Sad strategy for podiatry colleges.by Anonymous (no login)Podiatry students are being told that there are lots of opportunities for podiatrists in smaller cities that are underserviced by podiatrists and orthopedic surgeons. While this sounds like a valid statement many smaller cities and larger towns are (were) dependent on 2-5 large corporate employers. Rochester, NY is one example, when the big employers, eg Kodak, Xerox etc, started shutting down factories and laying off 1,000s of employees a major recession hit the city. Today, there are over 5,000 vacant houses. Try to go there and set up a podiatry clinic and guess what? It'll probably fail. What's happening across the USA? The following info is from CNN. "Here is a list of companies we've confirmed are "Exporting America." These are U.S. companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers. 3Com 3M A Aalfs Manufacturing Accenture Adaptec ADC Adobe Systems Advanced Energy Industries Aetna Affiliated Computer Services AFS Technologies A.G. Edwards Agere Systems Agilent Technologies AIG Alamo Rent A Car Albertson's Alcoa Fujikura Allen Systems Group Alliance Semiconductor Allstate Alpha Thought Global Amazon.com AMD American Express American Household American Management Systems American Standard AMETEK Amphenol Corporation Analog Devices ANDA Networks Andrew Corporation Anheuser-Busch AOL A.O. Smith Apple Applied Materials Art Leather Manufacturing ArvinMeritor A.T. Cross Company AT&T AT&T Wireless A.T. Kearney Automatic Data Processing Avanade Avanex Avaya Avery Dennison B Bank of America Bank of New York Bank One Bassett Furniture BearingPoint Bear Stearns Bechtel Becton Dickinson BellSouth Bentley Systems Berdon LLP Best Buy BISSELL Black & Decker Bose Corporation BMC Software Boeing Braden Manufacturing Bristol-Myers Squibb Brocade Bumble Bee Burle Industries Burlington House Home Fashions C Cadence Design Systems Candle Corporation Capital One Carrier Carter's Caterpillar Celestica Cendant Cerner Corporation Charles Schwab ChevronTexaco CIBER Ciena Cigna Circuit City Cisco Systems Citigroup Clorox CNA Coca-Cola Cognizant Technology Solutions Collins & Aikman Columbia House Comcast Holdings Computer Associates Computer Sciences Corporation CompuServe Continental Airlines Convergys Cooper Crouse-Hinds Cooper Tire & Rubber Cooper Tools Corning Countrywide Financial COVAD Communications Cross Creek Apparel Crown Holdings CSX Cummins Cypress Semiconductor D Dana Corporation Daniel Woodhead Daws Manufacturing Delco Remy Dell Computer Delphi Delta Air Lines Delta Apparel Direct TV Discover Document Sciences Corporation Donaldson Company Dow Chemical Dresser Dun & Bradstreet DuPont E Earthlink Eastman Kodak Eaton Corporation Electroglas Electronic Data Systems Electronics for Imaging Eli Lilly Elmer's Products E-Loan EMC Emerson Electric En Pointe Technologies Equifax Ernst & Young Ethan Allen Evolving Systems Expedia Extrasport ExxonMobil F Fair Isaac FCI USA Fedders Corporation Federal Mogul Federated Department Stores Fellowes Fender Musical Instruments Fidelity Investments Financial Techologies International First American Title Insurance First Data First Index Flowserve Fluor FMC Corporation Ford Motor Foster Wheeler Franklin Mint Franklin Templeton Freeborders Frito Lay Fruit of the Loom G Gateway GE Capital General Electric General Motors Gerber Childrenswear GlobespanVirata Goldman Sachs Goodrich Goodyear Tire & Rubber Greenpoint Mortgage Guardian Life Insurance Guilford Mills H Halliburton Haggar Hamilton Beach/Procter-Silex The Hartford Financial Services Group Hasbro Manufacturing Services HealthAxis Helen of Troy Hershey Hewitt Associates Hewlett-Packard The Holmes Group Home Depot Honeywell HSN Hubbell Inc. Humana Hunter Sadler HyperTech Solutions I IBM iGate Corporation Illinois Tool Works IMI Cornelius IndyMac Bancorp Infogain Ingersoll-Rand Innodata Isogen Innova Solutions Intel InterMetro Industries International Paper Intuit Invacare ITT Educational Services ITT Industries J Jabil Circuit Jacobs Engineering Jacuzzi JDS Uniphase Jockey International John Deere Johnson Controls Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase J.R. Simplot Juniper Networks K KANA Software Kaiser Permanente Keane Kellogg Kellwood KEMET KEMET Electronics KeyCorp Kimberly-Clark KLA-Tencor Kraft Foods Kulicke and Soffa Industries Kwikset L Lands' End Lawson Software Lear Corporation Lehman Brothers Levi Strauss Lexmark International Lifescan Lillian Vernon Linksys Lionbridge Technologies Lionel LiveBridge Lockheed Martin Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Lowe's Lucent M The Manitowoc Company Marathon Oil Maritz Marshall Fields Mattel Master Lock Maytag McDATA Corporation McKinsey & Company MeadWestvaco Medtronic Mellon Bank Merrill Corporation Merrill Lynch Metasolv MetLife Microsoft Midcom Inc. Moen Monsanto Morgan Stanley Motor Coach Industries International Motorola N Nabco Nabisco NACCO Industries National City Corporation National Life National Semiconductor NCR Corporation neoIT NETGEAR Network Associates Newell Rubbermaid New York Life Insurance Northrop Grumman Northwest Airlines Nu-kote International O Office Depot Ohio Art ON Semiconductor Orbitz Oracle OshKosh B'Gosh Otis Elevator Outsource Partners International Owens Corning Oxford Automotive Oxford Industries P palmOne Paramount Apparel Parker-Hannifin Parsons E&C Pearson Digital Learning PeopleSoft PepsiCo Pericom Semiconductor PerkinElmer Perot Systems Pfizer Pitney Bowes Planar Systems Plexus Portal Software Power One Pratt & Whitney Primus Telecom Procter & Gamble ProQuest Providian Financial Prudential Insurance Q Quark Qwest Communications R Rainbow Technologies Radio Shack Rawlings Sporting Goods Raytheon Aircraft RCG Information Technology Regence Group Rockwell Automations Rogers Rohm & Haas RR Donnelley & Sons Russell Corporation S Sabre Safeway SAIC Sallie Mae Samsonite Sanmina-SCI Sapient Sara Lee Saturn Electronics & Engineering SBC Communications Schumacher Electric SEI Investments Seton Company Siebel Systems Sikorsky Silicon Graphics SITEL Skyworks Solutions SMC Networks Sola Optical USA Solectron Sovereign Bancorp Sprint Sprint PCS Square D Stanley Furniture Stanley Works Starkist Seafood State Farm Insurance State Street StorageTek StrategicPoint Investment Advisors Sun Microsystems Sunrise Medical SunTrust Banks Supra Telecom SurePrep The Sutherland Group Sykes Enterprises Symbol Technologies Synygy T Target Tecumseh Telcordia Teleflex TeleTech Telex Communications Tellabs Tenneco Automotive Teradyne Texas Instruments Textron Thomas & Betts Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Time Warner The Timken Company The Toro Company Tower Automotive Toys "R" Us Trans Union Travelocity Trinity Industries Triquint Semiconductor TriVision Partners Tropical Sportswear TRW Automotive Tumbleweed Communications Tyco Electronics Tyco International U Union Pacific Railroad Unisys United Airlines UnitedHealth Group Inc. United Online United Technologies USAA V Valence Technology VA Software Veritas Verizon VF Corporation Vishay VITAL Sourcing W Wachovia Bank Warnaco Washington Group International Washington Mutual WellChoice Werner Co. West Corporation Weyerhaeuser Whirlpool White Rodgers Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company Wolverine World Wide WorldCom Wyeth X Xerox Xpitax Y Yahoo! York International Z Zenith" So sad, but the truth. So anyone planning on setting up in a smaller city or larger town that depends on 2-5 large employers better beware. I bet that if that town is thriving today, in 5-10 years it won't be because the manufacturers/service providers will off shore the work. from IP address 142.3.102.202 Goto Forum Home |
| Response Title | Author and Date |
| Have you heard of Capitalism? | Ron on Mar 29, 1:12 PM |
| Re: Sad strategy for podiatry colleges. | Anonymous on May 20, 7:19 PM |
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