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Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in)
An anonymous reader shares a CIO article: Sixty-three-year-old Bob Zhang is worried about the future of tech jobs in the U.S. Will the high-paying positions be a thing of the past? Zhang thinks it's already starting to happen. He's one of 79 IT workers from the University of California, San Francisco, who've been laid off. Tuesday was their last day on the job. To replace them, the school is outsourcing some of their work to an Indian firm. "Usually, they outsource the low-paying jobs," he said at a gathering outside a school building. "But now they use H-1B (visa) and use foreign workers to replace the high-paying jobs. This trend is dangerous." It was a sentiment shared among the laid-off IT workers, who've tried to push the school to save their positions, to no avail. Now they fear other publicly-funded universities will take the same approach, and replace U.S. employees with foreign workers. "Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what's left? There's nothing left," said Tan, who's 55 and now looking for a new job. Kurt Ho, another laid-off worker, said he was paid an annual salary of about US$110,000, but the new workers replacing his position will fraction that amount. "In two years, I could be at another company, and I could be facing the same thing," he said.
so wipe the system, let the india guys fail, then charge $1000 an hour plus expenses to fix it.
(OP) Maybe. I'm only 41 so my vision only goes back to bush senior, then Clinton. My opinion of the clintons has changed drastically. Bush senior I always liked even though I was a die hard (and I did) democrat. But it is true. We lost our way. Even this gender bathroom craziness is absolutely insane. What is happening? We are seriously loosing our way.
Its the media that gives these clinically insane people, which are the extreme fringe 'freaks' of society a very loud voice. So we think it's bigger than it is. Like that gender crap. Its like 1-2 freaks in an entire school.
Send them to the hospital, not to the wrong bathroom.
The press. Fake news is actually a real thing. I was surprised when I thought about it. Then realized its true.