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IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: The IT layoffs at MassMutual Financial Group will happen over a period of many months, and it's going to be painful for employees. Employees say they are training overseas workers via web conferencing sessions. There are contractors in the office as well, some of whom may be working on temporary H-1B visas. Employees say they notice more foreign workers in the hallways. Approximately 100 employees are affected. The employees are angry but can't show it. A loss of composure, anything other than quiet acquiescence, means risking two weeks of severance pay for each year on the job. But maintaining composure is hard to do. "I know a few people that are probably close to a breakdown," said one IT employee. [A second IT employee described the emotional impact of the layoffs on employees in this way: "It's like a never-ending funeral."] Intel also confirmed major layoffs in April, which will affect some 12,000 employees or 11 percent of its total workforce.
Which is why Trump has his name brand shirts made in Mexico and his other products are made in China.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
He's a huckster, first and foremost, and has spent his entire career proving that people are stupid enough to fall for it, Presidential bid included.
Enforce the rules that are already in place?
You're only supposed to be allowed H1B replacements if your current staff can't do the job. Considering they all need to be trained beyond a document of server passwords, it's obvious they are only being picked because they're cheaper.
Enforce the rules.
Bernie's "free everything" has a funding plan that pays for all of it, and doesn't grow the debt. Only his haters imply the plan can't work, when it's about the same as everyone else's, with just a few numbers changed.
Learn to love Alaska
No, I got your point. I was showing the hypocrisy of those who blindly support him.
He says he'll bring jobs back to America yet refuses to manufacturer his own products in this country.
He say's the economy sucks yet he's making money at it by not employing Americans.
He talks about how much his stuff is worth, such as a golf course, yet his accountants value the same property at 1/10 what he says, thus depriving the community of taxes.
I read his book, Art of the Deal, way back when (unlike others just now jumping on the band wagon). In it he openly describes how he deceived and lied to banks to get his loans for the casinos in Atlantic City.
His famed Trump University? Nothing but a money-making scheme to get people to hand over their money. Even the people who used to work for him state it was all a big lie.
But none of this matters to his supporters. Not even the fact he considers failure (i.e bankruptcy) his first option rather than the last will dissuade those who are pissed a black guy is in office, the stock market is at its highest levels ever, all the jobs lost by the last president have been recovered and then some and gas prices are low. All they want to hear are platitudes and bloviating from a white guy who is on his third marriage.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inflation??? are you nuts? It's running 1-2% right now, it can't get lower.
30 years ago we had free, or next to free college in California. All the way through a Doctorate at the public universities UCs and CSUs, some of which were also world class.
Only I can judge you.
7 years of failing economy
This is the S&P 500 over the past 7 years. If that's a "failing" economy, I'd sure like it to "fail" more often!
Damn the Clinton political trolls are out in force. Seriously blaming Trump for the current state of out sourcing and H1B scammed major salary cuts is just so right wing daft, especially doing it on /. It is only the PR bubble that keeps it going, believing their own lies and believing everyone else believes (professional liars caught up in their own delusion of superiority). It comes off really lame and stupid blaming someone for something they adamantly had no control over and just straight up loses far more than it gains.
They should save the silly stuff for cheetos forums, where the sheep congregate, it just comes off a really lame and a reason to counter, not for any political reason but just to fuck up loathsome PR firms trolling forums.
I think Dr Jill Stein is the far better candidate better than Bernie Sanders and the even the Libertarian candidate is better than the other two. Perhaps the independents can throw the whole thing into chaos and ensure the other two are knocked out of the running. The Hillary Clinton paid trolls are certainly seem to be trying to make it happen in their clumsy right wing propaganda style. Typical of professionals trollers they are at the top of every forum thread, only to be shot down throughout the rest of the thread, so to those morons, really think you are winning, or just stinking up the place and losing.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Outside of a few beligerant countries. Obama is really well liked internationally. I'm not sure this is a valid comparison?
I mean I have no idea what the opinion of him is in the US. But out here in the non US, he's generally quite liked. Basically, he's not Bush.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
But out here in the non US, he's generally quite liked. Basically, he's not Bush.
Didn't they give him a Nobel prize for not being Bush?
IIRC, Bernie's plan was "significantly increase taxes on the middle class", which might actually work, assuming the economy doesn't tank as a result of the taxes. I like his honesty. When politicians say "tax the rich" what they always mean is "increase taxes on the middle class", but people keep falling for that lie.
You could have taken three seconds to check before making such an inaccurate statement.
https://berniesanders.com/issu...
Bernie is the only sane hope for change at this time.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial