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Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian'
jfruh writes "A former Oracle sales manager is suing the database company for what he called racially discriminatory salary-setting practices. Ian Spandow wanted to transfer a high-performing salesman from Oracle's India office to California. When he requested a salary of $60,000 a year or more for the employee, equivalent to what his white American counterparts received, he was told instead to offer $50,000, which was 'good money for an Indian.' When Spandow protested, he was himself summarily fired."
If proven true in court, this justifies a boycott of Oracle products by all us techies until Oracle produce an open salary audit proving no racial differentials between staff at the same locations. The allegation if true is disgraceful
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Umm... I don't think Boycott is what you think it is.
You really don't need to be justified to boycott a product/company. You can do it whenever you really want.
Besides no matter how bad Oracle gets, if your Boss says use this Oracle product or your fired, then you will probably be a little less outraged.
Now this if proven true in court, could be justifiable for Oracle workers to unionize and strike.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If a company is not a person, how do they have any rights?
Korma: Good
Yes and no. There are many well-educated, foreign countries in which US companies (several I have worked for) try to hire-in, in an attempt to lower labor costs. India is one, there's also Russia, Singapore, etc. It's all about supply and demand. US companies flock to these countries and start hiring. This increases demand and decreases supply. After a while, the salary offset isn't as large, and there becomes less incentive to do so. This is starting to happen in many countries, and it's a good thing for workers everywhere. (Foreign employees get paid more, less desire to ship US jobs overeases = Good for US workers).
Yeah, Larry Ellison has been a dick for as long as I've been aware of his existence, and probably a lot longer than that.
I'm reminded of an exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Ellison is no different than any other Type-A asshole, he just has more money. Arguably his biggest flaw is that he loves to flaunt what he has while being a huge dick while giving interviews to the press, so we can't help but want to punch him in the face.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Mono works on Android and, in my experience, the dev times are much faster than using the built-in APIs. Combine with Monogame, which took the place of XNA and has Microsoft's full support, and you have a really viable (though not perfect) cross-platform gaming solution. If you want to give it a try, I recommend Xamarin studio.
http://xamarin.com/android
Xamarin has been endorsed by Microsoft as a legal and legitimate cross-platform c# vendor for a while now. Microsoft may still be evil, but whoever is running their C# ecosystem is yet untainted. *fingers crossed*