I can attest to this. And at my age, I am competing with much younger guys for even the jobs doing what I was doing 10 years ago. The wages are seriously down as well.
If you read this article from SFGate.com (the web page of the San Francisco Chronicle):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/05/BUHI1F8C8F.DTL
Note that my contention that American businesses are massively offshoring operations for tax avoidance reasons is 100% true. This article supports my contention that we really DO need massive income tax reform, if only to entice American businesses to keep their operations as much as possible in the USA.
It seems to me one way to serve notice on these out sourcing companies is for laid off engineers to immediately collaborate and come up with innovative services and products that compete with the companies that laid them off. Screw non competitive agreements and intellectual property clauses...if those companies can’t use the powerhouse talents and experienced techs that have been laid off then why be loyal? One has to eat! (and tie these companies up for years in court as they try to justify to an increasingly angry populace as to why their former employees should be allowed to starve.)
Get Politically active (Tea Party).
Both parties (R and D) have been pushing raising the 401B Visas.
These are the “legal” migrant tech workers - there are hordes of them now (I personally know many companies that have 1 or 2 USA citizens and then 20 or so 401B Visa workers).
Can you believe with unemployment what it is that we are still “importing” workers? And paying taxes to administer the program!!!!
Get thee to your local tea party before it’s too late and YOUR job is outsourced (inside or outside the country)
Most techies I know voted and love Obama, even now.
So what are you going to do?
They are hiring...in Mumbai.
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Not in Silicon Valley. Most Software Engineers seem to be getting mulitple offers.
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