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Disney IT Workers Allege Conspiracy In Layoffs, File Lawsuits (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes with the latest in the laid off Disney IT worker saga. According to ComputerWorld: "Disney IT workers laid off a year ago this month are now accusing the company and the outsourcing firms it hired of engaging in a 'conspiracy to displace U.S. workers.' The allegations are part of two lawsuits filed in federal court in Florida on Monday. Between 200 and 300 Disney IT workers were laid off in January 2015. Some of the workers had to train their foreign replacements — workers on H-1B visas — as a condition of severance. The lawsuits represent what may be a new approach in the attack on the use of H-1B workers to replace U.S. workers. They allege violations of the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claiming that the nature of the employment of the H-1B workers was misrepresented, and that Disney and the contractors knew the ultimate intent was to replace U.S. workers with lower paid H-1B workers."
Same thing happened to me at Nielsen Media in 2009. They brought in Tata Systems and most of the software developers were replaced with Indians. Is it too late for a class action suit?
Tata has been called in and you can watch, the companies profits and effectiveness go down by about 40% within 6 months, because it requires more time to get anything done. (Translation of everything into 3rd grade english might have something to do with it. those that hire in H1-B project managers take an even bigger hit.) Somewhere in all of this is a IT manager basing his entire bonus for the year on some bullshit claim that he/she "singlehandedly saved the company millions" when what he actually did was differ lost wages forward to the next year in terms of "Go back and do over to fix X, Y and Z" screw ups from miscommunications or things that were left out because of someone in a long broken chain where best practices were not followed.
You can't get something for nothing. It does not work, any engineer knows this and all of the claptrap rolling around the empty suits in the management level is the snake oil that you can save costs without losing something along the way. It is just like the Over-unity / Free energy science fiction some people buy into.
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-The Last American Smart Guy
Madame Clinton has taken $3Million in "donations" from Tata and Infosys so if you want to find yourself training your replacement a few months after the election you know who to vote for.