Posted on 05/21/2015 9:25:39 AM PDT by cradle of freedom
On the Jeff Kuhner show today, he discussed Disney's use of the H1B visa to remove long time IT workers from its staff. IT workers who have been working at Disney for as long as twenty years have been fired but not before they are made to train the foreign H1B workers who will replace them. They are given a choice of having some sort of severance package and they cannot complain about the conditions if they want that severance package.
Marco Rubio is supporting the H1B program, he is a big disappointment to me. This H1B visa program seems to have become a modern form of indentured servitude. I don't know if perhaps it started out as a good thing but over time has become corrupted but it is definitely out of control and needs to be reined in.
“I would like to see a mass lawsuit by all of the many workers who have been screwed by this H1B scam.”
Oh boy so would I. I remember reading about the IT workers in California at a utility who were forced to train their replacements. How sick is that.
I’m a SAP software programmer and Business Analyst in a small company and I have had to fix junk that these “foreign” workers have screwed up at my company. Needless to say, we don’t hire from these resource companies any more for special projects.
My company has outsourced several key functions to HCL this year. It’s been an absolute nightmare and those of us still around have to work extra to cover for their incompetence the best we can.
H-1B is a fraud and an attack on middle-class American IT workers no matter who writes about it.
I'm sure management isn't looking at that. They're looking at how much the IT functions cost before, how much they cost now, and are high-fiving each other at the savings and what impact that will have on their bonus.
Only problem is, HCL quotes far more hours for the same work. So even if the hourly rate is lower, overall cost is not improving. And don’t even get me started on customer (dis)satisfaction.
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