[ScottfromNJ]

I used to work as a desktop support/network engineer for a large Wall Street brokerage firm. When downsizing occurred during the 2002 recession, the company used that opportunity to release American workers, while retaining foreign workers on the H-1B visa program. When I left, the bulk of engineers remaining were foreigners, which provided the company with cheap, easy to exploit labor.

Qualified American engineers need not apply.

[paulcissa]

I used to work as a desktop support/network engineer for a large Wall Street brokerage firm. When downsizing occurred during the 2002 recession, the company used that opportunity to release American workers, while retaining foreign workers on the H-1B visa program. When I left, the bulk of engineers remaining were foreigners, which provided the company with cheap, easy to exploit labor."

I'll go you one better....the Fortune 500 firm I work for now had a significant downsizing effort over five years that made no apologies for releasing over 10,000 domestic employees. In fact, while the layoffs were hitting every day, job descriptions and paper-titles were being changed to accommodate the "new" workforce of H1B's. It was all completely legal and I'm sure we're saving a ton on payroll.

I'm still here, but the last time I worked a project with another "domestic" employee was many years ago. I call all the H1B's "Corky" just to have a laugh at their expense. My number could be up any day.