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Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers

Posted by Soulskill on from the looking-out-for-number-one dept.

New submitter genericmk writes "NPR is running an interesting story about the unfortunate status of the aging programmers in the IT industry. Older IT workers are opposing the H-1B visa overhaul. Large corporations want more visa, they claim, because of a shortage of IT talent. However, these companies are actively avoiding older, more experienced workers, and are bringing in large volumes of foreign staff. The younger, foreign workers are often easier to control, and they demand lower wages; indentured servitude is replacing higher cost labor."

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  1. "Demand lower wages" by Kittenman · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the ... ??? "No, I won't take $100 an hour. I insist of $20 at the most".

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    "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:"Free" Trade, What Did You Expect? by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Workers unionise. IT workers obfuscate their code. :D

  3. Re:Unemployment? by Shikaku · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's socialism!

    (Yes some asshole will say this and it won't happen even if it makes fucking sense and would 100% without a doubt save the US economy and it won't happen)

  4. Re:"Free" Trade, What Did You Expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Senior IT workers obfuscate using an encryption scheme termed "cobol".

  5. Re:"Free" Trade, What Did You Expect? by fermion · · Score: 5, Funny

    The majority of voters over 45 voted for Romney. The populous has spoken. Older workers want to be fired and replaced with more efficient and cheaper workers.

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