To everybody who has ever lost a job due to outsourcing to an outside company, it is a difficult thing to take, and I empathize with your feelings of betrayal. The lower bidder will generally win the contract, and even if you were an excellent performer in your job it was given to someone else. It has happened to me and to millions of others. I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market. Where there is competition for the same resource someone will lose. It is possible to make yourself the resource that others compete to win, that’s where you put your self in the canary seat.
Well said, sir.
Initially, this outside company was hired by merchandising to handle wireless transactions for shops and kiosks. They bid on and won taking over the back stage systems for the hotels, and have slowly taken over every responsibility from the in house group - which still exists, but is limited now to development tasks which will be deployed by an outside company.
I don't entirely blame the workers - management constantly chose price over quality when it came to hardware - cheap routers in rooms were the biggest issue, second came old wiring which they refused to replace as it would cost too much. All of these needed upgrades were completed within days of the new company taking over and complaints dropped to near zero.
So yes, you make yourself needed, you provide quality work, you've got little to worry about from outsourced competition. If you rely upon your union position to guarantee you a job for life, no matter if the job is getting done or not, you're likely going to get outsourced and lose that job. In the end it is simple economics.
“I didn’t seek protectionist government policies but rather focused on increasing my own value in a competitive market.”
It’s “protectionist” to ask that government enforce the existing laws and punish people who are criminally abusing the system???
And Cruz wants more H1-Bs.
I think these companies smuggling MILLIONS of dollars of software through the internet is a bit beyond ‘protectionist policies’.
The corrupt CEOs like Bill Gates LIED to Congress repeatedly and said that there were insufficient skilled candidates in the US to do the work.
They piss on my shoes and tell me it is raining.
That isn’t a level playing field, that is a culture of corruption.
I’d agree with you if it was Americans competing against Americans, but it’s not. I don’t think foreigners who are willing to work for minimum wage should be allowed to replace Americans, if that makes me nativist, so be it...
Ed