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%.
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.
What happened last week is important; changing jobs is a heck of a problem. I know as I got laid off a few years back (the entire workforce was replaced by foreigners) and my son-in-law was laid off when the IT work he was doing got xfered to someone in India. Right now both me and my son-in-law are fine and making more money than ever because we made sure our skills were marketable elsewhere. These days I sit at home and work on line and my son-in-law is a hot-shot experienced expert with a company that outsources IT work. Both of us are happy even while our taxes to the U.S. federal government soar.
Back to the topic; somehow you and I wandered off on a completely different subject. None of this layoff stuff changes the fact that working in the U.S. depends on someone overseas losing a job. Your quitting did not suddenly make this true because you were saying this was true before you had to quit. Sure, lots of folks say we need tax hikes to put folks back to work but imho they're very sadly mistaken.