Well you know there is an old story about John Henry who dug out rock with a pick ax to make way for the railroad being built to connect the east with the west in the American frontier days. John Henry was really good, but one day a steam engine came along that could do his job just as well. So there was one day a contest. Henry kept up the the machine as best he could, and, in some versions of the story, even beat the machine, but his heart failed him at the end and he died. Moral of the story: no matter how good you are at your job, new ways of doing it will always come along to make your old way of doing it obsolete. It is called progress. Thus it is with outsourcing. It is the wave of the future, it is inevitable. If you don't like it, perhaps you should get to your next meeting via covered wagon and let the rest of us use the new fangled railroad contraption. I for one like outsourcing - more work for less cost. Can't argue with that baby! :-)