Re: The globalization of COMMON, or is this the right direction? -- MIDRANGE-JOBS

Unfortunately this is a widespread norm. I have lost count of how many middle
eastern headhunters call me on positions they want filled and you go to their
website most cases they all sponsor. Do a search on H1 L1 visa advocating
attorneys and you will find pages of hits, but none for the US citizens whose
jobs were taken. I had that happen on my very first position. This was just
before 9/11! Now all I get is short contracts and out of state offers. If I
could just share an email sent to me.

THREE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:
1. COWS
2. THE CONSTITUTION
3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government
can track a cow born in
Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the
state of Washington? And
they tracked her calves to their stalls, but they are unable to locate 11
million illegal aliens wandering
around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why
don't we just give them
ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200
years and we're not using it
anymore.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in
a courthouse...You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not
Commit Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers,
judges and politicians -- it creates a hostile work environment!

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Steve,

I think you are right on. I have not been to Common for many years, and feel
that it has turned into a politcal arena, and not the technology benfit it was
once.

Ric Weide
email: rcweide@xxxxxxx<mailto:rcweide@xxxxxxx>
Tel: (678) 575-2620

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Sent: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:10:23 -0500
Subject: The globalization of COMMON, or is this the right direction?

All -

I have not been to a COMMON conference in quite a while, but I had heard that
the next conference is being held in Miami. As I was looking at COMMON's web
site yesterday, I happened to click on the link that shows the candidates in
the
next board of directors election (
http://www.common.org/about/candidates.html<http://www.common.org/about/candidates.html>

As I read the candidate's statements, I noticed that one candidate (Rajan
Narayanan) is a senior VP for a company named Mindtree that promotes the
outsourcing of work to India (
http://www.common.org/about/rajan.html<http://www.common.org/about/rajan.html>
).
That, of course, immediately pushed one of my hot buttons. This candidate
apparently earns his salary by taking jobs from North Americans and giving
them
to workers in India. If this is not the case, I would surely like to see his
employee list!

In fact, a quick visit to his employer's web page to view current job
openings (
http://www.mindtree.com/crs/opngs.php<http://www.mindtree.com/crs/opngs.php>
) confirmed what I already suspected -
that Mindtree probably does NOT hire technical people in the United States!
Of
73 positions being advertised, only ONE is in the USA - and it is for a
"Manager
of Business Development" in Schaumburg, Illinois.

It's no secret to anyone who subscribes to midrange-L or midrange-jobs how I
feel about outsourcing American jobs overseas. Does anyone see anything wrong
with the message that COMMON seems to be sending with this nomination?

COMMON purports to be an education provider, and it has programs designed to
work with schools to bring young programmers into the midrange community. It
even has a group calling itself the YIPS (Young iSeries Professionals).
Ostensibly, this education is intended to benefit the iSeries community in
North
America. The last time I checked, COMMON was still based in Chicago,
Illinois,
and not in Bangalore, India.

I have heard that not many people vote for the board candidates because only
those with individual memberships and the member representatives for a
company
are entitled to vote. It is my understanding that with people moving around
in
the industry and within their companies, COMMON has had trouble figuring out
exactly who the member reps actually are.

If I am allowed a little conjecture here, a candidate with a large IT labor
force could actually "buy" a seat on COMMON's board by telling his employees
to
purchase individual memberships and that the company would provide
reimbursement. Also, the prospect that COMMON's membership list could then be
available to an outsourcing firm really bothers me.

I am planning to buy a membership so that I can stand up for what I believe.
If
you also see a problem with COMMON's direction, I urge you to join COMMON and
vote too.

By the way...I'm sure that Rajan appreciates IBM for their ongoing investment
in
India. See
http://news.com.com/IBM+to+pour+6+billion+into+India/2100-1014_3-6080346.html?tag=st.ref.goo<http://news.com.com/IBM+to+pour+6+billion+into+India/2100-1014_3-6080346.html?tag=st.ref.goo>

or http://tinyurl.com/eengr<http://tinyurl.com/eengr>

On that note, I'm wondering why IBM doens't just pull up and move their
headquarters to India! They could get rid of hundreds (or thousands) of
overpaid executives in Armonk and Rochester and replace them with far cheaper
workers in Bangalore...

Thanks for your time,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so
undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. - Mark
Twain
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