Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements

Computerworld ^ | Feb 4, 2015 12:06 PM PT | Patrick Thibodeau

[central_va]

The H-1b program has been around for a long time, decades. Somebody kill it, please.

[VerySadAmerican]

This guy can show all the stats he wants to his neighbors and they won’t do anything as long as they have jobs.

[central_va]

I think these rich companies should tell their shareholders that they’re going to be a little more patriotic and live with a lesser profit (lower share price), pay Americans to do the jobs, because in the end it’s better for every American.

< sarc > You must be some kind of Communist < /sarc >

[deadrock]

Where is the ‘bring back jobs,’ broken record?

[Pontiac]

Ask the SCE workers who they voted for. 90% are Dumbocrats.

Elect Jeb and we will have more of this.

It’s not just Democrats

[VerySadAmerican]

My wife was in a grocery store the other day and this woman had the middle of the isle blocked with her cart. An elderly gentleman said in a very nice way “Ma’am, if you’d move your cart just a few inches over the rest of us could get by.”

She say “No” and kept looking at the items on the shelf. The man said “I can’t believe this.” and squeezed his cart past. My wife was going around her and the woman said, in a foreign accent “I will not be pushed around.”

My wife said “Now I get it. She’s from another country.”

[cicero2k]

The company I work for - a Fortune 500 company - is moving the Accounts Payable dept to India. My dept (tax) is all dreading having to deal with this. But the thing is, our AP people were way low on the payscale. I guess working your butt off for 30k a year for 15 years just isn’t good enough.

Sad. These AP persons can't realistically move to the sub-continent.

Management probably sees competitors doing the same, and want to grow earnings.

As an industry matures, any low skill task will be sent offshore.

As Americans, we are expected to innovate, milk it as long as possible, then repeat.

If it gets stale, it gets stolen.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Guest workers...doing the job (voting for RAT crooks) that Americans won’t do.

[johniegrad]

Bet your post gets pulled.

[BwanaNdege]

When they learn that ‘brain drain’ has been complete for years, and these people have NO problem solving skills and they give away degrees with cereal box tops,

I am a natural born American, Caucasian/White/Redneck/Native American. I have worked with Indian IT people in India and the US. My previous employer had a project with a US company founded by an naturalized American citizen of Indian descent.

The project was started because our in-house IT staff had spent $2.7 million over the previous 2 years, using a US software company. We still had no update for that software. Finally, corporate HQ in New York terminated our entire department.

Afterward, we contacted the owner Indian led US company, who was quite familiar with our software, to quote cost and time to complete the update we had needed.

He first said, "$100K and 6 months", then after a minute's thought said, "No, to be safe, $200K & 12 months."

I responded, "So $250K and 12 months, tops?"

"Absolutely!"

You say say that anyone can give a low-ball quote. However, before choosing this company I contacted their previous client references. These included two regional power companies, the US Navy Bureau of Ships and the Social Security Administration. All had nothing but the highest praise for the company. On time, on budget, quality work.

During another time & job I spent 6 weeks living with a family in India during a village water project. Their son was studying for his high school final exam and I listened to him study and talked with him about the exam. For many of the topics I not only did not know the answers, I did not even understand the questions.

While I am not "highly educated", I did attend Ga Tech and also earned a Regular commission in the USMC. My SAT was 1416 on the old scale (1965).

I, for one, do not believe that all Indians "have NO problem solving skills and they give away degrees with cereal box tops".

Textile manufacturing moved from New England to the South because of a lower cost of labor. Later it moved over seas for the same reason. German & Swiss textile machinery manufacturers moved to South Carolina for the same reason. Soon BMW & Mercedes follow to the South.

Boeing is moving some aircraft production to Charleston. Long ago, Gulfstream moved to Savannah from Bethpage, N.Y.

Competent labor can compete anywhere in a free market. Overpriced entitlement labor cannot.

[VerySadAmerican]

I think his post was an example of what’s being posted on another site. Bill o rights is not the person living in a shed.

[Bill_o'Rights]

So you know, those aren’t my living arrangements, that’s a comment from Computerworld feedback as stated above.

[Iron Munro]

Think they will still keep voting democrat?

[fella]

Wonder if any of these IT workers vote straight RAT ticket.

[EveningStar]

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[Aria]

It might be more understandable if they didn’t spend so lavishly in other areas.

There ought to be some sort of balance between making every last damn nickel you can and employing your fellow Americans. Maybe tax incentives need to be promoted for not shipping your jobs abroad...and I tend to really like these sort of bribes.

[CodeJockey]

yea... and the American people would vote for Obama if he could run again. There are more in the the wagon, than pushing now.

If Mooch would throw her name in the hat now, she would be a shoe in. The only ones who would not vote for her would be old white dudes.

[KoRn]

Any “Patriotism” doesn’t show up on the corporate balance sheet, or the bottom line. That’s all that matters for companies anymore. Even though they may be an “American” company, they aren’t really an “AMERICAN” company.

This could be ‘remedied’ in a day by the Congress, but your average American worker doesn’t write a big enough check to be able to keep their job, so the large companies basically pay them(LARGE contributions) to import all of their IT workers for 25 cents on the dollar. All of the politicians that supposedly “help the middle class” sells us out at every turn.

It has been a two party sell out from the start. The Chamber of Commerce writes the big checks, which many of the politicians love, and at the same time it creates people dependent on government for EBT and other giveaways.(democrat voters)

I’m not sure our nation can survive this, but when the reckoning comes from this, the politicians that took the bribes and the people that got rich at the companies from it will all be retired and sitting on a beach. Our children will be dealing with the aftermath....