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Richard Lamb wrote:

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Its kind of like an Indian guy walks into your office with a pink slip
while you are writing code and says "Here, the boss told me to give
this to you....He layed you off...Now before you leave, show me how to
work this thing."

I don't hate Indians, just the corporations and laws that make it
almost mandatory that they are brought here.

Dennis H.



Did all this come about because of a tax break for businesses that moved
jobs off shore?

Offshoring is a different problem than H-1B and L-1 visas. Offshoring
mostly affects manufacturing and other, non-computer service jobs.
However, there are prime examples of where whole computer departments
are in india. Bank of America is a good example of a US company with
there entire computer department in india. In other words, India
knows all about your finances if you have an account with BOA.

In most cases, its far cheaper to rent an indian from TATA and have
the work done here. Most of the time, mamagers like to look over
programmer's shoulders and they can't do that when the programmer is
in india and the manager is in Dallas. This is why H-1B's and L-1
visas are more of a threat to computer people than offshoring.

The problem is that the honest corporations are forced to follow suit
because they can't compete with the crooked corporations.

Dennis H.

Dennis Hawkins
n4mwd AT amsat DOT org (humans know what to do)

"A RECESSION is when you know somebody who is out of work.
A DEPRESSION is when YOU are out of work.
A RECOVERY is when all the H-1B's are out of work."

To find out what an H-1B is and how Congress is using
them to put Americans out of work, visit the following
web site and click on the "Exporting America" CNN news
video: http://zazona.com/ShameH1B/MediaClips.htm


Funny you mentioned Bank of America.
I've been closing down my BoA accounts.
All credit cards are paid off and I'm closing out once
my pension check starts showing up in my credit union account.

It's not a political move, or in reponse to the Indian situation.

It's just because their services have become so expensive.

Hmmm - go figure. Move the jobs out to save costs and raise
prices for the customers.

Richard