Posted on 06/11/2015 6:13:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1
f you were laid off from your job, would you be willing to train your replacement if your company threatened to take away your severance pay if you didn’t do it? And how would you feel if your replacement came from India, and the only reason your company was replacing you was because the foreign worker was a lot less expensive? Sadly, this is happening all over America – especially in the information technology field. Huge corporations such as Disney and Southern California Edison are coldly firing existing tech workers and filling those jobs with much cheaper foreign replacements. They are doing this by blatantly abusing the H-1B temporary worker visa program. Workers that had been doing a solid job for decades are being replaced without any hesitation just because it will save those firms a little bit of money. There is very, very little loyalty left in corporate America today. Even if you have poured your heart and your soul into your company for years, that ultimately means very little. The moment that your usefulness is over, most firms will replace you in a heartbeat these days.
When I learned that Disney was doing this, I was absolutely outraged. Talk about a company that is going down the toilet. The following comes from the New York Times…
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Gee corruption is hidden form the public. You have to wait for it to happen to you I guess. You’ve made your point, now drop it. You think the H-1B program is just hunky dory. We get. Now go away. Shoo.
Besides salary Green Carders don't quit.
Once a worker has an H1-B, they can jump ship to any company that will sponsor them. They don't need a new H1-B. They can remain on that H1-B for up to six years.
Workers with green cards can leave to any company whenever they want.
All H-1B and green card holders undermine US workers. But you are correct the guy I trained was an H-1b visa holder but I am sure he eventually became green card holder.
One would assume that if a company hires an H-1B because they can't find an American with that skill set then they should have to demonstrate that the H-1B does meet all the requirements. I say "should" but that would make too much sense and H-1B status being a piece of government legislation then we can immediately conclude that no such requirement exist.
The quotas for H-1B is filled every year. I guess they are profitable.
In this case Disney is not the one hiring the H-1B. Disney outsourced their IT functions to a vendor, fired their own workers, and it's the vendor hiring the H-1Bs. Since low salaries are vital to meeting the cost model of their contract with Disney then the vendor doesn't mind going through the trouble.
Big name company.
What a joke. Look on line and search for H-1b visa fraud. Yeah you will find some. Compare that to the millions of H-1b visa holders that have flooded the US job market in the last few decades.
I think in 2010 and 2009 there were still some left the next year, but now they are probably taken up the first day.
Nowadays that one skill has to be willing to work for half of what you're currently making.
It was one thing to hire an H1-B for a new position, but hiring one to replace an existing worker is bad. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that.
You are against tariffs because it is government intrusion into private markets. The H-1b is direct government intrusion into the private labor market but ironically you have no opinion.
“would you be willing to train your replacement if your company threatened to take away your severance pay if you didn’t do it? “
Sure, I would make sure he got the worst possible training, would not care about it, all the while making it look like I am working my butt off to train him.
I can play the game too, and ya never know if during that training, something like a major computer crash, or a flood might happen as well.. things like that just seem to “happen” sometimes.
How about a question like “There are 36 black keys and 52 white keys on a piano keyboard. Given this, discuss the inherent racism in piano keyboard design.”?
I am very, very concerned Walker cannot hit a major league curve ball and the media will chew him up and spit him out like they did GW.
ANYBODY that is pro TPP and H1B is no candidate of mine.
Is Walker pro-H1B and pro-TPP? I missed that.
I don’t know but I meant Cruz with that sentence. Sorry.
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