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…
(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...
Your best agitprop graphic yet. I’ll spread this far and wide...
You’d be surprised how long this H-1B scam has been going on. Decades.
Give the replacement the worst possible quality of training. Show up late, leave early so you can interview for a new job.
Not much different from the outsourcing that’s been going on for years. A couple of jobs ago, my entire transactional accounting team was in Mumbai. We paid $25k a head because that was less expensive than having an onshore employee after taking the cost if benefits, etc into consideration. Had a team of 8 in one of my groups. I could have done it with fewer people on shore, and saved money.
I was willing to overlook, or at least temporarily, Ted Cruz and his support of this H1B visa fiasco but after he came out in favor of the idiotic mess of a TPP I sincerely regret supporting him as well as contributing money to his campaign.
No more money and now I don’t have a dog in the 2016 fight.
Oh, I’ll train ‘em, all right. The mistakes I train into them will cost you WAYYY more than you save on wages.
Don’t get mad, get even.
I experienced a bit of the fallout of the H1-B abuse while I was looking for a job in 2005. I worked in IT, and was generally acknowledged as being one of the “best” Novell networking people in the city. Not only was I certified on nearly every one of their products, I was certified to teach Novell’s courses on those products.
So when I was looking for a job, I went to a headhunter and saw that there was an opening for someone who was able to work with all the different products I was certified to teach! I figured it would be a slam dunk.
Of course the headhunter wouldn’t reveal who their client was, but I later learned that to “comply” with the H1-B laws, they will often come up with ridiculous certification requirements that they’ll publish to “ensure” that they can place a foreign worker, since no citizen would have those skills. So, even though I was certified by the manufacturer to teach all those classes, I did not get the job.
Years later I learned that the company that received the foreign worker found him completely inadequate, and they were forced to bring in contractors, who convinced management over a few years to convert completely to Microsoft. I learned that the company that had gone to the headhunter was a company where I had originally set up their networks (switching them over from IBM Lan Manager to Novell,) supported their IT department for a number of years, and even trained many of their network admins!
Had the company known I was available, they would have hired me on the spot, but the headhunter needed to place a foreign worker.
Mark
That was a nice sh!t sammich you had to eat. Sorry to hear that. H-1b is evil.
Perfect Picture!
This should be made into flyers and distribute them every where. Email it to congress, put it on Social Media, etc...
Staple flyers on poles... Well where other flyers are allowed and located.
Yet just yesterday I heard a caller to a talk show maintain that companies did not want H1-Bs because the process of hiring one was too cumbersome and expensive!
This has been going on for over a decade, why the fuss when its Disney?
Obamatrade is gonna’ be great...press 4 for English!
I've been displaced by H1-Bs on several occasions (on my last job by THREE H1-Bs!).
The H1-B program is not intrinsically evil, there are some jobs where a particular critical skill simply isn't available domestically.
We need a method to import the occasional Fermi, the Steinmetz, the Tesla or the von Braun.
We should have a system more akin to the one Japan has. When a company must hire a foreigner because that foreigner has a unique skill set, the must pay him 25% above the prevailing wage.
If they don't want to pay the premium wage for premium skills, they don't reallllly need him!
The bastards want the whole H-1B process fast-tracked.
If I was fired and ordered to train my Indian replacement, clearly it wasn’t for “lack of skills/knowledge” on the job or other performance issues. It also would not be for a punishable infraction (inebriation, theft, harassment, etc.)
Therefore file a government claim Equal Opportunity Employeer claim against them. They are requiring that the replacement be Indian, doesn’t sound like an open playing field to me. Did they solicit for black employees, asian, hispanic, for the job opening?
Yep. Indentured servants are soooo much better than Free Men.
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