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
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?
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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?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
One should always have an updated resume and membership in various professional organizations, and maintain a solid network of colleagues and friends. And have one more skill, the competition does not have.
I seem to be in the minority, but yes I would train my replacement and do it properly. No one owes me a job for life, and if it is in the company’s interest to replace me then so be it, I’ll find another better opportunity.
I was H1b’d in 2001 and trained my replacement. Trained him out write code that would insert text into a text record, for example. He was paid 1/3 of my salary: it was a reasonable salary for his skill level. The company closed its doors a year later.
I quit IT shortly afterwards as it is too easily sent overseas and I decided that it wasn’t worth it.
Would you Free traitors care to comment on the H-1B visa program? How “beneficial” it is to the USA?
“would you be willing to train your replacement if your company threatened to take away your severance pay if you didn’t do it? “
Sure, I would make sure he got the worst possible training, would not care about it, all the while making it look like I am working my butt off to train him.
I can play the game too, and ya never know if during that training, something like a major computer crash, or a flood might happen as well.. things like that just seem to “happen” sometimes.