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To: coldphoenix

This guy is a clown. Of course, they are going to pay less. Why the heck do you bring a guy from India if you pay him the same? This is why Americans can’t get these jobs in the first place!!


27 posted on 01/14/2014 11:24:08 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35
Why the heck do you bring a guy from India if you pay him the same?

Because there are not enough people in the US who get computer science degrees or want to write code. Guys from India may have questionable credentials and write poor code, but at least they're interested, know something about the subject, and have the potential to become proficient some day - that beats any number of US educated women's studies or film studies or English majors who might be interested in working for Oracle but not as software developers - the one essential job at software companies.


28 posted on 01/15/2014 12:37:35 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: packrat35
This guy is a clown. Of course, they are going to pay less. Why the heck do you bring a guy from India if you pay him the same? This is why Americans can’t get these jobs in the first place!!

We have an H-1B program because, at least according to our companies, they simply can't, can't find any qualified workers in this country.

This program allows them to hire foreign workers with equivalent skills for a fraction of the old prevailing wage. Yes, H-1Bs are paid "the prevailing wage" by law. The kicker being that the availability of hundreds of thousand of H-1Bs willing to work for half the old American wage is what sets the new prevailing wage.

Japan has a similar guest worker program, one that allows them to import labor to provide needed skills that Japanese candidates lack. BUT Japan requires that the Japanese company pay the guest worker 125% of the wages a Japanese national would command.

This allows Japanese companies to hire the people with the premium skills they need, and assures the Japanese workers that they won't be replaced with cheap foreign labor.

We could do the same in an instant here, if any of our "betters" gave a flying fig about American workers.

47 posted on 01/15/2014 9:03:26 AM PST by null and void (We need to shake this snowglobe up.)
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