Of course they are more worried about a cyber attack which will look like a purple eye on their resume. While a recession will only make them out of a job, for which they have their golden parachutes ready. Of course they do not care about the rank-and-file they will leave behind without jobs and without a possibility of employment for the months or may be years to come. Is this a surprise to anyone ?
If this guy, who paid the full price for those 3 movies and now, have nothing to show for, goes to Piratebay and downloads these movies,albeit from not kosher sources, I personally have no problem with that. And I work in the media industry. This is chickensh!t what Apple is doing. Refund the guy's money to the last penny. Your corporate losing the right to distribute that movie, doesn't bind him to give his money to you unconditionally. And this is why I never buy any music or movies online. If they offer it to me free of charge as a promotion, yes, I'll take it. But I will never give my hard earned money to a soulless corporation, like Apple, Amazon, Walmart etc. for the privilege of enjoying my media as long as *they* allow me to.
College education is not expected to give you the knowledge to succeed in the business world. College education should teach one critical thinking or, in other words, being analytical. Any code jockey can learn to code few thing here and another few there, but of he/she (will be referred as he in general from this point on, not to be confused with sexism) doesn't know why he needs to write the code that way, this person is doomed to fail. And knowing why the code has to be written in a certain way, requires understanding of the need for that code, hence the analytical mindset.
Take a network "engineer" who is not a college grad, but he knows that a 100baseT or 1000baseT cable can not be any longer than 328 ft in length. It is a fact that anyone can memorize. But if you have the electrical engineering degree, or similar, you know, you can go farther than that under certain condition, but you can not go say 1000ft without causing major strain on your network. And the reason for that comes from the physics and the Ethernet signalling of CSMA/CD principle. Can't you find anyone who understands CSMA/CD without a college education. Of course you can, but as one lowers the barrier to entry, more of the clueless will trickle in and at the end of the day, ones who understand what is behind the scenes will get tired of the dummies and leave. Then your shop will be run by proverbial monkeys, who knew what to do to get a banana but don't know and don't care where that banana is coming from. And some of these monkeys, will be called engineers. What a travesty...
$ 3mil is like peanuts money for most well established charities like March Of Dimes, in the US. I am just wondering how much they pay to their top brass as compensation. This sounds like a ploy to garner public outcry and *encourage* people to donate more to them. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense. I very much dislike charitable organizations which go such cloak and dagger ways to get attention.
Okay, I have never worked at a dining establishment or for that matter anywhere that allows or expects tips, but being a customer of lots of those places, I have a couple of words to those who think their livelihood is endangered. A tip, as most servers or restaurant staff thinks today, is not mandatory. If you are accepting tip as part of your payment structure, it is not my problem, the customer. If you treat me well and go above and beyond your call of duty, which is to take my order for and serve me my food and drinks, it will not go unnoticed. But if I have to beg you for a refill every time my cup goes empty, you either are paying better attention to other patrons (from whom you are expecting better tips obviously) or you just don't care about your customers at all and thinking that they will all leave you the customary 15% tip and that's good. Newsflash: I paid for my food the outrageous price that restaurateur has charged me already, which included part of what he is paying you. And you made me feel like crap and you expect 15% gratuity ? For what ? Oh, the owner is not hiring enough waiters and making you take more tables than you can handle and your service is slipping because of that ? Then quit and go somewhere else or I have a better idea, find a job where you get a steady paycheck, not reliant on tips. But oh no, this job has so much flexibility. You only have to work 5 hours a day and make it like a bandit from the tips you receive. Right ? Well, sorry to crack you the bad news but every employee who works for someone else, gets what he or she deserves. Not a penny more or less. If you are good at your job, money will come to you naturally. If you suck at it, again, not my problem.
I mean, c'mon. There are apple fanboys but their numbers are not enough to catapult this idiot into anything or anyone who would have a say-so about how the country is administered or how the economy runs. He has a grandeur vision of himself. May be has one of those funny mirrors in his office making him look like much bigger than he is and he started believing it.
And rightfully so. Previous administrations have heard a lot from the special interests of businesses before and acted accordingly. This administration is different and it is about damn time.
Seriously, can I be hired in place of one of those who left, probably the best job of their lives ? Over what ? A moronic principle. There is no company who can say they will not work with/for the government and/or military. Otherwise how will the government will spend the money, supposedly paid to $725 for single hammer or $2200 worth of toilet seats ? C'mon people. Be reasonable. Really,. if someone from google is looking for a replacement for one of their childish employees who left, I am here to replace. Just drop a response.
Will it say the folksy names for the landmarks. As an 8 years long Atlanta GA dweller, I'd like to hear google maps utter the words "Turn right at the Big Chicken on to Cobb Parkway", as I was told many, many times by the old timers, when I lived there. I did not notice that it was a KFC location, for a long long time.
While you are riding on your high horses, declaring Google should not be evil, China's and North Korea's and god only knows however many other banana republics are plotting their ways to annihilate the US. If a private company efforts, like Google, is going to help US eliminate these threats, your, I don't give a rat's ass what your moronic brains think. If you don't want to work for Google, I am sure Facebook or Microsoft will be waiting for you with open arms. Oh, hold on, neither of those would probably fit your ideals as well. May be you should go found a start up and see how the real world operates.
Really ? They call him a "Professional" ? On what basis ? Professionals do not scream at other people and use profanity, let alone to their bosses. And when professionals understand that their services are not wanted, they just leave quietly unless their opinions are explicitly wanted, at which point they can criticize their superiors skills or lack there of, using a proper language. Trashing an ex-employer's equipment is childish at best. Far from being a professional. Regarless how bad your management may be. Definitely in the list of "Absolute no-no's" of a professional.
Yet their payroll in India is a quarter of that of the US employees. Yee-haw.... More money for IBM. Lay off those US based moochers:) you can do it ! On the more serious side where or when this will end ?
At the beginning there was HTML. It was easily accessible for anyone with the simplest of text editors like notepad.exe on windows. Since anyone could put a few lines of HTML code and publish it, almost everyone, and their mother, did... I can still remember the horrendous hot pink background home pages some people created. Or even worse, flashing red marquees, or animated GIFs. Gawd.. more I think, more I get nauseated. What is different today ? Well everyone, and again, their mother, have a smartphone with camera which can shoot video. And sites like YouTube or Vimeo or many other similar sites, provide a platform to publish these videos for free. And everyone thinks that, taking a picture of their dog pooping, is so interesting for the rest of us and I should watch this drivel repeatedly. There is gluttony of resources and people with too much free time in their hands, with the idea of striking it rich like pewdiepie or Justin friggen Bieber. What could go wrong ? And yet we are here...
Simple economic principle. If two entities are doing the same exact thing with the same quality, use the one which costs you less. Automation is going cheaper and more accurate everyday, while the states like mine, i.e. California, think that flipping burgers at MickeyD's should be treated as careers and raise the pay rates for jobs, which were supposed to be summer jobs for kids on vacation.
If you are 30 and working at a burger joint for minimum wage, regardless how good that minimum wage rate is, you need to re-evaluate your life and see how you can improve yourself, instead of relying on others to foot the bill for your poor choices. Sorry for you, but it is the truth.
Zuck, should take his brilliant ideas of his and put it somewhere they will see no daylight. In this country, thanks to the legislation liberal governments passed, we have the do-nothing-collect-paycheck crowd already. We need to find a way to convert those good-for-nothing people into a semi-productive members of society, not to increase the numbers of them. But of course, universal income receiving lazy-ass mo-fo's will spend their every waking moments on social networking sites, mainly facebook. Of course this will butter the bread, zuck has been holding and feeling there is no more butter coming. He needs more people with a lot of time in their hands and nothing else to do in life. What is better than universal income receiving lazy people ? Absolutely nothing. Self serving anyone ?
If a company looks at a non-working backups as a minor inconvenience, I think the CTO's ass should be on the firing line before this poor guy's. Yes, wat he did is inexcusable and in some cases, firing might be justifiable (as in, a junior developer on his first day in his/her job doing what on a production database case) but if someone assigned him/her to perform anything on the company-critical data, that person should be the one getting fired, not this guy's. I am a 20+ year experienced sysadmin and not too long time ago, when I started at a new position, I was not able to touch any system other than few development machines for 2+ months of my start date and I know/knew my shit. This company management shows their incompetency in more ways than one. Yet they are making this person the scapegoat. Good riddance to them, as their days are numbered.
All religious communities are socialist economies by their nature. All religions dictate that it is a sin that you go to bed with a full tummy while your neighbor is starving. You have to share. It has different names in all religions but in Islam, it is known as Fitrah (or something sounding very similar to this) and if you are above average wealth, you have to donate 1/40th of all your worldly possession to the mosque and the honest people (of my ass if you ask me) like mullah and imam's, will distribute these donations to the needy. Iran runs with sharia laws. So, a basic income without the government mandate is a very plausible set up for their citizens. For them, UBI is just a name change and provider change for the income. Here in the US, I see ton of welfare mothers with 3-4 children in their tow, shopping at the supermarket and buying the most expensive cut of meat and mist expensive cheese they can get their hands on. Of course, their off the book boyfriend is providing them the necessities and the welfare money is their ticket to luxury items. Giving them UBI may just take the burden of giving birth, unless of course they can double dip. US has a chronically lazy segment of population and unless all free money sources dry out, you can not expect these lazy mofo's to put in a hard day's work.UB I might be okay in already socialist economies, until they can not tax actually working people any more. By that time, if robots are doing all the work, nobody will want to work. If I work and get the same money as the UBI recipient, why should I bust my ass ? When we reach the singularity, we can discuss UBI again, but until than it is a losing bet for the working population. Because there always will be some smartass who thinks he/she can game the system.
I didn't know that, as US of A, we have a responsibility to keep the India's tech sector afloat, by allowing them to dump their tech workforce as a cheap replacement for American workers. What a shocker. These guys are far worse than the entitled minded millennial generation.As far as I am concerned, they can pack their bags and go home and stew in their own pot. For the past 20 years, US has given too much leeway to these clowns. Time to reclaim it back.
But, what are they willing to pay for those 10K workers ? The same amount of poverty level wages they pay to their indentured servants or actual American standard wages. If it is the former, no one will show up and they will say, "we offered but no one took the jobs" and give themselves a public show of legitimacy; If they go with the latter approach, they will piss off their workforce on H-1B visa, as there will be a huge pay gap between two groups.
Doesn't sound sincere to me.
>> How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
Well, if you can find Americans to fill those positions, more power to you and you should give preference to hire them as you can avoid the cost of processing an H-1B visa, let alone avoiding visa processing period. But if you are not finding the person in the US, you can not create one out of the thin air. Experience comes with hard work and doing your time on any given subject. If the remaining 10 candidates who can do this job, don;t want to work at this position, what should the employer do ? Let it go unfilled ? Of course not.
Having said that, making a position look like it requires million different skills and when you hire a person for that position, making this person to fill a help desk seat is not uncommon. So, I am not raising my hopes too high on this statement.
The most effective way to prevent these indian abusers of H-1B visa would be to issue the visa to the individual and eliminate his or her indentured servant status. Let's see, which one of those companies would shell out $2000+attorney fees for someone who can jump ship 2 days after starting to work for them making peanuts money compared to the rest of his/her peers.
Well, I am in my 50's and can relate to the OP. I have degrees in EE and I started working in electronics production line as a test engineer and got involved in computer aided testing, because I took a couple of Fortran IV classes in college. Nobody told me how this is done. They handed me an half-assed HP instrumentation manual and a HP Rocky Mountain Basic users manual and said, go figure it out. Took me a while but I did it and liked it so much, 7 years later I was leaving electronics and converting into a full time IT role. But, while I was a kid, or I was in school, I mean from elementary to college, I was taught to never give up, until you find the solution to your problem. Nowadays, I am noticing, fresh grads don't come with that mind set. For instance, we were interviewing for a sysadmin position and I asked, "All of a sudden you noticed that your connection to the network has dropped. What would you do ?" Answer was very disconcerting: "I call help desk and log a ticket to get it fixed. You have a help desk for this. Right ?". I would have expected an answer like, I would check my network settings and see if anything has changed, then ask people near me, if they are experiencing similar issues. I mean basic steps of troubleshooting, but no, heeeeelllll no. Why bother while you can offload that to someone else ? Then they have the audacity to cry then do not get paid as their friends in this and that company. Maybe, just may be if they could be a little more into what the position entails, they might get ahead faster. But with that "it is not my job" attitude, it is very hard to respect these people. And when OP says generic engineers, I see past the derogatory meaning that most people seem to be stuck on. He means, engineers who are stuck in their line of specialization and don't want to look outside for other, relevant things. In my opinion, teaching this type of person, something new, is damn near impossible. The only way is to hire engineers with open minds. They will end up learning these tools on their own.
If one's duties can be performed by someone on the other end of the planet for a fraction of the cost, those American-Made values will soon be replaced by another Value, called profits. So the job security aspect of your mid-west living is just a pipe dream. It may buy you another 2-3 years if you are lucky but after that, those people will also need to compete with the same people, who are getting their IT done at a much cheaper cost. It is a lose-lose deal. There is no winner in this scheme who is an American worker, living in the US, needing higher than world average compensation, because, those $4K/mo mortgages do not adjust due to your job being outsourced. If all my creditors and suppliers (as in food, cleaning, utilities etc) were willing take 25% of what they are getting from me now, I'd be happy to work for 25% of what I am making right now. Is that gona happen ? Fuck NO ! So, why would I lay down and take this bullshit as it comes, as some obviously foreign people are suggesting smugly ? What I say to them, go to your hell hole of a country and stew in your own dirt instead of spending big words like globalism.
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Of course they are more worried about a cyber attack which will look like a purple eye on their resume. While a recession will only make them out of a job, for which they have their golden parachutes ready. Of course they do not care about the rank-and-file they will leave behind without jobs and without a possibility of employment for the months or may be years to come. Is this a surprise to anyone ?
If this guy, who paid the full price for those 3 movies and now, have nothing to show for, goes to Piratebay and downloads these movies,albeit from not kosher sources, I personally have no problem with that. And I work in the media industry. This is chickensh!t what Apple is doing. Refund the guy's money to the last penny. Your corporate losing the right to distribute that movie, doesn't bind him to give his money to you unconditionally. And this is why I never buy any music or movies online. If they offer it to me free of charge as a promotion, yes, I'll take it. But I will never give my hard earned money to a soulless corporation, like Apple, Amazon, Walmart etc. for the privilege of enjoying my media as long as *they* allow me to.
College education is not expected to give you the knowledge to succeed in the business world. College education should teach one critical thinking or, in other words, being analytical. Any code jockey can learn to code few thing here and another few there, but of he/she (will be referred as he in general from this point on, not to be confused with sexism) doesn't know why he needs to write the code that way, this person is doomed to fail. And knowing why the code has to be written in a certain way, requires understanding of the need for that code, hence the analytical mindset. Take a network "engineer" who is not a college grad, but he knows that a 100baseT or 1000baseT cable can not be any longer than 328 ft in length. It is a fact that anyone can memorize. But if you have the electrical engineering degree, or similar, you know, you can go farther than that under certain condition, but you can not go say 1000ft without causing major strain on your network. And the reason for that comes from the physics and the Ethernet signalling of CSMA/CD principle. Can't you find anyone who understands CSMA/CD without a college education. Of course you can, but as one lowers the barrier to entry, more of the clueless will trickle in and at the end of the day, ones who understand what is behind the scenes will get tired of the dummies and leave. Then your shop will be run by proverbial monkeys, who knew what to do to get a banana but don't know and don't care where that banana is coming from. And some of these monkeys, will be called engineers. What a travesty...
$ 3mil is like peanuts money for most well established charities like March Of Dimes, in the US. I am just wondering how much they pay to their top brass as compensation. This sounds like a ploy to garner public outcry and *encourage* people to donate more to them. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense. I very much dislike charitable organizations which go such cloak and dagger ways to get attention.
This pricing thing stinks to high heavens as money laundering schema, especially considering mentioning of Russian inflow to the author's website.
Okay, I have never worked at a dining establishment or for that matter anywhere that allows or expects tips, but being a customer of lots of those places, I have a couple of words to those who think their livelihood is endangered. A tip, as most servers or restaurant staff thinks today, is not mandatory. If you are accepting tip as part of your payment structure, it is not my problem, the customer. If you treat me well and go above and beyond your call of duty, which is to take my order for and serve me my food and drinks, it will not go unnoticed. But if I have to beg you for a refill every time my cup goes empty, you either are paying better attention to other patrons (from whom you are expecting better tips obviously) or you just don't care about your customers at all and thinking that they will all leave you the customary 15% tip and that's good. Newsflash: I paid for my food the outrageous price that restaurateur has charged me already, which included part of what he is paying you. And you made me feel like crap and you expect 15% gratuity ? For what ? Oh, the owner is not hiring enough waiters and making you take more tables than you can handle and your service is slipping because of that ? Then quit and go somewhere else or I have a better idea, find a job where you get a steady paycheck, not reliant on tips. But oh no, this job has so much flexibility. You only have to work 5 hours a day and make it like a bandit from the tips you receive. Right ? Well, sorry to crack you the bad news but every employee who works for someone else, gets what he or she deserves. Not a penny more or less. If you are good at your job, money will come to you naturally. If you suck at it, again, not my problem.
I mean, c'mon. There are apple fanboys but their numbers are not enough to catapult this idiot into anything or anyone who would have a say-so about how the country is administered or how the economy runs. He has a grandeur vision of himself. May be has one of those funny mirrors in his office making him look like much bigger than he is and he started believing it.
And rightfully so. Previous administrations have heard a lot from the special interests of businesses before and acted accordingly. This administration is different and it is about damn time.
Seriously, can I be hired in place of one of those who left, probably the best job of their lives ? Over what ? A moronic principle. There is no company who can say they will not work with/for the government and/or military. Otherwise how will the government will spend the money, supposedly paid to $725 for single hammer or $2200 worth of toilet seats ? C'mon people. Be reasonable. Really,. if someone from google is looking for a replacement for one of their childish employees who left, I am here to replace. Just drop a response.
Will it say the folksy names for the landmarks. As an 8 years long Atlanta GA dweller, I'd like to hear google maps utter the words "Turn right at the Big Chicken on to Cobb Parkway", as I was told many, many times by the old timers, when I lived there. I did not notice that it was a KFC location, for a long long time.
While you are riding on your high horses, declaring Google should not be evil, China's and North Korea's and god only knows however many other banana republics are plotting their ways to annihilate the US. If a private company efforts, like Google, is going to help US eliminate these threats, your, I don't give a rat's ass what your moronic brains think. If you don't want to work for Google, I am sure Facebook or Microsoft will be waiting for you with open arms. Oh, hold on, neither of those would probably fit your ideals as well. May be you should go found a start up and see how the real world operates.
Really ? They call him a "Professional" ? On what basis ? Professionals do not scream at other people and use profanity, let alone to their bosses. And when professionals understand that their services are not wanted, they just leave quietly unless their opinions are explicitly wanted, at which point they can criticize their superiors skills or lack there of, using a proper language. Trashing an ex-employer's equipment is childish at best. Far from being a professional. Regarless how bad your management may be. Definitely in the list of "Absolute no-no's" of a professional.
Yet their payroll in India is a quarter of that of the US employees. Yee-haw.... More money for IBM. Lay off those US based moochers :) you can do it ! On the more serious side where or when this will end ?
At the beginning there was HTML. It was easily accessible for anyone with the simplest of text editors like notepad.exe on windows. Since anyone could put a few lines of HTML code and publish it, almost everyone, and their mother, did... I can still remember the horrendous hot pink background home pages some people created. Or even worse, flashing red marquees, or animated GIFs. Gawd.. more I think, more I get nauseated. What is different today ? Well everyone, and again, their mother, have a smartphone with camera which can shoot video. And sites like YouTube or Vimeo or many other similar sites, provide a platform to publish these videos for free. And everyone thinks that, taking a picture of their dog pooping, is so interesting for the rest of us and I should watch this drivel repeatedly. There is gluttony of resources and people with too much free time in their hands, with the idea of striking it rich like pewdiepie or Justin friggen Bieber. What could go wrong ? And yet we are here...
Glacier storage was $10/TB/mo if I am not mistaken. For a large size data storage, amazon might be too costly IMHO.
Simple economic principle. If two entities are doing the same exact thing with the same quality, use the one which costs you less. Automation is going cheaper and more accurate everyday, while the states like mine, i.e. California, think that flipping burgers at MickeyD's should be treated as careers and raise the pay rates for jobs, which were supposed to be summer jobs for kids on vacation. If you are 30 and working at a burger joint for minimum wage, regardless how good that minimum wage rate is, you need to re-evaluate your life and see how you can improve yourself, instead of relying on others to foot the bill for your poor choices. Sorry for you, but it is the truth.
Zuck, should take his brilliant ideas of his and put it somewhere they will see no daylight. In this country, thanks to the legislation liberal governments passed, we have the do-nothing-collect-paycheck crowd already. We need to find a way to convert those good-for-nothing people into a semi-productive members of society, not to increase the numbers of them. But of course, universal income receiving lazy-ass mo-fo's will spend their every waking moments on social networking sites, mainly facebook. Of course this will butter the bread, zuck has been holding and feeling there is no more butter coming. He needs more people with a lot of time in their hands and nothing else to do in life. What is better than universal income receiving lazy people ? Absolutely nothing. Self serving anyone ?
If a company looks at a non-working backups as a minor inconvenience, I think the CTO's ass should be on the firing line before this poor guy's. Yes, wat he did is inexcusable and in some cases, firing might be justifiable (as in, a junior developer on his first day in his/her job doing what on a production database case) but if someone assigned him/her to perform anything on the company-critical data, that person should be the one getting fired, not this guy's. I am a 20+ year experienced sysadmin and not too long time ago, when I started at a new position, I was not able to touch any system other than few development machines for 2+ months of my start date and I know/knew my shit. This company management shows their incompetency in more ways than one. Yet they are making this person the scapegoat. Good riddance to them, as their days are numbered.
All religious communities are socialist economies by their nature. All religions dictate that it is a sin that you go to bed with a full tummy while your neighbor is starving. You have to share. It has different names in all religions but in Islam, it is known as Fitrah (or something sounding very similar to this) and if you are above average wealth, you have to donate 1/40th of all your worldly possession to the mosque and the honest people (of my ass if you ask me) like mullah and imam's, will distribute these donations to the needy. Iran runs with sharia laws. So, a basic income without the government mandate is a very plausible set up for their citizens. For them, UBI is just a name change and provider change for the income. Here in the US, I see ton of welfare mothers with 3-4 children in their tow, shopping at the supermarket and buying the most expensive cut of meat and mist expensive cheese they can get their hands on. Of course, their off the book boyfriend is providing them the necessities and the welfare money is their ticket to luxury items. Giving them UBI may just take the burden of giving birth, unless of course they can double dip. US has a chronically lazy segment of population and unless all free money sources dry out, you can not expect these lazy mofo's to put in a hard day's work.UB I might be okay in already socialist economies, until they can not tax actually working people any more. By that time, if robots are doing all the work, nobody will want to work. If I work and get the same money as the UBI recipient, why should I bust my ass ? When we reach the singularity, we can discuss UBI again, but until than it is a losing bet for the working population. Because there always will be some smartass who thinks he/she can game the system.
I didn't know that, as US of A, we have a responsibility to keep the India's tech sector afloat, by allowing them to dump their tech workforce as a cheap replacement for American workers. What a shocker. These guys are far worse than the entitled minded millennial generation.As far as I am concerned, they can pack their bags and go home and stew in their own pot. For the past 20 years, US has given too much leeway to these clowns. Time to reclaim it back.
And I bet you, none of those qualifications are actually needed for the position of service desk representative they placed the H-1B servant into
But, what are they willing to pay for those 10K workers ? The same amount of poverty level wages they pay to their indentured servants or actual American standard wages. If it is the former, no one will show up and they will say, "we offered but no one took the jobs" and give themselves a public show of legitimacy; If they go with the latter approach, they will piss off their workforce on H-1B visa, as there will be a huge pay gap between two groups. Doesn't sound sincere to me.
>> How about "enabling American workers to fill highly qualified positions"?
Well, if you can find Americans to fill those positions, more power to you and you should give preference to hire them as you can avoid the cost of processing an H-1B visa, let alone avoiding visa processing period. But if you are not finding the person in the US, you can not create one out of the thin air. Experience comes with hard work and doing your time on any given subject. If the remaining 10 candidates who can do this job, don;t want to work at this position, what should the employer do ? Let it go unfilled ? Of course not.
Having said that, making a position look like it requires million different skills and when you hire a person for that position, making this person to fill a help desk seat is not uncommon. So, I am not raising my hopes too high on this statement.
The most effective way to prevent these indian abusers of H-1B visa would be to issue the visa to the individual and eliminate his or her indentured servant status. Let's see, which one of those companies would shell out $2000+attorney fees for someone who can jump ship 2 days after starting to work for them making peanuts money compared to the rest of his/her peers.
Well, I am in my 50's and can relate to the OP. I have degrees in EE and I started working in electronics production line as a test engineer and got involved in computer aided testing, because I took a couple of Fortran IV classes in college. Nobody told me how this is done. They handed me an half-assed HP instrumentation manual and a HP Rocky Mountain Basic users manual and said, go figure it out. Took me a while but I did it and liked it so much, 7 years later I was leaving electronics and converting into a full time IT role. But, while I was a kid, or I was in school, I mean from elementary to college, I was taught to never give up, until you find the solution to your problem. Nowadays, I am noticing, fresh grads don't come with that mind set. For instance, we were interviewing for a sysadmin position and I asked, "All of a sudden you noticed that your connection to the network has dropped. What would you do ?" Answer was very disconcerting: "I call help desk and log a ticket to get it fixed. You have a help desk for this. Right ?". I would have expected an answer like, I would check my network settings and see if anything has changed, then ask people near me, if they are experiencing similar issues. I mean basic steps of troubleshooting, but no, heeeeelllll no. Why bother while you can offload that to someone else ? Then they have the audacity to cry then do not get paid as their friends in this and that company. Maybe, just may be if they could be a little more into what the position entails, they might get ahead faster. But with that "it is not my job" attitude, it is very hard to respect these people. And when OP says generic engineers, I see past the derogatory meaning that most people seem to be stuck on. He means, engineers who are stuck in their line of specialization and don't want to look outside for other, relevant things. In my opinion, teaching this type of person, something new, is damn near impossible. The only way is to hire engineers with open minds. They will end up learning these tools on their own.
If one's duties can be performed by someone on the other end of the planet for a fraction of the cost, those American-Made values will soon be replaced by another Value, called profits. So the job security aspect of your mid-west living is just a pipe dream. It may buy you another 2-3 years if you are lucky but after that, those people will also need to compete with the same people, who are getting their IT done at a much cheaper cost. It is a lose-lose deal. There is no winner in this scheme who is an American worker, living in the US, needing higher than world average compensation, because, those $4K/mo mortgages do not adjust due to your job being outsourced. If all my creditors and suppliers (as in food, cleaning, utilities etc) were willing take 25% of what they are getting from me now, I'd be happy to work for 25% of what I am making right now. Is that gona happen ? Fuck NO ! So, why would I lay down and take this bullshit as it comes, as some obviously foreign people are suggesting smugly ? What I say to them, go to your hell hole of a country and stew in your own dirt instead of spending big words like globalism.