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FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo

theodp writes: Speaking at a National Journal LIVE event that was sponsored by Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us and Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, FWD.us "Major Contributor" Lars Dalgaard was asked about the fate of 500 laid-off Southern California Edison IT workers, whose forced training of their H-1B worker replacements from offshore outsourcing companies sparked a bipartisan Senate investigation. "If you want the job, make yourself able to get the job," quipped an unsympathetic Dalgaard (YouTube). "Nobody's going to hold you up and carry you around...If you're not going to work hard enough to be qualified to get the job...well then, you don't deserve the job." "That might be harsh," remarked interviewer Niharika Acharya. Turning to co-interviewee Pierre-Jean Cobut, FWD.us's poster child for increasing the H-1B visa cap, Acharya asked, "Do you agree with him?" "Actually, I do," replied PJ, drawing laughs from the crowd.

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  1. Re:They're right you bunch of freetards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    10/10, top libertarian trolling, would read again!

  2. live by the sword... by supernova87a · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fair is fair, so let's make sure it cuts both ways, all the way up the management chain. Let anyone who can and is willing to do the CEO job for less $ take the position, and have to have the current CEO train his replacement.

    1. Re:live by the sword... by Feral+Nerd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fair is fair, so let's make sure it cuts both ways, all the way up the management chain.....

      COMMUNIST!!!!