Very few of the IT workers whose jobs or contracts were off-shored in the great work migration landed on their feet. Apparently Steve Relles did, according to Holly McKenna’s account for Reuters. Doing business as the Delmar Dog Butler, Relles says he can scoop the dog poop in four or five yards in an hour if they’re close together. After losing his computer programming job three years ago, the 42-year-old father of two told Reuters he has more than 100 clients who pay US$10 each to have their yards cleaned weekly. Using a converted ice scraper duct-taped to a ski pole, Relles is apparently grossing about US$50,000 per year without time off.
As a reflection of the tech sector of the economy this is so wrong in so many ways, I don’t know where to start….
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