If your boss said, "We need to improve our profits, and to do so, we're
going to revise the pay scale for your job description down by 50%", how
long would you stick around?
That's what is being done all over the place, even by Disney. Sysco Foods in
Houston outsourced to Infosys (there's that name again). Roughly 100
Americans went out the door. When Infosys realized their "expert" H1-B
talent couldn't cut the mustard, they started shopping for Americans. The
problem is that they were offering $20 per hour.
Paul Nelson
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Office 409-267-4027
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From: Midrange-NonTech [mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 7:43 AM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: The science is settled
The problem I noticed with that study is that they said "increase the
firm's profits" as if that was a bad thing.
Let's face it, there should be nothing wrong with a firm making a profit.
Early labor leader Samuel Gompers stated: "The worst crime against
working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers#Quotes
I can understand the concern, however, that a profitable company should
protect the labor of the local workforce.
A totally different way of looking at this study is to once again take
that small snippet and have management say "hey, here's another study
which says that using H1B workers will increase the firm's profits. Maybe
we should do that." :-)
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
