It’s still important to spread the word that most H-1B visas are going to high tech workers from Asia, not unskilled labor from Latin America. These are the people who are taking good high paying technical jobs from American workers, and sending their wages back to their home countries, rather than saving and investing here in the US.
My barber told me that when his son-in-law got laid off, in the last two weeks of his job, he was forced to train his two replacements from India. Within a few months, the company offered to re-hire him, because his replacements didn’t know what they were doing, and ended up costing the company a couple million dollars in losses.
Stories like this need to be passed on to the general public whenever the topic of immigration comes up. American workers need to stand their ground against this government-sponsored invasion and takeover.
The republican party is willing participants in this charade and have been for some time. There is no shortage of workers and never has been. This is all about money. Now we have a screwed up economy because few people are working. All to make a few extra bucks in profits and make next quarters numbers look better.
I went through something like that. My boss asked me to do a financial study to see what the cost would be to bring in coders from India to replace 50% of the team. When asked what would happen to the 50%, he said it wasn’t my concern.
I did my study, handed it in and without looking at it he told me I was going to present it to senior management. Ok...I’m now screwed because I put a big caveat in the study.
The afternoon of my presentation, my boss comes running into my office telling me I cannot present this. I asked him why. This is what he said:
“How can you say that hiring 20 offshore coders would cost more than leaving the same group of people in place? “ My boss never took into consideration the costs of fixing all the crap code that comes from offshore. In addition, because they are literal, any requirement that is vague will either not be coded or coded incorrectly. And they won’t tell you unless you specifically ask.
I been through this a half dozen times and stopped off shoring every time. They are great for project support, running database queries and creating documentation templates. Anything else, they are worthless.