Posted on 04/28/2015 8:10:09 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn
I think we need to assume that if the corps can do something, they will. The game plan should be to spank them for poor personnel choices, find their weaknesses and exploit their failures. You can bet too that todays H1-Bs and other visas will be tomorrows robots.
The thing to do is to shift to making the lives of small businesses much easier, we aren’t going to last long with an industry that is big/dumb/greedy when innovation is what is called for.
“So basically this is Ted Kennedy’s fault.”
I think Teddy Bare was the genesis of the problem. However, there have been plenty of enablers and fellow travelers along the way, not all of whom have been Dims.
“Nothing new and Congress writes the laws, not POTUS.”
Congress writes them and the president either enforces them or flouts them. Also, Congress is continually tinkering with the numbers and the president can sign off on those changes or veto them. So to absolve the president for any responsibility in this is wrong headed.
Congress passes law and the executive brand writes regulations that supposedly are based on them but not always.
They are “required” as in “if they don’t they get no unemployment and no severance.”
The employer does not fire them immediately. If they refuse to perform the assigned task of training the replacement, they can be fired with cause. Therefore no unemployment and obvious no severance.
Exactly.
This same thing happened to me several years ago. The company I worked for outsourced all of the infrastructure team (system, storage, network and database admins) to Tata Consultancy. I was told in late 2007 that my job would be done in Q3 of 2008. I could either train my replacement or give up my severance. I decided I had a third option: Find a different job. I set my goal to be the first one out and, with the exception of a newly hired DBA who returned to his previous job, I succeeded.
What was really fun for me was getting to bill my former employer about double what they had been paying me to help out the 3 H1B people that were trying (and failing) to do the job I used to do alone. That didn't last long once they got the bill for my work. Lol
In the end, I now work for a much better company, making more than double what I did when I got outsourced.
In 1998 Congress explicitly made it legal for employers to replace Americans with H-1B workers UNLESS:
1. The H-1B is paid less than $60,000; AND
2. The H-1B does not have a graduate degree; AND
3. The employer has more than 15% of its workers who are H-1Bs paid less than $60,000 and without graduate degrees; AND
4. The replacement takes place within 90 day of making the visa petition.
You may have read that all the H-1B visas starting Oct 1st were used up the first week in April so these restrictions, as designed, protect no one.
Last time I looked at the map, India is part of Asia. So is Turkey, Siberia & Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
And I can agree with you about engineers from Asia in general, because I have worked with several. Do not have first hand knowledge of computer programmers. The oriental engineers from China were also good in theoretical modeling but not so good in manufacturing practices.
I was the first engineer from India hired by my company. After they saw what I could do, they went on a hiring binge of Indian engineers. Any Indian who walked in looking for a job was hired. Most adhered to the stereotype about theory and practice. My advantage was my older brother ran a auto parts manufacturing business, so I had first hand knowledge of every metal working machinery. At my job in Chicago, I initiated computerized manufacturing, called NC machining in those days. I was manager of CAD/CAM. We developed expert software for flame cutting machines (involves intricate nesting of parts to reduce waste), lathes, boring machines, drills, and mills used for machining cams.
You my fRiend as the exception.
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