Outsourced

The offshoring of U.S. jobs remains a hot topic in the newsworthiness... and now it's a hot topic in the movies, too. (At least four projects called Outsourced have been produced in the lowest three old age alone!)


Everyman Josh Hamilton carries this premise handily: His game of computer Solitaire is interrupted by his boss, who's telling him the customer service call center he manages is being shipped overseas, to India. If Todd (Hamilton) wants to keep his job, he'll fly over there and train the new folks, getting their time-per-call numbers racket down to something more profitable.


What follows is muckle of the expected culture shock as Todd deals with stomach ailments, broken infrastructure, nomenclature barriers, and other