For Sale “America”

My job is going to end soon because the position that I hold is being outsourced to a company named Infosys and located in India.    They sent several of their employees to the company where I work, and people in my office had to train them to do our jobs. I can’t blame them, they have heard about the American dream and they want to buy a piece of it for  themselves. 

While training them, I quickly learned that they do not get the “slang” part of our language. That will sure cause some barriers.  They wanted me to help them understand what a “scam” was.   I said it’s when someone tries to cheat you out of something, it’s like when someone profits from your losses.  But, it’s not legal in America to do that, or at one time it wasn’t. 

While learning about the company that they work for in India, we discovered that they work in a huge business complex, almost like a city itself, where there are roughly 4000 employees. They refer to it as the campus. It houses eight restaurants, two Olympic size swimming pools, a library, sauna, and a golf course.  The employees are each given a bicycle to get around on the campus because it is so huge. They maintain employees there around the clock because the companies that they outsource are all over the world and they have to be available for the phone calls from the various time zones. Why would the facility need to be so fabulous? Is it really that hard for them to find employees over there? 

All we have to offer at our facility is a break room and the free air that we breathe here in America.  The liberty that we have all been able to enjoy, and that has come at such a high cost.  America has enjoyed so many benefits that it appears that we have really undervalued it.  We fail to appreciate having an economy that even with inflation, has still managed to provide us with a good life. Is the fact that we take it so for granted the reason we are able to just give it away so easily?