Posted on 11/11/2009 12:38:12 PM PST by AuntB
Sudhir Kapoor, 25, got the call from his employer late last year. It was bad news: The economic downturn meant the technology company had to let him go.
Laxmi Aiyar, who is returning to India after she was laid off by her company, says, "It is Indian talents who made America rich and prosperous. Now, they are throwing us out like a can of Pepsi."
Since nearly 40 percent of all H-1B visa holders are from India , the mounting layoffs are hitting Indian professionals particularly hard.
....Lives have been disrupted, and some said they were under tremendous stress to pay back mortgage loans for buying houses and cars. Many had children born on U.S. soil and wonder how their children will adjust to Indian schools and a different way of life.
H-1s have been reluctant to publicize their plight, for two reasons: They fear that most Americans are unsympathetic to their predicament, and many do not want their family and friends in India to know that their American dream didn't quite work out.
If someone has worked abroad for more than seven years, they are often found unfit to work in "resurgent India ." And managers have to tread carefully between paying them more than "locals."
"What America 's basically saying is, 'We've educated you, we've trained you, we've taught you all about our markets,'" says Vivek Wadhwa, a successful Indian-born tech entrepreneur turned Duke University professor. "'Now you have to get the hell out of here. "
"Our generation has benefited because America has welcomed us and we have learned so much here," said Himanshu Khare, a software professional in Boston on a H1B visa, but thinking of going back to India.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
There, fixed it.
Cry me a river.
This is a bogus claim. They do not publicize their "plight" because white collar workers typically accept their situation no matter what. They do not see it as a "plight." They do not unionize but take the good times with the bad. I'll bet that most quotes in this article were made up by the journalist who then proceeded to put these words in the mouths of her subjects.
I have heard that people who go back to India from the US are in high demand since their work quality is better than the local work quality (having been exposed to the US). They command salaries comparable to what they get in the US. So that part about them being unemployable in "resurgent India" is a lie.
I was forwarded an email a couple of years back about an effort by some Communists in India to unionize computer engineers. The attempt failed with engineers deriding the effort.
For every one tech job created in the past dozen years, foreign visa workers have taken two to 2.5 jobs. American citizens are being slaughtered on the installment plan, inch-by-inch genocide.
Not a single one of these foreign workers were ever needed. They were brought in to destroy the middle class, and it is working.
Go back to DU - DU dummy.
Ping for later
Baloney, Salami, Pastrimi, Curry......In Information Technology, I’ve had to Tech. train the Indians and I could have just as stood behind an American and tech them what they needed to know to do the Job.
There were/are some very valuable extra intelligent Indians in Computers via H1-B, but they would be the small Minority.
Somehow, if you talk funny, Americans think your IQ is way up there......unless you’re Sarah Palin.
He forgot "kept American salaries low and took jobs from American technical workers". What more do these guys want?
It looks like the 0bama Depression has at least one silver lining.
“American students just aren’t stepping up to the plate.”
I see two major reasons for that:
1) Being a “nerd” hasn’t been “cool” since the early 60s.
2) Many younger folk have heard that the technology fields are vulnerable to outsourcing and (you guessed it) the H1-B program. Plus, as a result of those two things, salaries are anemic for the effort expended.
What goes around, comes around. TANSTAAFL.
Right here should have been where you said, "Thank you." Take that knowledge and improve your own country.
“It is Indian talents who made America rich and prosperous. Now, they are throwing us out like a can of Pepsi.”
You know, there’s no blame to anyone for trying to better their lives by hard work. The young lady is presumptuous and arrogant, but it doesn’t matter. As you say, don’t let the door hit...
What does matter are the corporation heads, immigration lawyers and members of Congress who seek to increase corporate profit at the expense of American workers, while continually crying “worker shortage,” and producing falsified data that there is one.
My husband’s salary has been stagnant for ten years because of H1-Bs.
For myself, I went into nursing to help the family finances just in time to hit the recession. I keep tabs with horrified fascination on the Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act, introduced by Rep. Wexler of Florida, to lift the retrogression on nursing visas and increase the EB-3s. Dear Mr. Wexler, there is no nursing shortage. American nurses especially new grads cannot find jobs.
Fortunuately the bill seems stalled in committee but when/if the monster health care bill is passed and hospitals and nursing homes are mandated to cut costs...Fillipina, Chinese, Indian, Haitian, Nigerian nurses happy to be here and work for peanuts.
So what are Americans? Yesterday’s trash?
We should let you stay because you want to be Coke can instead?
You have plenty of skills. Go home to India and make your country rich.
Don’t think we aren’t grateful for your contributions, we are and thank you very much. But, at the end of the day the ledger sheet just doesn’t make your continued employment possible.
Also, your stay was contingent upon your employment and sadly, that’s life.
Geeze, I would think you would want to go home to be with family and friends.
Again, thank you for all you’ve done and We’ll leave the light on.
but honey,we set the table for your abundance and success.....we made it possible to have an America.....
good time to say thanks to our veterans once again...
Like when Rajee and Patel taught the pilgrims how to plant corn and smoke tobacco? No, wait, those were the other Indians.
If she has so many irreplacable skills that have been such a benefit to this country, skills that no American has, why doesn’t she make use of them in India to benefit her own people? And excuse me, but it was American prosperity and advantages that brought her here in the first place. She probably was educated here under some scholarship that American taxpayers funded. She probably got her job here through affirmative action diversity quotas. She probably blocked an American who applied for the job that she got.
Tough cookies, lady.
Oh, and EB-3s unlike H1-Bs are permanent residents.
H1B is a freaking scam, it always has been. H1B workers are to professionals what illegal aliens are for non-professionals, nothing more.
Anyone telling you otherwise is lying out their ass.
Regardless of the reason, what he says is indeed the case.
Multinationals such as MS deliberately cast a wide
net - IQ and ability trump nationality, and the Asians
are just plain more willing/able to defer gratification
and go for the postgrad degree.
by the time Obama is done bringing CHANGE to our job market these folks will be extremely grateful to be back in India
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