The creaks of economic globalization were loud yesterday:

"IBM fires 1315 Employees and an unknown number of contractors, across the country today in IBM Global Services ITD." source: Alliance IBM

now, a "spanish professor" told me during a hike this weekend that his job couldn't be outsourced. I thought, "this guy hasn't used skype" or looked at the foreign language offerings on the web...

And, this moring, I wondered what he'd think about the posts in IBM Alliance's job cuts comments.

Specifically, I saw a repeated reference to something called "competency centers."

perhaps the public schools will ultimately revolve around "competency centers" that regulate the entire educational process? and who knows what else?

If you read the "postings on job cuts," I'd love to hear your reaction about it here...

Where's our culture headed?