Posted on 06/11/2015 6:13:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1
f you were laid off from your job, would you be willing to train your replacement if your company threatened to take away your severance pay if you didn’t do it? And how would you feel if your replacement came from India, and the only reason your company was replacing you was because the foreign worker was a lot less expensive? Sadly, this is happening all over America – especially in the information technology field. Huge corporations such as Disney and Southern California Edison are coldly firing existing tech workers and filling those jobs with much cheaper foreign replacements. They are doing this by blatantly abusing the H-1B temporary worker visa program. Workers that had been doing a solid job for decades are being replaced without any hesitation just because it will save those firms a little bit of money. There is very, very little loyalty left in corporate America today. Even if you have poured your heart and your soul into your company for years, that ultimately means very little. The moment that your usefulness is over, most firms will replace you in a heartbeat these days.
When I learned that Disney was doing this, I was absolutely outraged. Talk about a company that is going down the toilet. The following comes from the New York Times…
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UPPER management wants them, they look only at the bottom line. Those who have to work with them know the issues. It's a matter of convincing the higher ups about the training, retention, and other issues. Also the holidays run on different schedules and I think one I worked with took a 2-week vacation for marriage.
Disney wised up to this scheme. Your replacement has to pass a proficiency test before you get your severance pay.
One should always have an updated resume and membership in various professional organizations, and maintain a solid network of colleagues and friends. And have one more skill, the competition does not have.
He's not, you are assuming he's on our side, he's on the side of the caliphate.
That's why EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are NO counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
I've seen and remarked on this as well. It's how the scam is done.
Only a few people are naive enough to believe that H1-B actually means hiring foreigners to fill slots that can't be filled because there are no qualified Americans available. (It's really about pricing the American worker out of the marketplace right here in his own country.)
Unfortunately, all of those naive persons are either in the House or the Senate. One of them has a name that rhymes with "Fred Bruise". (I'll vote for him anyway, but he's dead wrong on this issue.)
Gosh. He didn't pass? Lemme spend another six months at full pay training him more thoroughly!
That doesn't always work. See post #10.
...and conveniently forget the critical undocumented stuff that keeps the system running.
I seem to be in the minority, but yes I would train my replacement and do it properly. No one owes me a job for life, and if it is in the company’s interest to replace me then so be it, I’ll find another better opportunity.
And bring home the run books and burn them in the back yard.
You are right! Wow is all I can say about post 10.
I was H1b’d in 2001 and trained my replacement. Trained him out write code that would insert text into a text record, for example. He was paid 1/3 of my salary: it was a reasonable salary for his skill level. The company closed its doors a year later.
I quit IT shortly afterwards as it is too easily sent overseas and I decided that it wasn’t worth it.
This is a very good idea. Unfortunately the people against this are going to provide more campaign contributions.
I was part of an exact situation. We were training Indians to replace American and European accountants, only because they were cheaper. Their work was lacking - for example our A/P clerks were coding about 20,000 invoices per month with NONE being coded to a suspense account. Our American accountants were closing and reconciling all accounts in a weeks time. We displaced about 70 workers who were replaced by twice as many Indians who still to this day (3 years later) can’t keep up. The only way they could match the invoice totals was to heavily use the suspense account. I don’t ever think that they made the close schedule either. And we noticed that questions are never asked, I guess that they didn’t want to feel dumb in front of Americans. I had one, supposedly degreed accountant, as me, “Why is the December beginning balance the same as the November ending balance?”
Yes. I wasn’t disagreeing with your quote, but emphasizing it and adding some background.
*sigh* Yep.
Walker is an acquired taste. I have had people tell me he is not as strong and decisive as Cruz. Wrong. He just has a different manner. A touch of the humble is never a negative. Look at the facts.
Would you Free traitors care to comment on the H-1B visa program? How “beneficial” it is to the USA?
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