Posted on 03/02/2017 7:16:10 AM PST by TigerClaws
Pull their damn federal funding !
So these former employees avg $140,000 as mid to low level workers
There’s a place for H1B, I guess.
But not in its current form.
It is not different than using illegals to pay less.
And we ALL KNOW that is the reason they are hired.
The “no Americans to fill the jobs” bull#### is just that.
THEY FIRED people who knew how to do the job!!!
I know the uber capitalists here will disagree. I couldn’t give a ####.
$114,000 rather
Let’s see how the (rather complex) system holds up under the control of the new IT laborers after a year or so.
Any questions of what political party loves to hire foreign workers?
This is probably an accurate statement. They likely brought the workers over to train them (train the trainer), and they'll go back and train the team in India. The jobs will be permanently outsourced, with ZERO economic benefit to the U.S. -- no taxes, no cash flow, and no economic benefit.
Hey! At least the Dems (Lofgren, Pelosi, Feinstein) are creating jobs.
In INDIA!!!!!
It costs more to live in San Francisco than just about anywhere else in the U.S. I doubt that $114k provides for a lavish lifestyle.
Public university lays off 79 IT workers after they train H-1B replacements
The American and the 8 H-1B visa holders physically working at the University trained Indian workers that will work in India.
Completely Outsourced.
This will help recruit students to major in CompSci.
$140K is chump change there.
140k is not much in SF.
140k after federal and state taxes amounts to about 90k take home or about 7500 per month.
Avg monthly cost of a one bedroom apartment in SF is 3500.
Avg monthly combined utility bill in SF is 170
Avg internet/phone bill is 70
Avg public trans monthly pass is 70
Avg monthly groceries and restaurants are 450
Avg fitness club is 75
Subtotal about 4335
Add a car, insurance, registration, parking
Add an additional bedroom
Add a preschool child
Total: less than zero
In sum, a single IT worker can possibly save a couple of thousand per month.
An IT worker who is a single parent of a preschooler has no chance at all to make it there. Add a spouse who works part-time and maybe they will just get by but they will struggle.
Add facts such as crime and homelessness are rampant in SF, and it becomes clear that the 140k per year lifestyle of an IT worker is a miserable proposition.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-rent-cost-drop-rental-6690357.php
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/San-Francisco
The leftist Ars Technica site and its leftist snowflake commentators are up in arms.
Too bad leftists - you’re gonna have to go looking to the hated Trump to solve your gored ox.
I lived there 20 years and moved away last summer, $140,000 is good money. My wifey and I together made that much and lived quite well, it is hardly chump change.
Sometimes, IT depts get overloaded with “non-technical” people. No work gets done and you have to do something.
“$114,000 rather”
No wonder they are upset. Big salary and a pension they think they will get.
So you owned real estate that you bought 20 years ago? So if you had to pay today’s prices for that same house/condo/whatever and made the same money now as then, how well off would you be? Educate me. What we are talking about is affordability now, not 20 years ago.
One major Freeper short coming is not adjusting for inflation.....Many seem to think a minimum wage of $10.00/hr is a lot of money LOL!
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