Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better

buzzardsbay writes "We all know the complaints about young employees. They depend too much on their parents' money, they need constant hand-holding, they have no job loyalty, they demand more than they're worth, they disrespect older employees, and they're naive about corporate culture. But despite this conventional wisdom, there's growing evidence that the different working styles of Gen Y workers might be causing fundamental — and beneficial — changes in the way enterprises run, especially when it comes to IT. For example, they may show better judgment when making tech purchases and are often better with green IT initiatives. This is a nice counterpoint to a previous story (and resulting incendiary comments) that dubbed young tech workers a risk to corporate networks."

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Re:Applause is in order

[Jaysyn]

Mod this down, Very NSFW.

Re:Mom's money, what's wrong with that?

[truthsearch]

I guess you've never worked in human resources for a medium or large company. I don't know about Microsoft specifically, but it's very common to pay H1B employees far less than other employees. When asked why, the employees are typically told it's due to legal fees to support the H1B. I've seen people threatened to have their work visa revoked when asking for a raise that was common to all other IT workers in the company. I've also seen HR turn away every qualified citizen for a position so they could fill it with a cheaper employee on an H1B. Meanwhile the H1B was specifically created to fill positions for which no local workers qualify.

It's not xenophobia. These are things discussed openly with HR departments. It's no secret that many companies use work visas to get cheaper labor.

Re:Applause is in order

[gstoddart]

Mod this down, Very NSFW.

Indeed, this is the third posting I've seen today (second from this poster) which looks like a yahoo.com and ends up being members.on.nimp.org (REALLY NSWF, don't go there) which will randomly show some of the nastier web imagery.

Nasty stuff.

Cheers

Re:Mom's money, what's wrong with that?

[cayenne8]

"But, there's two responses to your comment; the first is that 'ignoring resources' is not harmful, it's a violation of the H1B program; foreign workers are allowed into the US only if workers with a similar skill set cannot be found locally [wikipedia.org] (I suspect that this doesn't take into account the cost of labour, but I'm not sure)."

Except that's not how H1B works in practice. What happens is...companies bring in all the H1B's they can, feigning that they can't find US workers to fill the spots. There are plenty of US workers for the spots, but, just not at substandard wages. They bring in the H1B's at much lower salaries, and often with unwritten threats of termination or revocation of visa if they ask for more money. All this does is drive down wages and take jobs from US workers trying to live and raise families here. To a H1B, it is still a LOT of $$, but, often they just live here in poor conditions and send money back home. They accept wages that would be very hard for a US family to get by on with a decent house and kids.