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Disney, Southern California Edison and most recently Fossil Group have together fired hundreds of American tech workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements, many of whom were flown in specifically to take their job.

“You had me here one day, and the next day you had an Indian worker at a lower skill level sitting at my desk,” one of the hundreds of tech workers who Disney recently fired told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

He and hundreds of his fellow “Cast Members” were informed last October they were being replaced by a foreign work force, and they could either stick around for 90 days and train their replacements — with a good attitude — or leave immediately and forego their severance packages.

About a month before Disney broke the news, this worker got the very highest rating you can get from management in a performance review, received a raise and was told to expect a promotion. And just a week or two before the announcement, Disney announced record-breaking profits for the company.

The office was soon flooded with the foreign workers, most of whom were fresh out of college. In the first phase, the foreign worker sat next to the American worker in “knowledge transfer sessions,” and videotaped everything they said and did, and then reviewed the tapes with the American worker to ensure accuracy.

“It’s basically a quest for cheap labor,” Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California Davis, told TheDCNF. “The abuse of H-1B pervades the entire industry. They all could find American workers if they wanted to, but they want cheap labor and they want immobile labor.”

“Its only purpose is to please the corporate interests that are very heavy campaign contributors,” he added. “That is literally the bottom line.”

DrDonkeyLove wrote:We've discussed this before and the IT knowledgeable consensus here was that it was about very specific skills that H-1B workers had that US workers lacked causing the replacement of Amurikkan IT workers with foreigners.

This feels like robber baron shit.

E2>200 wrote:When manufacturing died, we were told it was good for the workers because it pushed them to evolve into white collar and knowledge-base jobs, like tech.

Now those tech guys can evolve to the next level. Perhaps medicine or politics.

E2>200 wrote:When will B16 evolve into a low level, warehouse worker in dirty jeans?

Pinky wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:We've discussed this before and the IT knowledgeable consensus here was that it was about very specific skills that H-1B workers had that US workers lacked causing the replacement of Amurikkan IT workers with foreigners.

This feels like robber baron shit.

It should feel like members of a well-paid occupation lobbying for special protection that fucks over the rest of the country.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:We've discussed this before and the IT knowledgeable consensus here was that it was about very specific skills that H-1B workers had that US workers lacked causing the replacement of Amurikkan IT workers with foreigners.

This feels like robber baron shit. Why can't Disney train it's existing workforce?

I already hate that fucking mouse with a passion and I hate displacing American workers just as much. Prof. Matloff of USC says it's all about the $$ and hiring workers who lack the freedom to change jobs.

Am I wrong here?

From The Daily Caller. Other articles here and here

Disney, Southern California Edison and most recently Fossil Group have together fired hundreds of American tech workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements, many of whom were flown in specifically to take their job.

“You had me here one day, and the next day you had an Indian worker at a lower skill level sitting at my desk,” one of the hundreds of tech workers who Disney recently fired told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

He and hundreds of his fellow “Cast Members” were informed last October they were being replaced by a foreign work force, and they could either stick around for 90 days and train their replacements — with a good attitude — or leave immediately and forego their severance packages.

About a month before Disney broke the news, this worker got the very highest rating you can get from management in a performance review, received a raise and was told to expect a promotion. And just a week or two before the announcement, Disney announced record-breaking profits for the company.

The office was soon flooded with the foreign workers, most of whom were fresh out of college. In the first phase, the foreign worker sat next to the American worker in “knowledge transfer sessions,” and videotaped everything they said and did, and then reviewed the tapes with the American worker to ensure accuracy.

“It’s basically a quest for cheap labor,” Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California Davis, told TheDCNF. “The abuse of H-1B pervades the entire industry. They all could find American workers if they wanted to, but they want cheap labor and they want immobile labor.”

“Its only purpose is to please the corporate interests that are very heavy campaign contributors,” he added. “That is literally the bottom line.”

Pinky wrote:DDL,
If companies are going to hire foreign labor to do these jobs (and they are), would you rather the workers and their families pay taxes and buy stuff here or in whatever country they came from?

Pinky wrote:DDL,
If companies are going to hire foreign labor to do these jobs (and they are), would you rather the workers and their families pay taxes and buy stuff here or in whatever country they came from?

The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:

Pinky wrote:DDL,
If companies are going to hire foreign labor to do these jobs (and they are), would you rather the workers and their families pay taxes and buy stuff here or in whatever country they came from?

Agreed. There are so many unmeasurable and intangible reasons for having them sit here vs. over there: people who go through the H1B process crave becoming a GCH or citizen of the USA. They pay taxes, they *never* commit crime, they pay their bills, and while they keep their cultural identity, most of the smarter ones work hard at integrating with America vs. force feeding their culture and beliefs on Americans. Not saying they're perfect, but we have pockets of 'cultures' in the US that don't step up to that level at all.

From the operational side, business can better ensure the quality of work being performed with onshore vs. offshore, because when they outsource QA is absolutely an issue in IT.

The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:Is Disney sponsoring the H1's or is it a vendor? (and perhaps a third party and layers beyond that)

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:Is Disney sponsoring the H1's or is it a vendor? (and perhaps a third party and layers beyond that)

To my understanding it's a vendor of some kind and they are the controllers of the H-1B. If any of our new indentured servants get too uppity, it's back to Bangalore for you Babu.

The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:Is Disney sponsoring the H1's or is it a vendor? (and perhaps a third party and layers beyond that)

To my understanding it's a vendor of some kind and they are the controllers of the H-1B. If any of our new indentured servants get too uppity, it's back to Bangalore for you Babu.

OK, I assumed this. DDL this is absolutely nothing new.