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More On the Disposable Tech Worker

Posted by Soulskill on from the always-recycle-them-when-you're-finished-using-them dept.

Jim_Austin writes "At a press conference this week, in response to a question by a Science Careers reporter, Scott Corley, the Executive Director of immigration-reform group Compete America, argued that retraining workers doesn't make sense for IT companies. For the company, he argued, H-1B guest workers are a much better choice. 'It's not easy to retrain people,' Corley said. 'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward.'"

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  1. Biggest load of by HeckRuler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies

    *cough*BULLSHIT*cough*
    Does this guy think that the ONLY place you learn about new things is in school? Is he one of those pointy-haired bosses that doesn't think you know anything unless you have a "cert"?

    Technology is always marching forward. EVERYONE needs to march along with it. In real-time. On the job. Constantly.

    (That said, I'm an embedded engineer working in C. I'm "revolutionizing" this codeshop by showing them unit testing. And no Larry, just because we refer to them as "units" doesn't mean the blackbox testing we do is "unit-testing". WOOHOO for being on the cutting edge... of the 1970's...)

  2. Re:This is true. by jythie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The thing is, they are not better. They are cheaper in the short run but bad for companies in the longer term. The problem is that the people making these decisions are insulated from the impact of them, so naturally the people who actually pay the cost of short term thinking take it upon themselves to try to do something about it.