Posted on 09/07/2015 11:07:16 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Edited on 09/07/2015 11:23:24 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I suspect Cruz really hasn’t heard from the Tech Workers who have been forced to early retire by H1b.
There is LOTS of $$$ being sent to GOP-e candidates in Silicon Valley to try and get them to bite on H1b.
90% is coming from Zuckerberg.
If Cruz would take the time to visit SV and talk to ex-HP employees, IMHO he would change his mind in 5 seconds.
Assuming he didn’t have to run for his limo in fear.
Taxes don’t matter, they have their soda straws stuck right into the stream; taxes are to keep the schlubs in line; the real money is in inflating the currency.
But you believe Bill Clinton, Bush and Obama..... S.M.H.
If you think Clinton, Bush and Obama are more intelligent than George Washington all the way to your rapist Billy, then I guess that is your “genius” opinion?
After all they have been sooooooooo right about EVERYTHING...., and they never lied or been wrong about ANYTHING.....(sarcasm off) LOL!
The economy is falling apart and you keep defending these failed rigid trade agreements. Unbelievable!
“These weren’t cast members. They were IT guys.”
Respectfully, everyone employed by their theme parks are cast members. They are all responsible for bring you the show. I sat at a desk in Finance for 11 years, never set foot in the park, unless I wanted to, and was still a castmember.
Thank you.
God Bless Ronald Reagan, and NAFTA (which was his idea).
About 10 years ago, I was looking for a job, and I got a call from a “headhunter” looking for someone who knew Novell networking. They had a crazy laundry list of about a dozen different Novell technologies that the applicant needed to be able to administer. Not only could I handle those products, I was actually certified Novell instructor for every one of the products (At the time, I was certified to teach 22 Novell courses.
Needless to say, I never got the job. A few years later, I learned who the prospective employer was. It turns out they place an Indian national in the job, and he messed things up so badly, he convinced management to completely switch the company from Novell to Microsoft networking.
That employer was a former client of mine, I had installed their pilot network project (upgrading them from OS2 Lan Manager), trained all of their administrators, and worked with them on installing Novell throughout the corporation. I had also done tech support for them over more than 8 years.
Looking back, it didn’t occur to me to contact the company directly, rather than working with a headhunter. Of course, I didn’t know who the perspective employer was, but I should have gone directly to every one of my former clients to see if they were hiring. That part was my fault.
When the manager I spoke with found out I had applied for the job, he was very angry, as it turned out that the guy who was placed there wasn’t very good with Microsoft products either, and they terminated the contract early, and threatened to sue the headhunter.
Mark
How so?
A former co-worker (network admin) is excellent, but since he was let go in November, he's been unemployed. Another was let go in March, and he's still unemployed too.
I keep hearing how the job market is improving. Not in IT, that's for sure.
Mark
Yes and if you read the article it tells a story over a period of time STARTING on October of 2014.
This article right now is on top left of Breitbart right now. Go look if you do not believe me and think “conspiracy theory”.
They have such a LOCK on the notion of free trade, such that anybody who even questions it is marked as fringe. I think we need to TALK about the question of ‘free trade’ as I think it’s never been free, and it’s never benefited the people of the USA. But they want us to keep buying stuff! How can we buy stuff if we don’t make any money? I know these people trot out Keynes all the time, but this is NOT KEYNESIAN!
I read that to mean that it’s better to pay back debt in inflated currency, but that’s not the subject of the thread.
The Government prints all the money they want. If they didn’t want to collect taxes they could just print all the money they needed. That might actually be helpful to people, so of course they would never do it. Taxes are for keeping people in line, keeping their nose to the grindstone, and giving Govt a way to crush anybody who gets in their way.
Hello? Keynes? You’ve been into the liquor cabinet already, right?
“They feel that since aren’t getting what they pay for now, so what difference does it make if cheaper Indian H1B’s do the work? “
There is the money statement. Most programmers suck, terribly. So, if they suck then why not pay foreigners who suck even less.
Oh My God I Just Had A Beer. I think you may be on me like a cheap suit~! :-)
The thing about those of us who adhere to the Austrian school of economics is, we study the economic world as it is, not how we wish it could be. It is true that illegal labor has displaced legal labor, just like bad money chases out good money. Legal jobs on American soil are good things for the economy, but if those H1B visas are not given, those opportunities will likely go to even cheaper workers on foreign soil. The law of unintended consequences is inviolable. To protect one segment of jobs and their wages, is create incentives to make those jobs go off-shore or performed robotically or some other more economically efficient means. To survive in the modern economy one must adapt or become extinct. The later cannot be avoided by time traveling back to a less volatile time.
Hey man, give me a few more hours, and I’ll start giving Keynes imitations. I can be anybody when I’m drunk.
You are in IT and you feel it is hard to get an IT job? Really?
The outsourced IT work has been anything but cheaper - equipment costs skyrocked as they replaced really poor buying decisions with reliable equipment. For example, at the Fort Wilderness Resort cabins, part of the daily ‘room checklist’, in addition to ensuring that there’s shampoo and conditioner in the bathroom, cleaning staff was required to reboot each router daily as otherwise they’d lock up.
All of those defective routers were replaced, as well as replacing the resort wide deployment of CAT3 cable with CAT10 or fiber. And while the old IT group would handle a block of 8 rooms for ‘technology upgrades’, the outsourced company would descend with enough people to manage an entire wing in a day.
Saving money is not what Disney has done - they’ve placed a priority on improving the end results, and are paying through the nose for it, but what’s being purchased and installed will last far longer with far less maintenance, and as it is being done by an outside company, far easier for management to accept vs the penny wise, pound foolish attitude they gave the internal department.
Ultimately, what the in house department needed was the one thing they couldn’t really do - have the flexibility to expand as needed to handle the tasks and a budget that only handled the basic tasks with additional budgets and personnel for individual projects.
And what do they do with it?
If they didn’t want to collect taxes they could just print all the money they needed. That might actually be helpful to people,
Yes, hyperinflation is helpful to many people. Can you think of which groups it would help?
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