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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.
No, the point of H-1B is to replace high salary US employees with cheaper labor. Normally H-1Bs have to be paid the "prevailing wage" UNLESS they are paid at least $60k per year...that last part is what makes it so attractive to bean counters.
The owner class is hard, hard right. Like Robber baron grade hard right. The workers are left on social issues, but a lot are still hard right on the economy.
That's sort of the problem. There are lots of folks who are left wing socially (pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-choice, etc) but get real right wing real fast when they think they're taxes are going up. Our Media is left wing on social issues but hard right on economics. Free Trade, Trickle Down economics and Austerity are practically gospel in American media.
Part of the problem is folks look at just about every expense that isn't food as taxes. I've caught lots of folks doing it. Insurance? Tax. Phone Bill? Tax. etc, etc. The other problem is that after the Iraqi War Americans aren't seeing good returns on their taxes. Literally Trillions of wealth was just handed to a lucky few in exchange for nothing. We've let large scale corruption slide for so long that folks have lost confidence in the gov't. They've also forgotten what America was like before the Feds stepped in and started preventing super fund sites from happening (Flint Michigan Water Supply anyone?).
The other problem is Bill Clinton. He moved the country hard right so he could forge an alliance to get into the prez office. Again, left on social issues hard right on the economy. Trump brought up Tariffs but made it a point not to use the "T" word. What's funny is watching all the folks out there who know something is wrong but can't figure out what to do about it pushing Trump and Sanders up in the polls. It's gonna be funnier when Rubio or Bush gets the election despite popular vote thanks to hard right stuff like Citizens United.
Oh, and the colleges have been moving hard right too. Where do you think those $10,000/semester tuition bills came from?
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of American IT workers with South Asians IT workers have worked out for the corporations that have done so.
I've had the "pleasure" of having to work with a major American IT vendor who recently outsourced most of their services to Indian subcontractors. The crap the Indian staff tries to slip under our radar is just appalling. They are breaking things that are not broken and are completely incapable of producing any original solutions. All they can do is Google around a bit and copypaste a solution, and if that doesn't work they come back to us, the customer begging for help.
That's not all. When someone from our office gives them a working solution, they come back to us and present it as their own and try to bill us for it. It's just amazing and I've heard countless similar stories so it's not just this particular vendor, it's *everybody* there doing this. All the bright minds in the IT sector in India have long gone abroad, the remaining IT workers are the ones who didn't make it to the top and are left doing the shitty jobs. They got nice titles, though. You could accidentally mistake the local janitor for a CEO if you went solely by the titles.
So yeah, it hasn't worked out that well for pretty much anybody in the IT sector yet everybody still keeps doing it.
-SR
"There is truth to that. I know one Indian guy at my company who has said before that he sends most of his salary back to his bank in India and intends to go back home and retire early there."
They all say that. After 2 dozen years they can't stand the unpaved roads, the dirt and the rest at their former home and they'll just do a vacation there each year.
Not to mention, their kids don't want to be caught dead at their dad's former homeland.
Not to mention, their kids don't want to be caught dead at their dad's former homeland.
Or the wife and kids don't want the guy to return home from the US because they're too busy living off the money he sends back home. I knew a guy from the Philippines who got caught in that situation. After working 20 years in the US, he went back home unannounced and told his family that he retired from working. His family hated him and the village vilified him for being a lazy bastard for cutting off the cash flow. Last I heard he got divorced and bought a fishing boat to live on.