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Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers
heli0 writes "The Boston Globe is reporting: 'A lawsuit filed yesterday in California alleges computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. laid off thousands of American high-tech workers in order to replace them with younger, lower-paid engineers from India.' Could this be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?"
...if I was a younger, lower-paid engineer from India.
Think about it this way: for the money you pay an American worker, Sun probably hires two Indian engineers and still makes a profit.
The two Indian engineers will be able to support many more people and relieve them from poverty whereas the American engineer would probably waste a large part of his money on the unnecessary things in life.
If you are not a racist and think that Americans are better than Indians, then you should applaud Sun. If you are either a customer or shareholder of Sun then you should also applaud them: they either make more profit or able to sell at lower prices.
Long live capitalism!
I mean, capitalism's worship of profits would never mean tossing people out on the street in search of a lower-paid employee, right?! (Especially an evil foreigner!)
And even if it did -- that cannot happen to college-educated professionals! That sort of stuff only happens to eighth-grade-educated blue-collar manufacturing workers, right?!
Say it isn't so...
And the US is invading Iraq because of the rock-solid connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda's terrorism, and our heartbreaking concern of the human rights of the Iraqi people too!
But I bet a lot of the people complaining are all for "free markets" and "capitalism" when it means forcing 3rd world countries to destroy their economies by allowing imports of subsidised american products (think foodstuffs), but as soon as it bites closer to home they get all protectionist...
Bingo. Bingo. Bingo.
The H1-B Syndrome
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Companies suffering from H1-B Syndrome will begin with an IT department
staffed with skilled, educated American workers who know what they're doing,
and take pride in their work. They are payed well, happy, and loyal to the
company.
Once they get everything working to perfection, a shithead beancounter
upstairs who can't tell the difference between a server and a refrigerator
decides it would be "cost effective" to replace the American IT workers with
a sixpack of Hindus who will work for $0.38 cents an hour.
A shithead Department Manager, sensing his opportunity to make it big, will
get wind of this from the beancounter, pinkslip his workers, and hand over
the keys to the sixpack of Hindus half a world away who could give two fucks
less than half a rats ass about doing the job right.
Meanwhile, the executives upstairs will shout "This will save the company
millions!!" and pat eachother on the back for thinking of it . They'll go
home early, buy another minivan, and take the kids to Disneyworld.
Over the next 6 months, the Hindus on the other side of the planet slowly
fuck everything up to the point where the company's systems are on the virge
of collapse. They aren't held accountable for their actions, so they drop
their service contracts and move on to the next dumb-ass American company
who thinks outsourcing their IT staff is a good idea.
The executives get home from Disneyworld and discover this, so they fire the
guy who suggested the Hindus, and fire the Department Manager that OK'ed it.
Meanwhile, they work on calling the original American workers back in to fix
the problem.
The American workers then scramble to fix the mess that the $0.38/hr Hindus
left behind, trying desparately to meet the company's deadline in the hope
that if they do so, they can stay employed at the company. Six months later,
the new Project Manager will complain to the new Department Manager that the
project is behind schedule and over budget. So the new Department Manager
picks up the phone, pushes a few buttons, and calls up the beancounter (who
STILL doesn't know shit about IT ) asking for a way to be more "cost-effective".
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Bowie J. Poag
Hi. Please shut the hell up.
The "Hindu Race" doesn't need you as its spokesman, you jackass.
Bowie J. Poag