Offshored
Losing a good paying job to a non-North American country often resulting in cost savings to greedy corporations at the expense of quality.
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offshore drilling
"We're headed to Costa Rica because we heard that there is great opportunity for offshore drilling there."
offshore drilling by Srini Balasubrian August 10, 2008
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offshore christmas
n. A Christmas Eve or Christmas Day spent offshore on a rig or platform in Norway. Usually celebrated with a large, elaborate meal and boxes of chocolates.
offshore christmas by vaeren December 18, 2006
offshore mom
a mother who shops at Pier 1, Cost Plus, or other such imported home furnishings stores so as to make herself appear more worldly
Example-
person 1: "Have you been to Stacy's house? It's in a track neighborhood but it's full of obscure scented candles and Native American artwork like a Pier 1 catalog."
person 2: "She must have an offshore mom."
person 1: "Have you been to Stacy's house? It's in a track neighborhood but it's full of obscure scented candles and Native American artwork like a Pier 1 catalog."
person 2: "She must have an offshore mom."
offshore mom by kit-KAT_2o1o August 8, 2009
offshore
1) n. The place in Norway to work.
2) adj. Unavailable for drinking/partying due to being on a rig.
3) v. Tricked, conned, or otherwise persuaded into going offshore.
2) adj. Unavailable for drinking/partying due to being on a rig.
3) v. Tricked, conned, or otherwise persuaded into going offshore.
offshoring
Offshoring is a practice where companies pay foreign workers 1/3 the pay for work (such as software development). What compaines fail to understand is that it takes the offshore workers 4 times as long to perform their work, and the resulting product is sub-par at best.
Local programmer makes $60.00 / hour.
The company decides to use offshoring to send the work to India for $20.00 / hour.
Instead of taking 8 hours to write a program locally (for a total of $480.00) they offshore the work and it takes 32 hours (for a total of $640.00) and the resulting program has text like:
"For more instruction be to clicking the yes button."
Pay more, get worse products, and take longer to get it done.
The company decides to use offshoring to send the work to India for $20.00 / hour.
Instead of taking 8 hours to write a program locally (for a total of $480.00) they offshore the work and it takes 32 hours (for a total of $640.00) and the resulting program has text like:
"For more instruction be to clicking the yes button."
Pay more, get worse products, and take longer to get it done.
offshoring by Joe Blow Programmer April 11, 2007
Offshore Drilling
Offshore Drilling by BooKaki69 November 19, 2019
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