Local American professionals are in surplus and jobless but we are paying more in visa fees instead of hiring people from here. Non-American managers prefer to hire non-American staff working here in the US, where Americans must be considered first. I cannot believe companies are unable to find people to do the job, there are folks here with even better skills.
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Nothing can be done unless enough people get affected and start to complain. As far as I can see, Dell is blip on the radar. Now, in 12 months or 24 months, if you start to see quantifiable amounts of people getting let go, maybe people will complain.
People cite the unemployment rate as being so low. FULL EMPLOYMENT they say. The official U‑3 unemployment rate is the number of unemployed people divided by the labor force (employed + unemployed). Someone is counted as unemployed only if they:
have no job
are available to work, and
have actively looked for work in the past four weeks (or are on temporary layoff).
If a person stops actively looking for work (for example, they’ve given up or aren’t reachable in the Current Population Survey), they are not counted as unemployed;they drop into “not in the labor force.”. That’s why critics say the headline number understates slack in the labor market.
what do we do people...we have to fight back somehow.
the next US scandal to be exposed. The money is probably going to India and being funnelled back to some congressman.
Some Dell offices look like you are walking into a call center in India. It's cheap labor I get it but North Americans are looking for jobs. Why hire someone that is not not even on a permanent immigration status.
Soon those fraud call centers will be here
@gg Maybe this applies to most Americans born after 1995 but not to all Americans.
That was a pet peeve from the EMC days. (I never said EMC was perfect)
One of the founders of EMC strongly identified with his Irish roots. So EMC was one of the first to take advantage of what was then called the Celtic Tiger movement. Take advantage of well-educated, English speaking, people living in what seemed to be a constantly depressed economy.
For years it seemed half of management spoke with a brogue. I remember one cut throat imported manager wouldn’t come over unless they provided a well-paying but not too demanding job to his girlfriend. Which they did.
you need the people in the us to fix the cr-p that comes from India..that's a fact.
Most Americans are just lazy. That's a fact. Also it's cheaper to hire elsewhere. Why not pay a fraction of the money to someone in India doing the same job.
@OP Because Dell is cheap a-s. They they think they can get 3 for the price of one in India or other geos. Problem is, those three can't sc--w in a lightbulb together.
We are a global company with global customers. The only point of any business is to maximize profit, nothing more. Anyone who says otherwise has never run a business.
@OP It all comes down to dollars. By the time a company firks out for wages and health insurance in the USA they're spending 3x as much as hiring someone in India.