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President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.
Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.
"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:24PM
I know of one person who had to train an off-shore replacement. He was a manager, forget where, and had to spend two months in Mumbai training the guy. They gave him a decent severance package which amounted to a years salary on top of paying for all of his travel expenses. It was that or take a hike. Worst part was he was 60 and already nearing retirement. He was stocking shelves at the local supermarket for another year until he found another job willing to hire someone at his age. The worst part was even though he held a masters in systems engineering, he hadn't touched a line of code since 1988 which was COBOL. So he couldn't find a tech job.
If Trump goes after immigrants, he better also go after off-shoring/outsourcing. I remember the peak of the internet bubble in the late 90's/early 00's and visiting PC expo. At it's peak you got to see tons of cool shit including the 1GHz Alpha CPU running circles around PIII's/Xeons and Athlons. Few years later the show was cut in half after the crash and a major section was a centerpiece which was never there before: "outsource world". WTF was my reaction. The beginning of the end so to speak.
And side note: Interesting how you mentioned the different indian, dot vs feather. Remember a cousin coming in from Soiux falls SD talking about Indians being drunks and I said they all own 7-11's, dunkin doughnuts and drive cabs in NYC to which he replied "You have that many indians in new york!" And I said "yea, there's tons of them in my neighborhood and further down". Didn't realize until a few minutes later that he was talking about the feather kind lol. Only ever see them out on long island reservations with their back room casinos and cheap cigarettes, 200 for $7. Though, you can barely smoke those fuckin things.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:50PM
I'm a feather not dot Indian and I'm from OK where most everyone has some Indian blood in them, so I'm just used to differentiating online by now.
Pro-tip: If you want cheap, decent smokes: roll your own. You can get a month's worth of tobacco for like $15 and rolling papers for a buck or two per hundred pack. Plus you get the added health benefit of having pretty much none of the wicked-nasty shit they put in pre-built smokes.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:36PM
And this is why we need a new widely understood one-word derogatory for dot-head cow-kissers.
It is a small part of what makes outsourcing to India such a great scam. The English language itself virtually prohibits referring to them directly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM
And this is why we need a new widely understood one-word derogatory for dot-head cow-kissers.
We already do. It's "Okies", as in "from Miscoogie, USA". Your lack of redneck literacy is noted.