Posted on 05/08/2020 2:01:44 PM PDT by jroehl
In the words of Lisa, a knowledge worker:
“I have degrees in math and computer science from the late 80s. Ditto my husband. He’s a database administrator. We’ve both been in IT our entire careers and are sickened to see what’s happened with all of the outsourcing. We are sick of training our Indian replacements.”
Another American wrote to us:
“I’m a 47-year-old database developer. I’ve been replaced multiple times (that I’m aware of) by OPT workers, and I’ve seen my entire IT department at a major corporation replaced by Indian H-1Bs. I do ‘have skills.’ I’m highly regarded and well-respected by my peers and boss, and I have a well-established work history. I’ve been fighting the work visa treason for years, and I never feel like anyone in Washington, D.C. cares about American workers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ustechworkers.com ...
Something to add to this mix - foreigners may be more willing to take the jobs some American workers deem as too dangerous. I believe a good percentage of US workers have said they’re not going back to their jobs due to health concerns related to working conditions.
Wonder if that’ll figure into it?
Well, first, that is completely and totally unfair to Americans and, obviously, to you.
Second, I really wondered just how much this Coronavirus situation will affect your industry and everyone’s actually. We really have yet to see what’s going to happen. I just don’t know.
It all began back in the 90’s with Carly Forina and HP.
Employees were told to train in their replacements or be fired on the spot.
Over 10K Americans lost their jobs to India.
Intel and Microsoft both tried the same thing.
Craig Barret almost succeeded until HR told him it would cause a mass exit from Intel and they would never come back.
BK really did it in 2013-15 and not only did some of the best leave, they told all their friends to NEVER work for Intel until BK left.
Intel will never again be the great company it was under Andy Grove and Paul Ortelini.
Putting our IT in the hands of foreigners may come back to bite us just as we’ve discovered from recent events that relying on the chicoms for our medical supplies and other manufactured products is not a good thing.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. If the democrats win the coming elections, they plan on installing their green new deal. This will bankrupt and shutter the coal, gas and oil industries and put millions of people out of work. They plan on re-training those millions as coders. Coding will be a min wage job. In phase II, they’ll knock off the cattle industry. No beef means the burger flippers will also be re-trained as coders. And of course with no oil, the travel industry dies. And all those newly unemployed low wage foreign hotel workers? Yup. Retrain as coders.
This is very much a blind spot for President Trump. I don’t know whether he’s getting bad advice or is simply OK with giving non-citizens PREFERENCE over American citizens when it comes to tech workers for some reason.
Just wait until they replace all the lawyers and doctors with Indians. I wonder if that will get every bodies attention.
“Just wait until they replace all the lawyers and doctors with Indians.”
Notice how most of the doctors interviewed on big media tv are Indians?
The population replacement rolls on.
I am a real bargain at this point. I will do any and all Alteryx, Tableau on any database and or cloud platforms for minimum wage, at this point. I am probably the best in the world at this stuff with 10 years more experience than any non-US citizens. I have automated major court systems. I have worked for Bank of America, The Pentagon, 3M and The World Bank. I have budgeted the health care systems for several European countries. It is all worth a warm bucket of spit, in the last 2 years.
So true, at minimum since the 90s. For those in IT that actually have to go to an office (a lot of us have been working at home for years), it looks like you have arrived in a foreign country!
Almost al the IT recruiting companies are Indian owned now. The talent is here, but we are white and contrary to popular belief, the H1Bs do NOT make less money than the Americans they are replacing.
It has been my experience that companies get kick backs for importing the workforce in IT.
The policy story from the link:
“If the most conservative member of Congress can partner with the director of Progressives for Immigration Reform, then there is a real chance our nation can undertake true meaningful immigration reform. [...] Congressman Gosar has filed H.R.3564 , the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act of 2019. It would eliminate the OPT program that is used to hire foreigners over U.S. citizens and pay them less.”
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