🚀 go-pugleaf

you guys weren't around when MY job got sent to Mexico. 

Screw you, the Indians and your bosses.

Edi stercas et mori.


On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 09:06:30 -0500, "TraceyLevin,,"
<tracey12@swbell.net> wrote:

>Charles Packer wrote:
>> 
>> In article <36166af6.270677307@news.dgsys.com>, Jeff Kirk wrote:
>> >       Recently it has been reported that the Congress and Senate are
>> >currently reviewing a bill to increase the number of immigrant workers
>> >into the U.S. in an effort to lessen the burden on the computer
>> >industry, due to a lack of qualified professionals in that arena.
>> 
>> I'm a middle-aged computer programmer who changed jobs recently
>> after 14 years with my previous employer. I've observed that,
>> yes, employers want younger, cheaper talent. (But sometimes they
>> end up hiring two young programmers to do the job that one
>> experienced programmer could do.) But unionizing isn't the
>> answer. Unions are for industries where wages truly are low,
>> as in factories, or where the wages are high but the job is
>> highly regimented, as with airline pilots.
>
>  I think the solution may be somewhat different.  
>  First, we who are computer literate should be in constant contact
>  with our elected officials.  We need to be well known around their 
>  office for being very nice, and very concerned about legislatoin.
>
>  Next, when IBM, or any other company begins to hire imported, low wage
>programmers, etc., we need to make it known around the net that IBM is
>undermining Americans by hiring from outside the country when there are
>many here who can do the job.
> 
>  Maybe too it is time for some public protesting in front of the home
>offices of these companies.  The small savings they achieve by hiring
>foreigners could easily be offset by a large amount of negative press!
>
>  We need to impress the public with this information, and explain how
>UNCONCERNED these companies are about showing support for American
>employes who can do the work they need to have done.
>
>  But, if we sit on the sidelines and never protest about actions like
>these, the multinational, unpatriotic companies will always avoid
>showing any responsibility to American society from which most of these
>companies originated.