An IT worker writes: 'Emotionally, we are broken'
April 25, 2014 11:39 AM EDT
Training your replacement must be an awful experience. It’s bad enough to lose a job. It’s an entirely different thing when you believe that U.S. government H-1B policies are assisting in the transfer of your job overseas.
Training your replacement must take enormous inner reserve.
There’s an IT professional who, at this moment, is training offshore replacements, the people who are taking over the work. This IT pro is also a good writer, and has penned a short explanation about what life is now like.
The name, employer, and everything else will remain anonymous.
The IT worker writes:
Letter here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/it-outsourcing/23833/it-worker-writes-emotionally-we-are-broken
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Ever.
The admin just worries about the INS, border security, etc.
and I've heard Obama question, more than once, the wisdom of sending foreign students
graduating from our schools back home.
Answer: Um, so there might be some jobs for AMERICANS?...
In a time of recession, especially, this policy SUCKS!
and that's what this country seems to have become -- just a bunch of "merchants", just another "market"
We citizens who fight the wars and pay the taxes get shit -- No loyalty, no gratitude, no nothing.
I'm truly disgusted.
....and make it seem fairer. You can even hybridize it into a kind of social/democracy with a Capitalism Cherry on top, but this behavior is inherent in the beast. It's made this way and it is only doing what it is designed to do: ''Make the most profits possible irrespective of anything or anyone else.''
This demonstrates quite clearly that Capitalism has run its course. And so we can expect to see more and more of this. When TPP passes it'll get even worse. And once the Internets and Net Neutrality are dead concepts, we will be theirs for the taking.
- That is, if we don't stop it.
K&R
Together, the major shareholders and the board, thirty to forty people, make all of the decisive decisions in a corporation: What the company will produce, how, where, and, finally, what to do with the profit the enterprise generates. The vast majority of workers in a capitalist enterprise are required to live with the results of all of the decisions that are made by a tiny minority.
Q: What’s the alternative?
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.
The reason why we’re interested in making a transition from the top-down capitalist organization of enterprises to a radically different cooperative or democratic organization is simple: We believe the capitalist organization of production has now finished its period of usefulness in human history. It is now no longer able to deliver the goods.
It’s bringing profits and prosperity to a tiny portion of the population, and delivering not the goods but the “bads” to most people. Jobs are steadily more insecure, unemployment is high and lastingly high, benefits are increasingly being reduced, and the prospects for our children are even worse, as more of them go deeper and deeper in debt to get the degrees that do not provide them with the jobs and incomes to get out of that debt.
The crisis we endure is the product of an economic system whose organization is something we should question, debate, and change.
~Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus, UMass link
- To change direction you must first think of it.......
It's all Congress's fault
then why the hell should anyone believe that there is any reason for the visas than to replace Americans with cheaper foreigners?
A) the people doing the training can already do the work, and B) other Americans could just as easily be trained to do the work.
In the first year or two I worked as a DBA/programmer, the small start-up company I worked for started getting emails from overseas programming companies trying to sell the boss on replacing me with their coders. In the 12 or so years I worked for him, even though my salary went up quite a bit, I never actually got to the point where the foreign offers from the first few years were lower than what I was paid the entire time I was there... According to industry standards, at my highest, I think I made something like 1/3 of what the 'average' coder of my experience and skillset did 
The rest of the jobs Americans are not skilled enough to do.
What a bunch of slackers and incompetents we are! Geez. No wonder the country has been on the ropes. Once again, we have met the enemy and he is us.
I hope politicians, big business and lobbyists will all forgive me for unjustly blaming them for so long.
ETA 
