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Senator questions, prods Microsoft on inclusion of H-1B workers in layoffs
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| January 23, 2009
Posted on 01/24/2009 9:24:29 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
In what just has to be a stunning coincidence,
Microsoft delays plans for West Des Moines, Iowa center:
Microsoft Corp. has delayed plans to build a $500 million data center in West Des Moines. West Des Moines City Manager Jeff Pomerantz said he received a call from Microsoft on Friday morning, telling him that plans for the data center have been postponed.
Telephone messages left Friday for Microsoft officials weren't immediately returned, but the call to West Des Moines comes a day after the company said it would lay off workers for the first time in its 34-year history, cutting 5,000 jobs.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:28:30 AM PST
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: John Jorsett
Can’t wait to hear the Microsoft response.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:29:41 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: John Jorsett
One could hope that Microsoft has been caught with its pants down here.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:31:01 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: John Jorsett
I don’t have a problem with having the H-1B program, but I would expect a proportionate number of visa holders to be among the layoffs.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:39:36 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Who is now in charge of the "Office of the President-Elect"?)
To: John Jorsett
could have sent to any number of IT vendors that have announced layoffs recently As the article suggest, it's not just Microsoft. We continue to import foreign workers (H1Bs) while thousands of Americans are unemployed. Bizzaro.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:47:32 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: John Jorsett
But but but the H1-Bs are cheaper and more fearful, uh, compliant...
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:49:04 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: John Jorsett
"These work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn" gee... where have you been? this is all they have been doing.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:50:09 AM PST
by
sten
To: cripplecreek
Cant wait to hear the Microsoft response.See post #7...
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:51:01 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
The threat of being sent back to Pakistan is far more effective than the threat of landing on unemployment for an employee who doesn’t think he should work 70 or 80 hours per week.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:57:48 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: John Jorsett
It was 1400 jobs, not 5000. But who bothers to try and comprehend a press release? Journalists should only cull the highest numbers and write a story based on those.
If Senator Grassley down’t like the H1B program, then introduce the necessary legislation to end it. If Americans want those jobs that would otherwise go to a foreigner, then develop the necessary skillset.
Lastly, since Microsoft hasn’t taken a single dollar of federal bailout money they don’t owe the Senator from Iowa any sort of explanation.
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:58:15 AM PST
by
Doohickey
(The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/24/2009 9:59:55 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: cripplecreek
I had a coworker back in the early 80’s who was laid off. The INS was at his door when he got home. They sent him back to Iran.
NO ONE has heard from him since.
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:02:20 AM PST
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null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
I had a coworker back in the early 80s who was laid off. The INS was at his door when he got home. They sent him back to Iran.
Sounds like someone made a point of contacting the INS upon termination. I suspect that's the law but for the INS to show up that quickly seems to suggest there was more going on.
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:05:52 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: cripplecreek
Yes. He was a bitter and vocal opponent of the Ayatollah’s regime.
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:10:10 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:11:52 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: cripplecreek
Nor can I. But someone did.
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:19:41 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 5 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: John Jorsett
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posted on
01/24/2009 10:25:48 AM PST
by
stevio
(Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
To: John Jorsett
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