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IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com)
HCSC recently announced layoffs for more than 500 IT workers, and expects them to train their replacements from an India-based contractor. But a few days earlier, CEO Paula Steiner said, "As full-time retiring baby boomers move on to their next chapter, the makeup of our organization will consist more of young and non-traditional workers, such as part-time workers or contractors." dcblogs quotes ComputerWorld:
What Steiner didn't say in the employee broadcast is that some of the baby boomers moving "on to the next chapter" are being pushed out the door. "Obviously not all of us are 'retiring' -- a bunch of us are being thrown under the bus," said one older employee.
The insurance provider argues that its members want easier technology solutions that "help keep rising costs in check. Our IT teams are being transformed...focusing on those and other member needs." But Slashdot reader ErichTheRed writes: Having a CEO actually say in public that their company wants to engage in age discrimination and eliminate full-time employment, rather than just carry out the work in secret, is new to me... for those mid- to late-career technical folks, how have you managed to adjust to new realities like this?
The insurance provider argues that its members want easier technology solutions that "help keep rising costs in check. Our IT teams are being transformed...focusing on those and other member needs." But Slashdot reader ErichTheRed writes: Having a CEO actually say in public that their company wants to engage in age discrimination and eliminate full-time employment, rather than just carry out the work in secret, is new to me... for those mid- to late-career technical folks, how have you managed to adjust to new realities like this?
Correction: The people under him imported illegal labor. Buying foreign steel isn't illegal though, shady or even underhanded. So what's the real problem here? That the people under him did shit that was illegal, or the people under him were smart enough to buy cheaper steel because it was a cost saving measure?
Then again, considering Trump has been speaking out against worker offshoring, H1B's and shitty trade deals since the 1980's. I guess that makes him a bad person right? Or is it that he's a bad person because those imported workers are brown? Or that the establishment rails against him for his view on that. The times being what they are though, there's a reason why he's got such widespread support from the general public and the establishment is railing against him with any type of bullshit they can find or make up. They're scared to death of even the possibility of him closing up those avenues to import workers and derail shitty trade deals. Hurting the crony capitalism games, and the current state of kickbacks and golfing-rounds done for political favors. Hell the area I grew up in felt the effects of NAFTA hard. I don't live in the US, I live in Canada(in the SWON). The land where a lower CDN dollar = more money via manufacturing. The unemployment rate hit 52% in the area I grew up in SW-Ontario. There's still huge factories that are empty over 20 years later, that employed thousands of people each. Sure some of those jobs would have been lost to automation. But it took over 20 years for it to recover after all those businesses decided to pack up and move to Mexico, where you could pay someone $3.15/day vs $14/hr($21/hr today). Hell, you guys in the US think you have it rough? In Canada not even fast food jobs are safe from imported labor.
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