News10 ABC—It’s nearly 8 p.m., and inside a state office building two dozen computer experts design and troubleshoot a system that will take and process millions of unemployment claims each year.
It’s a $200 million Employment Development Department project, but with the exception of two managers, everyone inside the office is from outside of the U.S. They are employed by Deloitte, a major U.S. IT company hired by the state to create and manage its Unemployment Insurance Modernization project. The mostly Indian nationals are allowed to work here under a visa program called H-1B.
Tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, Google and Facebook say they need hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to fill jobs here because American colleges can’t crank out computer science grads fast enough. In 2013, the industry lobbied Congress on the issue to the tune of almost $14 million. MORE
Two of the best IT guys I’ve every deal with had less than 3 years of college between them. They were trained by the company they worked for, for the needs of that company.
Just maybe these multi- billion dollar companies should spend some cash and train the unemployed Americans for jobs they need done, rather than import more foreign workers.
This is a product of the brain dead liberal voters. Companies are in business to make as much profit as possible. They pass legislation like this I have a hard time blaming the business that profits from it. It’s amazing they can’t see this shit coming. The most liberal guy I know works right out of that EDD office. He a little pixie that shows up at the gym. I can’t wait to ask him about this.
This stuff is gut wrenching.
Maybe if more American students didn’t piss away a perfectly good public education in the first place, they might be qualified to enter a real university and study something besides Gay Black Women’s Studies and Community Organizing.
Continued wealth redistribution by the obamarxist
There is no shortage of workers who can do the job. The problem is they don’t want to pay what they are worth. I’ve had headhunters courting me and trying to woo me by offering contract positions for 20% less than I am making now. From their pitches you can tell you think they are really doing me a favor by being so “Generous”.
Indians do the job cheap and “Good enough”. Some of them are great, others not so much. It all comes down to bucks. Less in salaries, no benefits, no Obamacare. It’s a win/win for corporations.
On a very related story, listening to the local talk radio tonight on the way home and they ran this story. California is rated fourth in the increase for the top one percent in increase in income. That average is 50%. The 99% decrease by 3%. They never said who ranked above Cali. Obomanomics looking out for the little guy
Brad, without knowing the top three my guess is, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.
I worked for some big, big banks helping them count their money, I worked closely with IT.
Prakesh, Sanjay and Rashid all lived in the same dorm like housing a block outside of The Loop. None of them were US citizens, they fcuked up just about everything they touched, but they cost pennies compared to the floor of people they replaced.
You just needed to wait longer for them to eventually get shit correct.
Get this, I was required to take a course on how to deal with these ‘new employees’ and communicate effectively with them.
Joe, my picks too. I’m wondering when the crazy train stops.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, we had better products back in the day when DEC, Wang, HP and Raytheon were running things in the 128 corridor. When the recession of 1990, that was when the Bay state started to go down the drain. That and M. Stanley Dukakis and Bob Crane ( the former Secretary of State) were creating false Social Security numbers to give to illegal Aliens.
What I want to know is why these other IT workers are so great? What education did they receive or special talents do they possess that make them so useful? One thing that News 10 should look into is whether professor Guido is working for the IT firms? His conclusions sound premade. And has anyone asked if these people are so great, are there any other countries hiring these specialists from India? Wouldn’t it make sense to hire only the best?
If our education system is not producing the people we need, then why do we spend so much on it? The students who go into and obtain a degree now have to take on the equivalent of a mortgage when getting a degree. Remember we are always told we have the best universities in the world. Why do we need to import more IT specialists?
I guess we all know why……