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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.
There's not enough developers to hire, so you have to resort to shady practises to hire them. My company hasn't had a single good legal candidate for our Java backend position apply in over two years, so we got creative.
So what are they going to do about it? There's no point belly aching about it if they aren't actually going to try and do something about it.
this looks like her kind of IT work.
Cronyism, kickbacks, and fucking the US working public's the word of the day for years now.
H1-b Visa workers need to cost the companies 2x what hiring a citizen does. The extra money should go to training for existing, out of work, citizens.
As long as there is financial incentive for this program to be abused, it will be.
I guess if they start bringing in cheap labor from China instead of India they'll rename the company WebTaiChi.
lucm, indeed.
Department of Labor required international staffing agencies to pay a minimum of $61k for developers in Dayton. These guys (also in Dayton) paid $40k. Do the students know this was going on? Did the academic senate know this was going on? The staffing company paid the university to make this contract happen. Wow...
Why do universities have an exemption for these rules at all?
You don't even get to see my Resume. It's all the tools, frameworks, development processes, and miscellaneous acronyms items that get listed as "requiring" an expert level with some number of years of experience. If, for whatever reason, I lack even one of those, or if my experience is only in something related (rather than some vendor's 2016 product), then I am declined in advance.
Listing a degree requirement without an "or equivalent work experience" thrown somewhere in there also causes problems. By doing so, you don't get to find out about how I was essentially self-taught, the independent games which I published, or even the relevant military experience.
Whether or not I could actually do the work is another issue entirely - generally, I'd have needed a few weeks to study the existing software, a day or so to familiarize myself with syntax (if not already known), and maybe a few minutes to figure out where the manuals are and how to use them.
After more than enough non-replies and politically-correct rejection-without-explanations from the few who didn't keep their requirements too specific, I concluded that trucks are not yet driving themselves.
- An "Unqualified" Applicant
Use third world people, get third world morality.
Wright State University is a taxpayer-funded public agency in the State of Ohio. So, they used taxpayer money to hire H1-Bs, undercutting US citizens. It's bad enough when corporations hire H1-Bs over citizens, but this is a public agency doing it. Ohio and/or the feds needs to come down hard on WSU. This kind of crap needs to stop.
I'm not surprised a damn bit. Hell, the school colors are green and gold.
Personally, I'd get rid of all the H1B's. Business, is screwing American workers, just for more profit. Of course, our congress does what they tell them to do.
Get rid of employer provided healthcare as a start in the usa to make us more like other country's also the EU has lot's of worker rights that we don't have.
The next killer is going to be the change of the overtime salary threshold right now someone can get paid $23,660 and be made to work 60-80 hours with out any OT pay.
What about the places that use staffing firms / IT contractors? There are lot's of loop holes there.
The big players have bribed the right people (campaign contributions, eventual employment in the private sector), and used the right high priced lawyers. It's only the low level scamsters who get caught. Then the authorities get to pretend that they are enforcing the law and protecting US workers.
It's just a piece of theater. Nothing to see here, move along.
Why is Snark Required?
Don't allow it. Person must be directly employed on a permanent basis by the company that is registered at that location as the primary business premises.
The equivalent Australian visa is the 457 visa and contractors and staffing / labour hire firms are prevented from using them for onhired staff
So, if rule of law, and respect of intelligence or social contribution has no meaning to institutions of higher learning - it means nothing at any lesser edifice.
This is pretty good evidence that h1b are substantial "game changers" and should not be looked at as "mere technical slave labor" as they currently are. They have corrupted the soul of the highest "soul-keeping" institution in the US. That means it works absolutely everywhere else. That means the economics are more than "cheap labor".
I wish leaders would think with more than their sexual organs and wallets.
from TFA: *Phani Kidambi* WSU’s point person on the Web Yoga contract, was suspended and demoted from a research position amid the ongoing federal probe. Also demoted and suspended was *Sundaram Narayanan* head of WSRI during the contract and later named provost, the second highest-ranking position at the university."
so, uh, anyone else seeing this as at best "patriotism," at worst racism? All that said, folks hire folks that they're comfortable being around, so it's not some vast conspiracy ... independent of that law-breaking stuff ....
Understanding our clients' strategy, culture and business methodology leads us to fulfill their IT needs with custom and articulated solutions. Our results speak for themselves
The results indeed do speak for themselves.
1. Offering excellence in technology solutions, utilizing automation, creativity and innovation to solve client IT issues.
They were quite creative in H1-b fraud by involving the university.
2. Providing service to our customers and affiliates, based on the principles of professionalism, integrity and the spirit of partnership.
...for varying degrees of integrity.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
You know what? Just lie. Seriously, just fucking lie and tell them you have whatever they want. They don't deserve honesty, because they have no honor. It's really come down to this. These assholes will lie, cheat, bribe, and steal to get their way with the government and screw over the good people. It's time they reaped what they sowed.
I think other commodities should be handled the same way. Why should US customers pay more for cellphone plans here when its cheaper elsewhere? Lets get H1Bs or equivalent for those cellphone plans. US customers can claim we can't find native cellphone providers with the experience we want at the salary we offer, so we need to bring in outside talent. We can argue the same for cars. There are cheaper cars made in other countries. And there are cars with more advanced designs in other countries that are not made available here. We need H1Bs or equivalent to get those cars in here to compete with the native cars. There is similiar case for cellphones. Cheaper and more advanced cellphones are released in other countries than the US all the time. There is a need for those cellphones to be brought in. Not to mention, internet speeds in the US is dismal compared to those enjoyed by some other countries, like Japan and South Korea. We need H1Bs to bring in those internet companies here to compete the the native internet companies here.
I am tired of reading this kind of horse shit. It's a free market when ALL jobs can be outsourced and not just the middle and lower class. Until there is a real free market, it's a biased system to elevate the people who already have money and fuck everyone else over.
There is also this thing called a Country. The US is supposed to look out for US citizens first and foremost. We don't, because the same pricks that want to outsource your job control the Government and ensure that they don't have to pay their fair share. Once again, the Middle class gets stuck with the bill and the people who have lots of money get off paying minimum to nothing.
99.9% of USA College and University Presidents, Chancellors, Board of Regents, Provost, Vice Provosts, Vice Chancellors, Administrative Staff, Attorneys and of course Foot Ball coaches are pedophile perverts! DaH. Where else do perverts rule in control!
I read your rant in utter amazement
I did work for others before I started my own companies, so I get the chance to observe this matter from both sides of the proverbial coin
This is what you said...
"... Sooner or later, someone will figure out that labor comes first. It precedes capital ..."
Dude, your leftist kumbaya can only go so far...
1. Capital *does* come first. Without $$$, how the fuck you can set up a company?
2. Without making a decent profit, how the fuck any commercial entity (ie., a corporation) can continue to exist?
3. Lastly, would you kindly provide us with a citation for the following?
"... when a worker does the same thing we're told it's bad for everyone..."?
Thanks!!
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
People who want someone with a degree want ..someone with a degree. Not having a degree, you wouldn't understand that, but college usually gives you a broader education than being self-taught. Sure, experience should factor in at 80% for most jobs, but that other 20% might just need someone who was forced to take creative writing and intro to philosophy.
Bullshit. Most jobs that require a degree could competently be done by a high school dropout with some additional job training.
Employers want people with degrees because it's harder to quit when you're staring six figures of student loan debt in the face, so they can work you harder, pay you less, and generally treat you like shit.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Unlike Capitalism, Globalization is a giant Pyramid scheme and Zero-sum WITHOUT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... AND http://worldif.economist.com/a...
Casteism
I decided long ago that I would not lie my way into a job, no matter how justified I may think I'd feel in doing so. I'm not going to compromise there.
I found my way out, and it involves driving. It was practically a "call the recruiter up and get the job" (after I obtained the license, anyway). I don't need to write software professionally. It's more fun as a hobby anyway.
Besides, if businesses in general are so obstinate as to be unable or unwilling to hire anyone but liars, then why help them? Why not simply let them have those who will tell them what they so 'desperately' want to hear?
quoted from "Moonstruck"