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Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers
dcblogs writes: A lawsuit by four IT workers alleging that outsourcing firm Infosys favored hiring Indian workers over U.S. workers now includes an account from a former Infosys recruiter about the alleged practice. It includes accounts by Samuel Marrero, who worked in Infosys's talent acquisition unit from 2011 until May 2013, of meetings with executives at the India-based IT services firm. Marrero and other recruiters "frequently complained" to higher-ups at Infosys during these weekly calls that many of the highly qualified American candidates they had presented were being rejected in favor of Indian prospects. In response to one of these complaints, Infosys' global enterprise lead allegedly said, "Americans don't know $#!%," according to the lawsuit. Infosys has denied allegations that it discriminates.
Management doesn't know shit.
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If Infosys is in fact guilty of discriminating against American workers by refusing to hire American workers for American jobs, then such malfeasance should be punished by confiscation of all of Infosys assets located in the United States, and by banning Infosys or any subsidiary of Infosys from operating on American soil.
Unfortunately, we can't just kill Infosys because they are a foreign corporation based in India. But we can damn well kick them out, and we probably should.
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Americans can't compete in that arena.
In this case "can't" means not allowed to compete because they are discriminated against based on race.
Well, based on nationality, actually. American isn't a race.
Americans can't compete in that arena.
In this case "can't" means not allowed to compete because they are discriminated against based on race.
Actually, no... They are discriminated against based on salary expectations.
Have you seen how many companies that have outsourced to save money have ended up cancelling it because they need people that can actually do the work and not just phone answering list monkeys? There are more than a few.
Before any of the hypersensitive cretins that love to take everything the wrong way start yelling about racist comment or something equally inane, a "list monkey" is some that just reads down a list or script and displays no more skills than a trained monkey pushing buttons, aka a "list monkey". If you don't know what a trained monkey is, you are a sad excuse for someone that is supposed to be literate.
But it also says they discriminated in favor of Indians.
What's amazes me is how surprised white people are when they find out that other groups don't believe in non-discrimination as much as they do.
Around the world hiring those from one's own group is pretty standard practice.
"Americans don't know $#!%"
If that's true, why is India scrambling to send all their children to U.S. colleges and universities? Sounds like just plain ole racism to me. I hope they get fined out the wazoo, have all their current contracts revoked and end up being banned from doing business in the U.S. (although the latter is probably never going to happen, we can dream).
Aren't they really discriminated against based on salary?
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...talking like employees are anything but serfs and like the USA is some sort of democracy instead of an increasingly minor subsection of an international oligarchy.
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But it also says they discriminated in favor of potential H1-B servants.
Fixed that for you.
That's the story. Infosys is nothing more than an H1-B mill.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
Have you tried outsourcing within the US? We have to because of certain regulations? It's the same. Nothing to do with India or Indian outsourcers (or outsorcerors!). The business model of an outsourcing company is very similar to that of your building contractor. They'd like to stay on till the next big project is lined up and then they flee as fast as they can.
This can't be emphasized enough. Ignore the racist cries that the brown-skinned programmers aren't as good. The simple truth is: outsourcing blows goats. Hire your own, or move everything to the cloud if you must save a few bucks (and hire your own to stay on top of that).
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So, as long as I hire white South Africans, I don't have to have any negroes on my payroll?
Oh, what's that? There's more to the legal definition of "race" as it applies to anti-discrimination laws than a third-grade definition provided by an internet lawyer? Well! Imagine that!
Maybe on paper at first, but I had a team of Indian's replace me - I was a TAM (technical account manager for a really big software company). Basically it was 7 people replacing 1 person. I don't think those 7 people were cheaper than just me.
Also - I heard they lost nearly every single account I had - which was easily 12m a year in total.