It also helps to fire the bottom 10% of the workforce each year. The routine churn of hiring and firing will help disguise any large replacement of American employees with H1B workers.
That almost happened to me last year when I was looking for a job. I was scheduled for an interview with the India-based Infosys (one of the companies that provided workers to Disney). If I haven't got hired elsewhere, I would be a "diversity hire" to prove that they weren't 100% Indian workers in the U.S.
This reminds me of an incident at a company I worked at where the new vice president read out an email from HR that EVERYONE was getting stock options. Great news, everyone was happy. Except the HR person did a face palm. After the VP read the last line that "this applies only to managers", he was surprised to find everyone pissed off. The company gave everyone 180 options that vested over five years. It didn't help that the stock price went for $20 to $0.02 per share after the dot com bust.
I had a Radeon 7960 video card when I got ID Software's "Rage" for $2.50 during a Steam Black Friday sale a few years ago. The 7960 exceeded the minimum hardware specs for this game. The moment gameplay came up it chugged at 2FPS. New drivers, old drivers, hacked drivers. Nothing could make that game run. I recently got a Nvidia 720 video card and the game ran fine. Go figure.
I worked for three IT jobs in 2011. A Monday through Friday PC refresh job at one Fortune 500 company, a weekend job as a PC disconnect/reconnect technician for a moving company with multiple Fortune 500 clients, and a month-long job at a Fortune 500 data center when the other two jobs went on break for the holidays. I typically worked 12 days straight before I got day off.
I can power my ancient Sony Walkman with the black spores from inside my bathroom.
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Lard is popular with my tea party relatives in Idaho. The men would take a bucket of lard to a tree out back, lard up a tight knot hole, drop their pants and have at it. Unless, of course, there's a bee hive inside the tree. Bees don't like lard and come coming into the hive. Little pricks don't stand a chance.
Office Work is 2/3rds politics, 1/3 actual work(and I'm not so sure about the "actual work").
As an IT contractor for the last ten years, I don't get involve with the office politics as that is the fastest way to the unemployment line. Most employers have the good sense not to involve contractors into their office politics. If they do, it's time to look for another job.
Meh. I had a government background check for my current IT job. The investigator and I spent four hours for a two-hour interview discussing every contracting job that I ever had in the last seven years. The security wonks find it strange that a person might actually have more than one employer at a time. We never discussed my Internet activities. I'm sure the Chinese will find my case file interesting.
I've know quite a few Christians who consider themselves as God's gift to the world. I'm sure the suicide bombers in the Middle East feel the same way.
I did a PC refresh project at a hospital a few years ago that replaced older Win XP PCs with newer Windows 7 PCs that had higher hardware specs. That was the first step in rolling a virtual desktop solution where users log into the network and download their desktop to the local PC. It might be easier to roll out Windows 10 in a virtual desktop environment.
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If H1-Bs existed in the 50s and 60s they would have used them just as much as they try to today.
Like the bracero program for Mexican workers?
A small price to pay for the goodwill from this "Hey, maybe Disney is less of a dick" headlines.
FTFY
It also helps to fire the bottom 10% of the workforce each year. The routine churn of hiring and firing will help disguise any large replacement of American employees with H1B workers.
That almost happened to me last year when I was looking for a job. I was scheduled for an interview with the India-based Infosys (one of the companies that provided workers to Disney). If I haven't got hired elsewhere, I would be a "diversity hire" to prove that they weren't 100% Indian workers in the U.S.
Most companies that hires H1B workers usually lay off American workers at the front door while bringing in H1B workers through the back door.
This reminds me of an incident at a company I worked at where the new vice president read out an email from HR that EVERYONE was getting stock options. Great news, everyone was happy. Except the HR person did a face palm. After the VP read the last line that "this applies only to managers", he was surprised to find everyone pissed off. The company gave everyone 180 options that vested over five years. It didn't help that the stock price went for $20 to $0.02 per share after the dot com bust.
I had a Radeon 7960 video card when I got ID Software's "Rage" for $2.50 during a Steam Black Friday sale a few years ago. The 7960 exceeded the minimum hardware specs for this game. The moment gameplay came up it chugged at 2FPS. New drivers, old drivers, hacked drivers. Nothing could make that game run. I recently got a Nvidia 720 video card and the game ran fine. Go figure.
I worked for three IT jobs in 2011. A Monday through Friday PC refresh job at one Fortune 500 company, a weekend job as a PC disconnect/reconnect technician for a moving company with multiple Fortune 500 clients, and a month-long job at a Fortune 500 data center when the other two jobs went on break for the holidays. I typically worked 12 days straight before I got day off.
Oracle announced today the methane-powered FART processor that will out gas any Intel processor.
I can power my ancient Sony Walkman with the black spores from inside my bathroom.
I never AC. I stand behind opinions. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Besides, I was born in California.
Lard is popular with my tea party relatives in Idaho. The men would take a bucket of lard to a tree out back, lard up a tight knot hole, drop their pants and have at it. Unless, of course, there's a bee hive inside the tree. Bees don't like lard and come coming into the hive. Little pricks don't stand a chance.
My father worked for three generations of owners in 50 years before he retired for good on his gold-plated pension. Those days are long gone.
Office Work is 2/3rds politics, 1/3 actual work(and I'm not so sure about the "actual work").
As an IT contractor for the last ten years, I don't get involve with the office politics as that is the fastest way to the unemployment line. Most employers have the good sense not to involve contractors into their office politics. If they do, it's time to look for another job.
Please bring back the Microsoft Sidewinder, as that was the best game controller ever made.
Especially in a colorless, squeaky voice.
Especially if the station wagon gone to plaid.
Meh. I had a government background check for my current IT job. The investigator and I spent four hours for a two-hour interview discussing every contracting job that I ever had in the last seven years. The security wonks find it strange that a person might actually have more than one employer at a time. We never discussed my Internet activities. I'm sure the Chinese will find my case file interesting.
I've know quite a few Christians who consider themselves as God's gift to the world. I'm sure the suicide bombers in the Middle East feel the same way.
If you ask a typical Republican if they think THE ARNOLD is a real Republican, most would say no and not listen to him.
I did a PC refresh project at a hospital a few years ago that replaced older Win XP PCs with newer Windows 7 PCs that had higher hardware specs. That was the first step in rolling a virtual desktop solution where users log into the network and download their desktop to the local PC. It might be easier to roll out Windows 10 in a virtual desktop environment.
If not, there will be a Windows emulator to play all your classic Windows games like Mine Sweeper and Solitaire.
Busted COBOL!
FTFY
You never played any of the Deus Ex games without killing anyone all the way through?
Was the ID Tech 6 engine completed before Carmack left for Oculus?