I work in IT and many jobs are outsourced to India...so the 85K is a small number in comparison to how many American jobs have already been dished out overseas. Trust me, these contractors do not have nearly the skills they pretend to. they create big messes we have to correct over here in the end. Honestly.
Alas, your conservative brethren here on FR feel it is their right as business owners to import cheap labor and that they shouldn’t be forced to pay an “American salary.”
Folks, the middle class is being systematically eliminated from both ends.
Lower End: Cheap illegal Hispanic labor
Upper End: H1B Visa Holders
Make all the cheap plastic crap you want in China but if there isn’t a middle class to buy it from Wal-Mart what have you really accomplished?
Related Threads:
H-1B Want Ads Show that American Corporations are Giving 1st Crack at US Jobs to Foreign Workers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219914/posts
U.S. Visa Limits Hit Indian Workers (Cry me a f-ing’ river)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223161/posts
U.S. private sector job losses rise in March
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219772/posts
Don’t forget these visas are good for at least 6 years, so its
85,000 x 6 - (510,000) minimally at any given time. In 2008, it was ~122,000 x 6 (732,000).
In India H-1B visas are call the ‘off-shoring visas’ because they are used to support off shore operations.
You mean one of those messes like when I call and can’t understand a word they’re saying so I demand to talk to someone in the United States who speaks clear fluent English? ;-)
In 2001, we had to spend $250,000 to correct what 5 Indian H1-B's had done in programming faulty Active X server components for a big ecommerce website, which caused it to fail under heavy loads. I have paid higher salaries and used American workers ever since and have been very happy. My best 2 programmers were HS/college students I personally trained. The time and expense was well worth it.
‘Trust me, these contractors do not have nearly the skills they pretend to.’
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I have a friend who was told by the H-1B’s that he was going to be replaced by them because he was ‘a stupid lazy American’.
These same H-1B’s were responsible for a major billing error, that cost the company millions.