[dp0622]

You’re right, we shouldn’t regulate.

Cancel this H1B BULLSH.T and there will be nothing to regulate.

In the old days more than a few “free market” b.tches would show up here to support H1B.

I wonder if there are any still on this site.

[Viking2002]

You know what's WORSE than having to train your replacement? When they offshore the whole damn gig and make YOU go overseas to train them. I was working for one of the Baby Bells in the mid Aughts, and a group of us were brought in to ostensibly backfill to help with the internal IT services spillover.

My ass.

What we found out they were doing was getting all of the senior staff immunized, decontaminated, and postage stamped to go to MUMBAI to train their replacements as a condition of their severance. Well, being contractors who were hired 90 day-to-perm, we were not only lied to, we were two feet lower than whale shit in the oceanic pecking order. We were there to get thrown to the wolves and learn the senior staff's jobs while they had to endure the humiliation of having to go to a part of the planet that has open sewers running in the streets to train the person who was going to render them unemployed. The company's stance toward us?: You're lucky. You'll be the last ones fired.

Ah, but karma can hit you in the face like an eighteen pound sledge. I found a new roost to perch on after it became open news, and the day I quit, I found out the whole gaggle of recruits in India quit en masse to literally walk arcoss the street to another company and train for a paltry 25 cents an hour more. The whole thing got scuttled. Square One. Schadenfreude never tasted so sweet.