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Southern California Edison (SCE) was known for good pay and benefits before it began laying off IT workers and replacing them with H-1B visa holders. Today, SCE is the latest Exhibit A in Congress of a company whose IT workers are displaced through the use of the H-1B visa.
"They are bringing in people with a couple of years' experience to replace us and then we have to train them," said one longtime IT worker. "It's demoralizing and in a way I kind of felt betrayed by the company. Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.
SCE, Southern California's largest utility, has confirmed the layoffs and the hiring of Infosys, based in Bangalore, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai. They are two of the largest users of H-1B visas.
(Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday February 15 2015, @07:16PM
There's nothing we can do, man. Only bend over and wait for the invisible hand of God Market to fist fuck us. Because, you know, economy is not made by people. It's the other way around.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 15 2015, @07:42PM
There's nothing we can do, man. Only bend over and wait for the invisible hand of God Market to fist fuck us. Because, you know, economy is not made by people. It's the other way around.
Again, do you have a better idea than being "fist fucked" by the "invisible hand"? My view is that market economies are the primary economic tool for making the wonderful societies we have.
I tire of the theatrics. Put up or shut up.
(Score: 2) by hoochiecoochieman on Sunday February 15 2015, @11:09PM
You shut up, you disrespectful asshole.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 15 2015, @11:11PM