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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 11 2015, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-senator-stays-bought dept.

From an article in Computerworld:

Ten U.S. senators, representing the political spectrum, are seeking a federal investigation into displacement of IT workers by H-1B-using contractors.

They are asking the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Labor Department to investigate the use of the H-1B program "to replace large numbers of American workers" at Southern California Edison (SCE) and other employers.

Rather than all of us just griping on Soylent and 'that other site' about H-1B tech workers flooding in while there are plenty of Americans looking for work, these IT workers had a union, and got the attention of 10 senators to look into this issue. Southern California Edison laid off a bunch of American IT workers to replace them with H-1B Indians, and their union (since they are a utility, they happened to have had one), came to the rescue with a huge media campaign and now investigations by US Senators.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:17PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:17PM (#169108) Journal

    This isn't paid writing so spelling etc quality is optimized accordingly.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:30PM (#169138)

    This isn't paid writing so spelling etc quality is optimized accordingly.

    Well, OK, but what about punctuation? Are you ever going to "optimize" that?

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Sunday April 12 2015, @02:19AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Sunday April 12 2015, @02:19AM (#169203) Journal

    The vast majority of professional/serious writers I've been aware of (via blogs, interviews in Writer's Digest, etc.) only lightly edit unpaid recreational work like comments, but include spell-checking as part of it. Compared to producing multiple drafts of intense editing to make their paid/important work the best they can manage, clicking a little wavy line away is nothing.

    I can't recall who said it, but my stance on using correct capitals, fixing basic errors, etc. is best summed up as (said conversationally, not actually aimed at you): if you don't feel what you have to say is important enough to make that small an effort, what makes you think it's important enough for others to take the time to read it? With expletives added as needed, of course. ;-)

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @04:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @04:08AM (#169235)

      That's a non sequitur. I've read plenty of things with poor spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization that were nonetheless very informative. The ad hominems usually come from people who can't comprehend basic logic, or comprehend the fact that they are being extremely shallow.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:54PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:54PM (#169307) Journal

      If bad writing were the problem. The person would have pointed out the errors explicitly so that one can learn.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:13PM (#169442)

      I can't recall who said it, but my stance on using correct capitals, fixing basic errors, etc. is best summed up as (said conversationally, not actually aimed at you): if you don't feel what you have to say is important enough to make that small an effort, what makes you think it's important enough for others to take the time to read it.

      Because no amount of effort is free. I put all my effort into the ideas.
      Would you prefer worse logic, less research and a more shallow topical understanding in exchange for better capitalization?
      I don't.

      Human language is explicitly redundant so that ideas can be communicated despite minor errors in transmission like spelling errors.

  • (Score: 2) by fadrian on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:48PM

    by fadrian (3194) on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:48PM (#169303) Homepage

    spelling etc quality is optimized accordingly.

    Seems like the opposite to me, as writing has rules so as to be understood.

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    That is all.
  • (Score: 1) by deadstick on Saturday April 25 2015, @07:46PM

    by deadstick (5110) on Saturday April 25 2015, @07:46PM (#175141)

    Guess I'm a sucker...I spell correctly for free.