You Can't Apply If You Don't Know About The Job
Why do they need a lawyers to help them do this? The Admin at one company where I worked was pretty good at placing obscure ads (in the newspaper in an internet age) all by herself.
People used to be concerned about outsourcing to India and China ... and every company I've worked for since 1999 has done that. At my current place, not only do we have an offshore team, most Americans there feel like they are "offshore" right here in Silicon Valley.
A friend, who has been in the industry since the early 80s, in addition to being a software developer, has been reduced to being the liaison from her team to the teams in both India and China - only to be caught in the middle of those two teams battling it out for the "best" of the work that is being shipped overseas. She and a white guy are the only two Americans on her team her day is split between a 4 hour morning shift and a 4 hour shift after dinner ... so she can be available to the teams on the other side of the globe (why the "foreigners" cannot even talk to their "own folks" is beyond her - and me).
So, while the majority of Americans are stressing about illegal Mexicans, knowing good and well that most of them don't even know a single Mexican personally and wouldn't know an illegal Mexican from a Mexican American citizen if one slapped them in the face, I sit at work every single day and listen to the buzz of languages I cannot understand. There is no drive for everyone to speak English in the workplace and with homogeneous teams that aren't American, they don't have to ... which means that when I interact with them, their English is barely understandable because they do not practice it on a regular basis.
Corporations claim that the quality is better when they hire high tech workers from other countries but I beg to differ. Most of the places I've worked since this trend began focus on getting the product out - and not the quality of the output. They treat the people/code like factory workers/output. When you have software that cannot even generate error messages that are free of grammar/spelling errors and broken English, you have crap! I'm in Technical Support (supporting technical people) and I've gone from fielding software bugs that used to be complicated and hard to find to a multitude of "ooops" problems and just plain sloppiness.
Still, I'm not really complaining even though I've had three companies go bust on me in the past 6 years (and was out of work for a year during 2002-2003). I guess still have a job because I can speak and write good English in a country where most Americans go ballistic if they cannot understand someone on the phone who is supposed to be there to help.
The bottom line about is that Corporations are lying about not having Americans to do the work at the low end of the scale and at the high end of the scale. Once these imported workers outnumber Americans in these fields and companies and control who gets interviewed, hired and promoted (as is the case where I work now), no American (no matter how educated they are) will get hired as they won't speak the language of the majority - which isn't English.
A disturbing video… Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workersI think that is how the VP of Engineering was able to hire two "friends" from Bulgaria to do fairly simple software development work ... not to mention that a good chunk of his staff was from India. That was 1999-2000. Today I work at a software company where the Engineering staff is almost entirely East Indian or Chinese. In fact, the Chinese may have a leg up on the Indians. There is not a single American or Indian on the QA team and certain development teams are solidly Chinese.
(video here)
People used to be concerned about outsourcing to India and China ... and every company I've worked for since 1999 has done that. At my current place, not only do we have an offshore team, most Americans there feel like they are "offshore" right here in Silicon Valley.
A friend, who has been in the industry since the early 80s, in addition to being a software developer, has been reduced to being the liaison from her team to the teams in both India and China - only to be caught in the middle of those two teams battling it out for the "best" of the work that is being shipped overseas. She and a white guy are the only two Americans on her team her day is split between a 4 hour morning shift and a 4 hour shift after dinner ... so she can be available to the teams on the other side of the globe (why the "foreigners" cannot even talk to their "own folks" is beyond her - and me).
So, while the majority of Americans are stressing about illegal Mexicans, knowing good and well that most of them don't even know a single Mexican personally and wouldn't know an illegal Mexican from a Mexican American citizen if one slapped them in the face, I sit at work every single day and listen to the buzz of languages I cannot understand. There is no drive for everyone to speak English in the workplace and with homogeneous teams that aren't American, they don't have to ... which means that when I interact with them, their English is barely understandable because they do not practice it on a regular basis.
Corporations claim that the quality is better when they hire high tech workers from other countries but I beg to differ. Most of the places I've worked since this trend began focus on getting the product out - and not the quality of the output. They treat the people/code like factory workers/output. When you have software that cannot even generate error messages that are free of grammar/spelling errors and broken English, you have crap! I'm in Technical Support (supporting technical people) and I've gone from fielding software bugs that used to be complicated and hard to find to a multitude of "ooops" problems and just plain sloppiness.
Still, I'm not really complaining even though I've had three companies go bust on me in the past 6 years (and was out of work for a year during 2002-2003). I guess still have a job because I can speak and write good English in a country where most Americans go ballistic if they cannot understand someone on the phone who is supposed to be there to help.
The bottom line about is that Corporations are lying about not having Americans to do the work at the low end of the scale and at the high end of the scale. Once these imported workers outnumber Americans in these fields and companies and control who gets interviewed, hired and promoted (as is the case where I work now), no American (no matter how educated they are) will get hired as they won't speak the language of the majority - which isn't English.
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