Posted on 08/10/2003 1:51:19 AM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:09:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ROYAL OAK -- After two decades of factory closings, Michigan turned to the technology industry as a possible economic savior in the 1990s.
But a funny thing happened on the way to becoming the Great Lakes' Silicon Valley.
Low-level jobs in technology and other white-collar pursuits began following those in manufacturing overseas. And now, for the first time, they're being joined by higher-paying professional positions.
(Excerpt) Read more at detnews.com ...
... Covansys ... cut 200 jobs from its American work force and added a similar number to its foreign operations... and the company's stock promptly jumped from $3.75 to $6.09.
Technology firms say they offer customers the choice of having the work done on-site, off-site or offshore. Most governments select offshore because it's cheaper.
I've read these types of threads many times now and the same story repeats itself. Idiot decision makers continue to use one criteria for all decisions: what cost less. I've been involved with both corporate and government decision makers who make the call to send such jobs overseas, and I can say that they don't even have a clue as to the details of what it takes to make/perform the products/services they send overseas. How do they know that they are getting a good product back from these overseas programmers if they themselves know nothing about programming? How do they know it's good code? What it the potential risk of giving away our technological advantages that took years to develop to our third-world competitors? Does anyone who makes such decisions understand the concept of unintended consequences? How long do they think these third-world competitors of ours will be content to be our servants once we are 100% leveraged on their services?
Since I am not personally looking for a job I do not have that personal interest at this time.
However, I totally understand teh requirements for citizenship for some secdurity clearances but I also understand many defence contractors also use H1b's and sometimes work is farmed out to contractors who do not have the clearances to do the job as though they were employees.
Now about half of what I saw was bnot security clearance related . Further I did not notice a whole lot of senior analysis positions that were. But as I said since I am not looking for a job I did not look for myself per se. Do you find it so hard to imagine a person woul;d actually have his nations interest at heart?
This is a key, but often overlooked point. Ads circulating in major newspapers, not to mention Internet sites such as Dice, Monster and others are often smokescreens for recruiters who have no intention of putting Americans in them.
The H-1B who fills these jobs may be only filling that post on a temporary basis before they go back to their native country as an offshore worker.
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