Posted on 03/20/2017 11:33:36 AM PDT by Reeses
Protecting American jobs was a signature theme of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign. A frequent target of candidate Trump was the H-1B visa program. The program, created more than 25 years ago, allows American companies to fill gaps in the workforce from overseas with highly skilled employees, who can’t be found in the U.S. Many businesses use the program as intended, but we discovered more and more are taking advantage of loopholes in the law to fire American workers and replace them with younger, cheaper, temporary foreign workers with H-1B visas. But before the American workers walk out the door they often face the humiliating prospect of having to train the people taking their jobs.
Last October, Robert Harrison, a senior telecom engineer at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, was called to a meeting at the university with about 80 of his IT co-workers.
Bill Whitaker: What did they say to you?
Robert Harrison: We are sorry to inform you that as of Feb. 28, you’ll no longer have a job. We’re going to outsource your position to this company in India.
Bill Whitaker: To a company in India.
Robert Harrison: Yes, sir.
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Yep.
My secret weapon is asking “stupid” questions, BTW.
One thing I’m seeing more lately, that’s pissing me off, is people who used to be “devs” now doing PM or BA work. You understand why, yes?
> asking “stupid” questions
Yes; great technique.
If they admit that they were not great “devs” I’m a lot less pissed off.
You understand why, yes?
I will throw this out: I was a COBOL developer for 21 years. Often, at different companies, when discussing requrements with the internal customer, people would say, “you don’t sound like a programmer.” They meant it as a compliment. My goal was always to find out WHY they wanted stuff done, what pains they were trying to eliminate, etc. I’d put on my developer’s hat afterward, though I did consider the technical ramifications of some of the stuff they needed.
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