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Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Home improvement retailer Lowe's says it's laying off approximately 125 information technology workers, the third round of job cuts this year. Chief Information Officer Paul Ramsay said in a memo that the affected workers were notified Wednesday. He said the Mooresville, North Carolina-based company has spent the last several years planning a strategic IT workforce team to respond better in what he called "this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment." Some of the jobs will be relocated to Bangalore, India.
Why didn't you blame Obama when this happened? Because he did shit for the American Worker.
Obama's legacy is being written right now, and it is going to be not so kind to him.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Hmm. Sarcasm. But when Obama said "nothing can be done" you were cool about it. So, if Trump comes out against this - will you give him credit?
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Obama didn't get elected based on a platform of bringing jobs back to America.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Where was the outrage when blue collar jobs by 100,000s were disappearing all through 80s and 90s? Textile jobs, furniture making... before that auto jobs, before that railroad jobs ... White collar and the educated never cared, never bothered and were telling the 50 year old furniture makers to learn new trades. Well, it is all coming back to them, now they cry a river for the loss of 125 jobs.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I'm sure he'll be all over this. He cares about American jobs after all.
If he does, he'll instruct USCIS to pay better attention to H1-B petitions that are being adjudicated right now, and make sure that none of the petitions apply to beneficiaries with a comparable skillset to those that are being laid off. In other words: until these 125 people have a new job, USCIS should scrutinize pending H1-B petitions.
Let's be honest, that would only make sense, and if these guys are any good they'll have a new job tomorrow.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
I don't think people elected him to give his best shot. What did he accomplish in 8 years?
No, don't compare him to other Presidents that suck. We're talking about Obama. What did he do beyond doubling the national debt?
Obama seems like a swell guy. I wouldn't mind drinking a beer with him. But as far as accomplishing things, making tough decisions...nope. He had an open checkbook and gave everyone what they wanted, kicking that can to the next President.
The President can't write checks, only Congress can do that. Obama started his term during the worst recession since the 1920s, and left the job with a stock market at record highs, unemployment numbers at near record low, and 20 million Americans on health insurance who couldn't previously get it. On top of that, he vastly improved relations with all our allies around the world, who were delighted to get to deal with a mature, respectful, and thoughtful President after #43's reign. Of course Americans then deiced that "No, our President should be an uninformed, loudmouthed, bragging buffoon!". So our allies are once again having to deal with an American government that can't be unpredictable, untrustworthy, and undiplomatic...
Why exactly does Chief Information Officer Paul Ramsay have to be an American located in America? What does he do that an Indian in Bangalore couldn't do better for half the price in this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment?
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No. Working in a coffee shop was never meant to be a job that a person could live off.
Says who?
Exactly what authority says that a person working a 40 hour/week job in a coffee shop shouldn't make enough to live on?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...