That's what we hear a lot, and as long as there are more and more folks in the U.S. who are unwilling to work at anything until some overseas worker decides to take up loafing, then we'll continue to swell the ranks of able bodied Americans w/o jobs.
I’ll strongly take issue with you on that.
I worked for a very large, very global IT company for twenty years.
Good company by the way. Right up until last week.
The thing is, the company has been sending jobs out of America now for more than ten years. The outsourcing started to impact me about a year ago, when my main job was offshored and half of our department was suddenly laid off. Including me and my boss (who was truly exceptional, and had been with the company even longer than I had been)
I landed another job with the company at another office, and had been quite happy until a few months ago for some reason, out manager appointed a “manager” for our group, who suddenly decided I wasn’t performing up to standard.
This was quite sudden, and I was quite surprized to hear this. There were duties I was responsible for which were not in our department’s ordinary command structure, but the manager was quite, critical.
I went along with it, and hit almost all of the goals set out for me (or missed them for the ones I didn’t hit, by mere inches) yet at the end of the process the manager continued to be the same critical person.
In the meantime I started looking for another position within the company. But what I found, was that most everything I was applying for, was being outsourced.
For several months I searched. But finally I gave notice. As I said, I left last week.
I’m close to retirement and I may just travel for a bit, but I assure you the environment at our company has changed greatly.
Again I am not critical of the company at all. I am slightly critical of my latest boss, who I believe was far, far too critical.
But mostly what I am saying is, the environment changed and the jobs (good jobs by the way) are all heading overseas.
It is a very large company, and it is changing.
I believe it is representative, of what is happening in many American companies.
American workers are not the problem.
It is the people outsourcing, which are the (big) problem.
Trump is saying it is time to bring jobs back to America.
I completely agree.
100%.