The sad part about it all is everyone is mostly looking out for themselves no matter how it affects anyone else while being quick to blame someone else for there problems.

One laughable example is a hotel I once worked for. The mere word “outsourcing” struck such fear into so many thousands and was so hot at the time, that they actually threatened employees with outsourcing.

The employees were frightened when they heard this, until I pointed out that we were a hotel – and outsourcing bartenders, waiters and room attendants to Mexico or China made no sense at all – the hotel was in NYC.

Ford made the point that he paid his employees twice what other car manufacturers paid so they would be able to afford to buy cars. The worse off the economy is, the less everyone has to spend. When everyone sends what little money there is out of the country to third world businesses we’re no longer supporting our economy and competing for customers (because the American workers are our customers) but spiraling our economy ever further downward with diminishing returns ending in our becoming a third world nation ourselves. With the manufacturing economy dead, too many businesses are reading “service economy” as “economy services” when they should understand that what drives the American economy is now services – to outsource means to kill the only economy we have left.

It’s hard from a business standpoint to choose the more expensive option but I’ve researched overseas design firms for a company I was with. When we gave them a job, they turned around something which was NOWHERE near what we expected after seeing their portfolio. It turns out, they added these great sites of big companies to their portfolio after they had only done work on some minor segment of the company’s site.

So now we were stuck in a contract with this firm who had no idea what we wanted. I started coaching them on how they should look into our competitor’s designs and emailed them a few links pointing out the design features like elegance, white space, etc. that were needed in a site like ours that was trying to get clients to come check out our business after seeing the site. But they just didn’t get it – they kept sending back their same initial design asking what would you like us to change.

If I was going to sketch it up and send them exactly what we wanted, I may as well have made the site and sent it to shopHTML to convert into the site.

Needless to say, we didn’t pay them the remaining percentage of the balance due at the end of our contract, but we still lost a big chunk of money.