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Techies Migrate in Search of Work

Posted by michael on from the bytes-of-wrath dept.

prostoalex writes "Tracing the story of one family where the father is employed in the IT field, the Washington Post discusses the current unemployment in the information technology field. For a good reason - for the first time in 30 years the IT unemployment rate exceeded the national average unemployment rate, implying that you have a better chance of getting a job if your field is something other than IT. The journalist does offer a disclaimer, saying that the term 'IT worker' is applied equally to a top-notch scientist in a research lab, to a dot-com startup billionaire, and to a local HTML guru. Relevant employment statistics also shows that layoffs in the IT field were up 60% in the third quarter of 2004."

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  1. In other news... by PerpetualMotion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    India closes it's borders. Mexico soon to follow.

  2. Re:ALL DEMURRALS ASIDE by blair1q · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet another duped traitor.

    You remind me of the Germans who didn't realize Hitler was all that bad until after the war when they were marched at gunpoint into the concentration camp outside their town to see what they had "voted" for.

  3. Re:mod this parent up by blair1q · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Not any more.

    For the next 2 years (until the '08 election season begins) we should focus on making preparations to bug out of Bushitania in case he goes completely over the edge.

    We can always enlist our foreign allies to help us get our country back. The way the Afghanis and Iraqis did. The Iranians are still waiting for our help.

  4. Re:Mod me down, but it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are an idiot.

  5. Re:Nation Wide Problem by ScumericanNazi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    H1Bs are the original "techies migrating in search of work" and have been for the last 2 decades in one form or another, unless of course you dont consider foreigners to be humans, in WHICH case this CAN be classified as a "new" problem.

    please change title to reflect your implicit supremacist attitude towards non-Scumericans.

    yellow man work hard in another country - nasty fucker want my dollar.
    brown man work hard in another country - nasty fucker steal my dinner and roof over mah head.
    white man work hard in another country - praise the protestant work ethic.

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    Sig Heil: Scumerica - Land of the Free* (* 18+, valid papers, health insurance, some restrictions apply)