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University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal
sethstorm writes: By sponsoring employees for use at an IT staffing firm, Wright State University may have broken new ground in guest worker fraud. According to the Dayton Daily News, 19 individuals were sponsored by the university yet ended up working for WebYoga, a firm controlled by (now-suspended) top Wright State officials. They also cited Wright State's exemptions regarding prevailing wage law and H1-b limits as attractive qualities. This has implications not only for the existing workforce, but to students that see the university putting its own staff ahead of them.
We got bought out by Paychex, but even that couldn't help us get any experienced people.
Pay more. If you can't get experienced people, it's because you're not paying enough.
the problem with "pay more" is that there's often a huge discrepancy between what a company can afford and what experienced people think they're worth.That's the whole reason why so many companies jump on the visa workers thing. Just like it happened in the auto industry, workers got used to high wages and are unwilling to consider the actual value of their contribution in a world where programming is now a commodity, so they end up replaced by cheap labor from a developing country. Same thing that happened to helpdesk, then sysadmins.
Of course it's easier to blame everything on pure greed from those evil companies, but see how much good this did in Detroit.
lucm, indeed.
Sooner or later, someone will figure out that labor comes first. It precedes capital. There is no capital without labor to make it happen.
Of course, "capitalism" is a sacrilege. Someone putting his money at risk to run a business is a piece of shit, while the people who get paid by the week for their time are the real heroes.
I guess that's why all countries following the teachings of Marx (who said basically the same thing you are) were so hugely successful.
lucm, indeed.
Don't take it from me, listen to Abraham Lincoln:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Well that's in the context of the North using slavery as a pretext to destroy the South's economy, so I'll take a pass on the infinite wisdom of this quote.
lucm, indeed.
Have you heard of Charles A. Beard? It's a famous historian of the early 20th century. His take on the Civil War sums things up:
social cataclysm in which the capitalists, laborers, and farmers of the North and West drove from power in the national government the planting aristocracy of the South
Obviously nowadays it is more politically correct to place the concerns of the slaves suffering as the top of Lincoln's list. Which is about as convincing as Bush and his "reasons" to invade Iraq.
What happened in the civil war is simple. The South had a huge economic advantage because of slavery. That's the part that bothered the North. The economic part - not the freedom for Black people (who were still second-class citizens in New York or Washington a century later). The whole thing was bullshit wrapped in lies and propaganda.
So when the North elected "their" President, which wasn't even on the ballot in the South, many Southern states called it quits and founded the CSA. Which was unacceptable for the North as they needed the Southern states as trade partners. War ensued.
The outcome: 1 million people died, and the winning side, the North, rewrote history to give themselves the nice role as winners usually do.
But of course try to raise that issue and automatically you're deemed "pro-slavery" or worse. Typical.
lucm, indeed.