Posted on 06/04/2015 6:38:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
i think they tie the severance package to the training work, so if you refuse to train the replacement, you are preventing yourself from getting the severance, which could be several thousand dollars. it’s a lose-lose situation for the American worker. both RINOs and DemocRATs go along with this outrage. the H1B visa program should be suspended for 10 years (or more!). if a company has a problem with that, they can move out of the country or open a branch in Bangalore or Beijing.
Why don’t they first attempt to deplete the pool of eligible college graduates in tech, before attempting to import Hindu, Asian, terrorist workers via H1B?!?
When I get out of college, I’d be willing to take similar wages—until such time that I have enough experience to command American wages.
$11-15/hr is a decent entry-level wage for someone fresh out of college—not much, but it pays the bills, and is still better than earning min-wage flipping burgers.
American tech jobs for American citizens!
$11 to $15 and hour for a new STEM graduate in the USA is LOW by market rates standards.
I believe the rate is closer to $22 to $25/hour.
At least that’s how I see new STEM grads being paid here in NY.
Sorry about that.
I’m not very familiar with the dynamics of the IT job market—I think the average starting salaries posted by the Government, and other sources, are somewhat inflated—it probably describes someone with at least 3-5 years of experience....
I live in Texas, where $22-25+/hr would easily catapult me to the “evil rich 1%” around here, in most places within the state.
Around here, a family of four could live comfortably on $13-18/hr—it’s a big reason we’ve experienced significant population growth. (How do we disabuse the newcomers of their liberal beliefs? That’s another story.)
Even so, it still looks like a fair compromise—it’s a “living wage” in most parts of the country (outside the liberal urban hell-holes), and Big Tech saves a dime.
RE: Around here, a family of four could live comfortably on $13-18/hr
Well, in Los Angeles and Seattle, laws have been passed that REQUIRE the minimum wage to be $15/hour by a certain year.
So, imagine a high school kid with NO EXPERIENCE trying to work at a fast food restaurant, and the business owner being REQUIRED to pay him that amount.... I wonder how that business can profit...
And....that’s where I come in: I’d be one of the guys building, testing, programming, &c. robots, automated systems that perform the tasks pizza-faced teens used to do in my day. (lol)
Hurts me to say it, but that’s what it’s coming to these days...
Disney has received the last dollar they will EVER get from me.
Why didn’t he leave before training the clown?
I bet this story is being repeated all over the country, someone check out Silicon Valley
yep. lock the doors, hide the keys
Training the foreigner is tied to retirement/severance package. If they don’t train their replacements they lose what little they have coming to them. There aren’t jobs for those replaced they are in a lose-lose mess.
I asked as I was in the same situation years ago but I just left because I was sure I wasn’t going to get a recommendation letter and I truly hated my boss. Money wasn’t really tight back then..
As I pointed out in my post he was a family man with a wife and four young children. Easier said than done when you're losing income, family medical insurance and the like.
Florida only has three companies in the Fortune 500...it's not a high-tech state...and certainly not a workers' paradise.
He received salary and benefits while training his replacement and looking for another job....and his resume remained clean.
Leni
Part of the problem is our education system. We’re not graduating geniuses out of high school OR college.
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