{"id":3082,"date":"2009-08-01T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2009-08-01T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:28:16","slug":"outsourced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Outsourced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LImhTTFu4b8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LImhTTFu4b8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I watched <a type=\"amzn\">Outsourced<\/a> (2006) last night.  It was actually pretty good.  Not as good as <a type=\"amnz\">Slumdog Millionaire<\/a> (2008), but it was quite entertaining.  [I guess you can&#8217;t really compare because the two movies belong in different genres.  They&#8217;re both set in India, though.  LOL.]<\/p>\n<p>Brian had no interest in watching it at all, so I ended up watching it by myself. I think I found it interesting because I could relate, having worked in call centers for 15 years.  It&#8217;s one of those funny movies that&#8217;s not stupid-funny or hilarious-funny.  It actually makes you think.  LOL.  Maybe it&#8217;s just a <em>funny-to-me<\/em> kind of film.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, I appreciated learning a bit about the culture of India and how important it is to consider cultural differences when communicating and building relationships. I also liked its take on globalization and outsourcing.  <a type=\"amzn\">Outsourced<\/a> is pretty good.  Definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/17xPHi7FPnQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/17xPHi7FPnQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Outsourced (2006) last night. It was actually pretty good. Not as good as Slumdog Millionaire (2008), but it was quite entertaining. [I guess you can&#8217;t really compare because the two movies belong in different genres. They&#8217;re both set in India, though. LOL.] Brian had no interest in watching it at all, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[2480,622,623,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}