Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com)

dcblogs writes: Two former Disney IT workers spoke at a Donald Trump campaign rally on Sunday, telling about the shock of having to train their foreign replacements. Speaking at the large rally in Madison, Ala. was Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker who trained her foreign replacement, and said tech workers are reluctant to talk about the problem. IT workers "are afraid, they're in shock," she told the cheering crowd. "They're not coming forward because we have been taught all our lives to make do and keep going on. But you know what? This little old grandma is going to stand up for what's right. "The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Moore. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."

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Mr Trump is for Mr Trump first.

[Anonymous Coward]

Whether that means offshoring jobs, or speaking against offshoring jobs as a means to the presidency, or hiring foreign workers to work on his construction projects ... Mr Trump will always do what's best for Mr Trump. If your interests align with his great, and if they don't he'll try to convince you that they do for as long as he needs your cooperation. The only reason Mr Trump is running for president is because he thinks he can use the position to advance his business concerns and make him richer than he already is. Why waste money buying off politicians when if you can get yourself into office it's free?

The Angry Mob

[KermodeBear]

Trump is the end result of lots of people feeling disenfranchised and angry over many, many years. To be fair, there's a lot to be angry about, but I don't think that Trump's supporters are really thinking this one through. People who are angry rarely do. They just want "something" to be done.

Welcome to the second wave of "Hope and Change" as a political platform.

Re:The Angry Mob

[KermodeBear]

It's certainly already starting. He's recently been threatening to use libel laws to silence news organizations that publish inconvenient content about him.

His tactics to win an argument include: Threats of lawsuits, flat out lies, insults, and talking over you so that you can't get your own point across.

If this guy wins then sane political discourse in America is well and truly dead.

Re:The Angry Mob

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they're angry, but apparently not about the right things. They should be angry about the growing gap between rich and poor, and the fact that the average American hasn't got any better off in the last thirty years, but if they were angry about that, they wouldn't be supporting a billionaire. They should be angry that their political system is basically in the pockets of well-funded interest groups that fund political campaigns, but a billionaire that bought himself a shot at the presidency with his own personal mountain of cash is hardly going to be the man to implement restrictions on campaign finance. Instead, they're angry about Muslims and Mexicans, who really, really aren't the cause of Americas problems. They should be angry that political parties so blatantly put their own electoral success ahead of what is good for America.

Oh well, I firmly believe that democracy means you deserve the leaders you get, so if Trump ends up in the white house, so be it.

training your own h1b replacement...

[Anonymous Coward]

should be evidence enough that the employer is lying when they say they can't fill a position with an american and they should lose ***ALL*** of their h1bs, those here should be sent back home - not allowed to find a different employer to sponsor them, AND the employer should be prohibited from applying for more for at least five years.

Re:Trump vote

[OzPeter]

I'd might as well be voting for some third world dictator thug. At least Trump is not a criminal*. That's about what it boils down to.

Given Trump's predilection for Mussolini quotes, his bromance with Putin, advocacy of violence, desire to gut the 1st amendment and love of eminent domain, I'd be careful what you wish for.

*BTW Trump U cuts it awfully close to being an outright scam operation.

Re:The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink

[Captain Hook]

I never got why they would ask those being shafted to train their replacements

It always surprised me as well, but from the other end.

Rather than being surprised that the company would trust the training given to H1B by their existing staff, I'm surprised their legal departments let them do it given the pretty much the only legal precondition needed to use H1B is that you can't find the skill set in the local population.

If you are having to use your local staff to training the people coming in, surely you have already proven the local population has the sort of skills need for the roles.