#41 when the company I work for hired someone from India in a higher level of management, they fired or pushed out the 3 positions below them within 2 years. We switched to Office 365 and Oracle software. Many people lost their jobs that had been with the company for many many years. Both Microsoft and Oracle use people in India.
The Help Desk I am at has hired last august 8 out of 28 people that work in India and several more from another global company that hires people for 30/hrs here in the US. We are now limited to 10 min average time on a call, get berated by email for calls that go above and get points against us in reviews if we transfer calls to other depts as we are forced to because of the call time.
We had 3 new hires this past year, 2 of 3 found other jobs in recent months, none lasted a year. We have had 6 people fired or quit in 6 months where we did not have that kind of turnover before. The management is pushing full timers out for 30/hr a week people or lower cost if in India. Pushing chat over calls as the Indians do not speak english so well.
The manager spends too much time looking for people with degrees when we are being dumb down to password resets.....
I got my degree in IT and worked six years in enterprise IT operations for a large alcohol beverage company in Louisville Kentucky. Some of the things you mentioned in your post started happening… It was the worst time of my life as I didn’t like the people I worked with as they were more back room IT cynical type personalities and a total drag to be around but the more concerning issue was how the hell was I going to fix this.
I was very interested in healthcare and actually had some prerequisites that would apply. Long story short, got a degree in Nuclear Medicine and practiced for a while but ultimately merged my IT background with my clinical background. This opened up other opportunities within medical imaging systems administration otherwise known as PACS Administration. Also work with Epic quite a bit which is the industry standard for EMR. These two areas are the most lucrative within healthcare information technology that usually require a clinical background.
It was actually on free republic where I was lurking about 15, 16 years ago when I was in limbo and came across a thread that was going on about H1B visa‘s and just basically people disenchanted with their IT careers in general. Someone posted that they quit their IT job and went back to radiology school to get their MRI degree and will never have to worry about living with that level of uncertainty again. I was enrolled in human anatomy and physiology along with organic chemistry within the next 10 days!
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Sorry to hear your plight! Indeed, some sectors have been made very unpleasant by in-sourcing and out-sourcing from India. The whole recruiting industry now is dominated by Indians. Try a medium size company where getting an H-1B is hard.