My husband was forced to do this in 2008 when a very well known information retreval and law library company decided to off shore it’s IT work. Then they forced him to retire. He was 62 and had worked there for 30+ years.
This kind of thing is nothing new.
FYI: Offshoring and H-1B imports are different things.
My husband was forced to do this in 2008 when a very well known information retreval and law library company decided to off shore it’s IT work. Then they forced him to retire. He was 62 and had worked there for 30+ years.
This kind of thing is nothing new.
I am glad your husband was 62 and worked at his job for 30+
years. Fortunately, he was only 3 years away from retirement, and I am guessing he got a decent severance package for 30 years of employment back in 2008...
Sadly there are Freepers in their 40s and 50s who have had to endure this...loaded with financial obligations, yet ripe for age discrimination and minimal severance packages...and they were not 3 years away from retirement. Not saying it was easy for you, but it can be much worse...
It is not new, but it is expanding in breadth and depth... rate of increase is increasing too...
This is a travesty, and it is destroying more and more middle class careers.
Re: My husband was forced to do this in 2008 when a very well known information retreval and law library company decided to off shore it’s IT work. Then they forced him to retire. He was 62 and had worked there for 30+ years.
This kind of thing is nothing new.
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Sadly it wasn’t new back then. It was at least a decade or so in progress by 2008