Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the talk-to-the-bobs dept.

ErichTheRed writes: A company called Cengage Learning now joins the Toys 'R Us, Disney and Southern California Edison IT offshoring club. Apparently, even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users. As a final insult, the article describes a pretty humiliating termination process was used. Is it time to think about a professional organization before IT goes the way of manufacturing?

3 of 607 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Where do the consumers come from? by peragrin · · Score: 4, Funny

    it is called trickle down economics. The 1% will hire us still right?

    we should give them more tax breaks just to be certain.

    --
    i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
  2. Re:Professional organization? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The problem is that investigating H1B abuse takes a lot of man-power, and the people with the relevant skills just aren't available in the US.
    There are these guys in India that I know, who's CV is remarkably like the set of skills we require to do this investigation that you're asking for, we just need a way to get them visas to come over to the USA...

  3. Re: Professional organization? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    *** SMACK*** is the sound of dave420 going down getting bitchslapped by apk http://slashdot.org/comments.p...