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I expected a by-line date from the 90s. There’s nothing new about this, the good news is if you work for a company that wants you to train your replacement (regardless of where they’re from) you probably want out of that place anyway. Use that training time to jump start the search, and don’t feel an obligation to finish the training.
Correction: "Because the government is PROMOTing this, at the behest of industry because THEY want cheaper labor. Someone from a third world country will work for far less than an American can or will...................
H-1B visas were supposed to be about temporarily filling jobs that could not be found locally because the skills weren't there. It was not intended to replace capable workers with cheaper workers.
-PJ
Wwere’s Zuckerberg to tell us how we need more techno-coolies?
in the business they call this “knowledge transfer”
My company was bought out, and the new owners immediately set about reducing labor costs by replacing the experienced engineers with indians. Every one of us went to the competition and got better pay, without interviewing. The customers went to the competition, the indians went home, and the company went bankrupt, all within one year. It was sweet.
Don’t get me started on outsourcing.
Not many American wants to speak to a non-North American agent when trying to resolve a problem. But companies would rather pad the bottom line and have some foreigner ineptly work through workflow rather than pay an American to do the job right the first time.
I’d submit that Indians wouldn’t want to talk to Americans to fix their problems as well.
For reasons like this one, H1-B visas need to be contracted, not expanded. American jobs belong in America. American servers need not be in some third-world country like India.
I hope this particular company fails under its own weight when the foreigners take over.
It happened to my son.
The Co. had the nerve to ask him to train his foreign replacement.
Took the Co. about 1.5 yrs. but they laid him off.
this is not new
Part of the answer to that is if your boss asks you to train a replacement under those kinds of circumstances, say “I quit”, and get up and walk out.
Training their illegal alien replacement has been the rule for American workers in blue collar and restaurants, and the trades and construction and automotive, etc., etc., etc., for almost 50 years in America.
I wonder if the IT guys were hiring illegals to do their landscaping and roofing jobs, and maid work?
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