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New Television Show "Outsourced" Is Screamingly Funny, but the Topic Makes Me Sad

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

There's a new television show called "Outsourced".

The plot involves a young man who has just completed a management course with a novelties company so that he can manage a phone room  full of telemarketers.

But then he discovers that all the employees here in the United States have been "rightsized".

To zero.

So he gets to go to India, where he manages a group of funny, charming Indian telemarketers in their efforts to sell fake poo and rubber vomit.

And hilarity ensues.

The peculiar thing is that they wasted money on writers, instead of spending it wisely on stars and special effects and explosions (the entire show was explosion-challenged; nothing went "ka-boom"!), so that the show flowed easily from start to finish, with clever scene changes, funny dialogue, and situations that we all remember from Salt-and-Pepper Cop shows, where some of the humor comes from the intersection of different cultures and attitudes.

And several movie and television stars will come out of the cast; the casting director found actors who were saturated with charisma, charm, and pathos.

You know that the writers are good when you're rooting for the sweet telemarketer who was hired by the assistant manager just so she could be fired to scare the other employees, and I nearly stood up in my family room and gave her a standing ovation when she upsold fake poo or rubber vomit to her telephone customer!

Here's the problem for me: I like folks in India. I can't help liking the Indian Actors who populate this series. And I would give it an Emmy, or an Oscar, or whatever it is, because it makes me laugh non-stop throughout the show.

But I can't forget the scene when our hero walked into the big office at the beginning of the show.

Into a huge, empty telephone room, full of empty desks and empty chairs.

Where there had been jobs for U.S. workers.

Until those jobs were "Outsourced".

And the U.S. employees of the company were "rightsized".

Because when I talk to somebody who has to file a bankruptcy in Arizona because their job or their entire industry has been shipped to India or China, I'm not laughing.

Full post as published by Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog on September 25, 2010 (boomark / email).