Merlin_YouTube
      @Merlin_YouTube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I paid someone a handful of rice to laugh at this for me

    • @loneranger7271
      @loneranger7271 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@whocares397 they worked hard before to not do now

  • @jaustin2737
    @jaustin2737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It's the arguing over conference calls that gets me every time 😂

    • @herp_derpingson
      @herp_derpingson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Now that all tech CEOs are Indian, just replace that with Zoom calls and it is actually happening.

  • @fallen546
    @fallen546 8 ปีที่แล้ว +820

    This is a joke, but actually possible, and some people do actually do it. haha

    • @GrammeStudio
      @GrammeStudio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      of all the onion-y sketches, this one is probably the most realistic

    • @0Clewi0
      @0Clewi0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Yeah, but wouldn't the US be in a better shape if the workers mostly outsourced their jobs instead of the corporation?

    • @starrodkirby
      @starrodkirby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      @@0Clewi0 the companies would rather lay off the middleman

    • @dr.lyleevans6915
      @dr.lyleevans6915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      0Clewi0 yep, the economy would remain mostly intact

    • @BayStatePrepper
      @BayStatePrepper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This video proves a lot of workers read Tim Ferriss' 4Hour Work_Week

  • @Flyborg
    @Flyborg 15 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    My first thought was that this is actually a clever idea that might actually work for some jobs. The next thought is that this is actually a pretty good description of the problem with globalization, IE the ability to import "virtual" slaves while remaining in a "free" country with "ethics".

    • @owski9
      @owski9 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dang 14 years

  • @oarandom3472
    @oarandom3472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "(my time)" -So underrated, he doesn't even bother to figure out his own time zone

  • @hattrickster33
    @hattrickster33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    The scary thing is that some of these "satire" videos are actually coming true.

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Paul r
      Why is it illegal?

    • @TommyAngelo1337
      @TommyAngelo1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's how satire works. It's not satire if you just make shit up.

    • @blemmyes
      @blemmyes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's already been true for thousands of years, ever since someone had the brilliant idea of making others do their work for them and keeping the profits.

    • @yagomizuma2275
      @yagomizuma2275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @KeanuBodypillo g also, what i9s the point in hiring the middle man

    • @Chironex_Fleckeri
      @Chironex_Fleckeri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theyoshi202 While it may not be criminal in most cases, when you work at most jobs you have what's called "at-will employment". It means that you and the company entered a contract that the company can terminate at any point for any (legal) reason. When you buy something at a store, that is a form of contract. The Facebook TOS reads like a contract as well. A contract includes: an offer, consideration, and acceptance. Consideration is the tricky one. It is something of value that each side expects to give up as their end of the contract.
      So, a company that hires you can reasonably expect that you will not share proprietary information, such as trade secrets, interal processes, and internal financial information. When you subcontract your own job, you are breaching this part of the contract. Not only can you be fired, it may bring litigation on your ass- especially if your work involves handling a client's sensitive information. Secretly subcontracting your own duties can also be fraudulent (criminal) for a number of reasons, especially the tax implications (including for your personal taxes, the organizations FICA tax liability, Obamacare, etc.) It's obviously a bad idea, but it can be reeeeally bad.
      Basically, you can be fired on the spot, potentially sued, and possibly even be prosecuted for fraud depending on what you did. There is civil law and criminal law. Breach of contract is civil. Fraud is criminal.

  • @ReaperKezia
    @ReaperKezia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    "The meth epidemic is hitting worthless Americans the hardest"
    I'm dying 😂🤣

  • @heisenberg8083
    @heisenberg8083 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So a company in the US has outsourced their jobs to us in Jamaica paying us under 3 usd an hour. I have outsourced all my work to Pradeep in India and I pay him 1 cent per day. I know I am paying too much, but he deserves it, he works really well.

  • @Dadusak
    @Dadusak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    one of the best videos on youtube. period.

  • @abcoincalsz
    @abcoincalsz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's scary how incredibly accurate this is. Accounting is facing serious crisis with outsourcing work to India

  • @HankTheTank23
    @HankTheTank23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My professor played this video during a lecture about offshoring. Awesome.

  • @WJen8
    @WJen8 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Years ago I laughed this off as a joke, but it wasn't until I became an operations manager that I realized it's not that unrealistic. I found a firm in India that was willing to do my systems maintenance and accounting work because the average income for their division is a fraction of my team's salary. To ensure the work is not just half-assed junk, I found an actuarial and auditing firm in China that would double-check their processes and numbers and reformat it for marketing, again because they were getting paid a fraction of what my team makes. I ended up doing about 3-4 hours of work every week to triple check their final submission and integrate it into my systems and was paid (and raised) at a normal growth rate. I have since started my own company that basically partners with overseas businesses looking for work at higher pay and market them to clients in this country looking to outsource. The system does the work for me once the algorithm and backup liaisons match companies together. I essentially make 6-7 figures (depending on total partnerships and clients) doing practically nothing. Strayed a bit from the concept of this video but still lol

  • @jakethomas7577
    @jakethomas7577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "according to the filipino team that completed the Department of Labor's report"

  • @marehemudanielarapmoi6424
    @marehemudanielarapmoi6424 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fun fact -
    You can outsource somebody to do all your undergraduate, masters and even PhD studies.
    You can hire actual PhD holders in Kenya and some other countries. (Fluent English speakers)
    They will do everything including research papers and very customized assignments.
    They do all your studies.
    You have fun and do your job.
    You graduate with a reasonable grade (dont be greedy)
    It will cost you a few thousand USD a year. Quite cheap.
    Their services are very popular in UK, US and AUS clients range from lazy or busy locals to foreign students who struggle with some programs or with time.

    • @JosifovGjorgi
      @JosifovGjorgi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are right, however AI took over their jobs
      th-cam.com/video/cNiF7r3Lreg/w-d-xo.html

  • @tybaltyrant1
    @tybaltyrant1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    that teleconference made me laugh so damn hard XD it sounded like my standard work teleconference

  • @RikerLovesWorf
    @RikerLovesWorf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "OKAY OKAY, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM HERE” is hilarious

  • @WhirlwindHeatAndFlash
    @WhirlwindHeatAndFlash 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How are you guys so insanely hillarious and how tf did i just learn of you this christmas.
    This is literally comedy gold LMAO.

  • @CharlieTheNerd91
    @CharlieTheNerd91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They predicted the Gig economy quite well :D

  • @TomJerry12933
    @TomJerry12933 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I saw that joke coming about the multioutsourced jobs....but it still got me
    lol

  • @SolidSnake59
    @SolidSnake59 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This really happened. One programmer was paying 20% of his wages to someone in India or China to do his work.

  • @ITS187MOB
    @ITS187MOB 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I just got done hitting up Ahmed Khalili to finish up my Essay for math, If he fuck around I'm going have to cut his holiday bonus.

  • @Luxcy
    @Luxcy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wonder how my local NY cashiers are doing...

  • @mika2666
    @mika2666 8 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    1:57 totally me

  • @GospelBearer
    @GospelBearer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “Am I a joke to you” -Fiverr

  • @Colon-D...
    @Colon-D... ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hoooly quacamole!!!! this is so A! Aged well!

  • @RodovalPTY
    @RodovalPTY 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How i missed this video for 10 years. this channel is epic

  • @Christobanistan
    @Christobanistan ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm dead serious. I've been doing this for 2 years. My office doesn't know, and I essentially give about a quarter of my tasks to a girl in Kazakhstan.

  • @EpicFallOut
    @EpicFallOut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I actually do this in my day-to-day job lol a lot of the tasks that I do at the lower level are encouraged to be deligated/outsourced to our "offshore" team, who often does a better job than I ever could

  • @dickbrocke
    @dickbrocke ปีที่แล้ว

    A fantastic initiative, without a doubt. This exchange program has worked out to be so successful for a number of decades in relation to both American presidents and vice-presidents as well.

  • @davidr9876
    @davidr9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm CFO in a mid-sized company and I've never had an accounting class and I can barely do math. But I know how to email and text so outsourcing is easy for me.
    Also, I won't hire employees who are not willing to outsource. American kids are too temperamental and entitled. You can't rely on them so when they quit and you have to replace them, just make sure the new hire outsources to the same person and wa-la, you have continuity.

    • @williammielenz3752
      @williammielenz3752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Your next. I'm a stock holder.

    • @RealTkco
      @RealTkco ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williammielenz3752 lol

  • @Scipionyxsam
    @Scipionyxsam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This actually happened in Germany, no joke.

    • @vio1583
      @vio1583 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      wo?

    • @Scipionyxsam
      @Scipionyxsam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vio1583 Forgot. It was in the news about 10 years ago. Some guy paid people in a 2nd world country quite a while to do his menial office work until he finally got caught.

  • @stuflames4769
    @stuflames4769 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The conference call was killer.
    This story is great, because it makes too much sense.

  • @tff2973
    @tff2973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Lighting storm kills one, reanimates two”
    Should we hate it or thank it?

  • @Hyreia
    @Hyreia 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ahmed Khalili! My hero! I was in stitches after that.

  • @vsssa1845
    @vsssa1845 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    No Joke, this is whats happening right now in lot of WFH jobs, especially in software, people are doing multiple wfh jobs and outsourcing all except the one they do.

  • @metal665lica
    @metal665lica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a Filipino who makes $250 a month, that last jab was painfully on point.

  • @MsClaudiaDuran
    @MsClaudiaDuran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is basically Tim Ferris's 'The 4-Hour Work Week'.

  • @Jefff72
    @Jefff72 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks to the Onion for giving me this idea, I can watch this at work. Thanks Reyansh. Oh I need that TPS report by 3 today and don't forget to put a cover letter on it!

  • @LibertarianUSA1982
    @LibertarianUSA1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I once watched a video of this American working in an office, he was secretly out sourcing his tasks to a guy in China. He would pay the Chinese guy with his only money. He was eventually caught and fired but he got paid for years doing this. I wish I could find the article.

  • @StephJ0seph
    @StephJ0seph 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    1:57
    _"I'm trying to get to a point where I can just lay in one place and not have to do anything ever"_
    *so he basically wants to die?*

    • @breakingbacon658
      @breakingbacon658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I mean... if you can still watch sports

    • @frtard
      @frtard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Eh, dying is too much work

  • @mybachhertzbaud3074
    @mybachhertzbaud3074 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this. I have been able to hire huge teams of people that will push these videos to me and make silly comments about them. I am still looking for a few good workers that will laugh at these for me. Keep up the good job!😜😜

  • @peevi
    @peevi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only news outlet whose stories are never dated!

  • @trekkienzl2862
    @trekkienzl2862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I know it's satire but when I was doing my masters degree in the 🇺🇸 States, I actually did outsource some of my research work to some girl in 🇰🇭 Cambodia for a price of $3.50 per page.
    It actually helped pay for her own studies as she had other clients from the 🇺🇸 U.S, 🇦🇺 Australia and 🇨🇳 China, and was in university herself.

    • @sanserof7
      @sanserof7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So you couldn't pay her a little more than 3.50 a page? Thats just unethical, you could have easily given more.

    • @emeraldfinder5
      @emeraldfinder5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sanserof7how much spare money do you think a university student has?

  • @HowToChangeName
    @HowToChangeName ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At this point Ahmed will lead the world as every president, PM and dictator also outsourced their responsibility

  • @Chan-qk9eh
    @Chan-qk9eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:00 lol! Such an underrated caption

  • @sapointi
    @sapointi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos never get old 😭😭

  • @dangerousraptor5439
    @dangerousraptor5439 10 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    OMG this is sooo smart! :D

    • @GrammeStudio
      @GrammeStudio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      would've been smarter and funnier if it was outsourcees reporting this

  • @mncpoops4005
    @mncpoops4005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:34 I miss old TH-cam...

  • @Amy-yb3pz
    @Amy-yb3pz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The call reminds me of our online classes.

  • @catsozen
    @catsozen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That conference call LOL! I'm dead.

  • @chadlancer6107
    @chadlancer6107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a professional dog Walker I outsource all of my work too, I just attach the leads to a drone and my intern in China fills in the rest for me

  • @Hippienolic2
    @Hippienolic2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    “It has allowed me to unleash my full potential” watching TH-cam video

  • @yyhewzies1415
    @yyhewzies1415 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this. PLZ DO More

  • @some_guy2911
    @some_guy2911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s 2024, and Khalil is now an oligarch in Afghanistan

  • @jasondads9509
    @jasondads9509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Be so good if this episode had outsourced speakers as well

  • @zorohibiki
    @zorohibiki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    a few years ago i read that a guy actually outsourced his own job to two guys in india
    and was fired when he was find out by his boss
    and like 2 years ago i read about a chinese hitman who outsourced a job to a guy who outsourced the job to a guy who outsourced the job to a guy who outsourced the job to a guy who outsourced the job to a guy who just asked the target victim to fake his death but the target instead called the police and the client the hitman and all the outsourced guys ended up in prison

  • @AlbornozVEVO
    @AlbornozVEVO ปีที่แล้ว

    best summary of Capital Vol. I

  • @LeonardEisen
    @LeonardEisen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is literally a real thing now. I know several high-paid finance employees who outsource large portions of their quantitative work.

  • @philswaim392
    @philswaim392 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I mean.... this is real news

  • @BlueDippy
    @BlueDippy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Why.
    Is this.
    Actually genius.

  • @ArtistNotFound123
    @ArtistNotFound123 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is insanely exactly what is happening today and I was stunned to see this is 13 years old at the time of my writing this

  • @dposting2941
    @dposting2941 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another term for this is "middle management."