Issue for Trump
Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce and all their paid for whores in DC.
Well a company's only loyalty lies with maximizing profit for their stockholders. Reducing personnel costs is one way to do that. American workers must compete for jobs/wages with the rest of the world. Is that not economic freedom? The only problem is that the global economy is destroying the social structure (the middle class) that made America great. Which leads to the question: can America unplug from the global economy, and if so, is it even desirable to do so?
I have been in IT for almost 30 years. Seen this happen at least a dozen times. Once a system is in steady state, there is no longer a need for high end IT people except in an advisory role. Projects are one time shots and once the project concludes, teams are released.
What I have found from speaking with several IT managers is they would rather off-shore IT, do it wrong 5 times and mitigate the risk financially than keep high paying people around and do it once or twice. Also, what needs to be taken into account are things like shared services.
Ten years ago my IT department had close to a dozen Windows and Linux admins. Today three admins manage the same infrastructure which has doubled in size. I constantly tell my staff to get educated, get their certs and keep their resumes updated. The ones who fail to do this are the ones usually left in the big conference room.
I watched an outsourcing pilot fail miserably only to be called a resounding success. (The company essentially had to pay for it to be developed twice, once by the outsourcers and the second time by in-house programmers.
Management intentionally and fraudulently hid the redevelopment. During this time they had the outsourcing company come in and school us on the proper way to do development (repeating what was in our college textbooks 20 years ago), then fired us all and went with the outsourcing company.
I laughed at them and told them they couldn’t manage a software project in the same building, how were they going to do it on the other side of the world in a different time zone, language, and culture?
I was laid off on Friday, A week from the following Monday I was showing up at a new job.
Some companies have real leaders and develop actual products. Others are just playing financial shell games and ripping off their customers.
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Companies have no loyalty to to their employees. Employees are lower on the totem pole than machines.
Marxists are right about companies exploiting their employees.
Apparently, it has been going on for quite awhile. Breitbart did a broadcast regarding this somewhere around Oct. 21 or 22. I was shocked at what has been happening. They had a female lawyer and one of her clients on. Very slimy! There is no or little shortage of American STM employees. They just want to replace them with foreigners. Their main point in the interview was the more scary idea of knowledge transfer to foreign countries through this approach. I think there was a print article on breitbart.com regarding this as well. It would be worth your time to read it.