Hertz Is Pulling a Disney

New submitter wcrowe writes: Hertz is laying off over 200 IT employees, outsourcing the work to IBM India Private Limited, which has filed paperwork for H1-B visas to bring in replacements from overseas. This sounds pretty similar to what Disney did a year ago.

Comments

Re: This is the future...

[sunwukong]

H1-B is a non-immigrant visa .

Keep telling yourself that.

[cirby]

If you think "all companies that do this are run by Republicans," you really need to think "the few Republican-run companies that do this are joining the long list of Democrat-run ones."

Silicon Valley has the highest H-1B use in the US, and they're primarily left-wingers out there.

There are also a lot of H-1B recipients at colleges and universities, which are by no means right-wing enclaves.

Re:Keep telling yourself that - Fact check?

[mykepredko]

"Silicon Valley has the highest H-1B use in the US, and they're primarily left-wingers out there."

Got any proof to support that assertion?

California (and SiValley) companies are generally quite right-wing - the MBAs have a pretty firm foothold there.

It's because of the entertainment industry that people think that the state is very socialist/left wing.

Re: Either the workers of the world unite

[AK Marc]

Given the number of guards directly implicated in rape rings, I'm not so sure I'd consider it "passive". And agents of the government encourage the discussion of the practice to further scare people into plea bargains. That's actively promoting the idea, if not the act.