Author says H-1B visa is not about a lack of talent in the U.S.
By Raif Karerat
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A displaced Disney employee has published a scathing open letter on conservative media outlet Breitbart about detailing the circumstances of how he was replaced with a foreign national who came to the United States on an H-1B visa.
The employee, who signed the letter “Displaced Disney Cast Member,” held a “coveted” position as an Information Technology Engineer for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The author recalled being summoned to a conference room one day with about two dozen other people, all of whom “were all very highly regarded as extremely knowledgeable, experienced and top performers in the roles that they held.”
A stoic and grim-faced Disney Executive then informed the entire lot that they would be losing their jobs within 90 days, and that their jobs had been passed on to a foreign workforce. In the meantime, in a story echoed at companies across the U.S., they were expected to train their replacements. If they didn’t cooperate, they would be terminated immediately sans any severance pay.
“Also, if we don’t feel confident that we have captured everything that you do we can, at our discretion, keep you longer than the 90 days until we have captured everything that you do with this job,” said the Disney executive.
According to the Disney Cast Member’s account on Breitbart:
The last 30 days were the most disgraceful and demoralizing of this entire period as I had to watch a foreign worker completely take over my job. I had no work to do during the last 30 days other than watch a foreign worker completely take over everything that I did in my job. One ironic twist was that I actually received a significant pay raise during my last 30 days with the company because I had received the highest possible job rating in performance reviews. The new Disney job postings only resulted in three coworkers getting new positions from the over three hundred IT workers. I was not one of them. The last day we turned in our mobile phones, laptops, ID badges along with our dignity and we were ushered out the door as temporary foreign workers took over our jobs.
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The humiliation of accepting unemployment payments after working for the same company for over ten years in different capacities has been extremely demoralizing. I felt guilty and frequently wondered if I was being a faithful and good American by training these foreign workers to take over our American jobs just so that I could receive a small severance package and unemployment benefits for four months.
The letter’s author claims the H-1B visa is not about a lack of talent in the U.S., something the program’s proponents refute. The former Disney IT professional also questions whether the IT field holds much future for United States’ citizens or U.S. permanent residents.
“Should I continue to dodge bullets or move into an entirely new field after having been outsourced on multiple occasions by the same company and then finally physical replaced by a foreign worker? I would never recommend the IT field to my own children or anybody else that I know for that matter, due to the lack of job opportunities even for someone passionate about the IT field,” he wrote. “We now have American IT workers being displaced by both H1-B visa holders, who are physically being flown in from foreign countries, as well as the continued use of foreign remote offshore workers,” he added.
While the Displaced Disney Cast Member and most pundits and laymen alike believe U.S. workers are being replaced with low wage labor, a recent analysis found a number of companies are offering H-1B workers a higher salary compared to the prevailing one.
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It’s a shame you can’t handle sound rebuttal.
Okay you asked for it. We are now adversaries and you are going to learn something about your inability to handle the truth.
Listen, you know this is true, and you can find reference to everything I say from reputable sources. You can’t hide behind this, and I will repost this and with a reference to you removal in every place I can.
It isn’t the average H-1b salary that we need to worry about.
It’s the salary that is paid to H-1b workers by Offshore Outsourcing companies, that we need to worry about. It is at companies such as InfoSys and Tata that you see H-1b salaries take a huge drop from the average. They consistently pay 25-50% less than the average IT salary, for an H-1b workers, in any area of the country where they have their H-1b workers.
It isn’t the usage of the H-1b visa by our domestic tech originating companies that we need to worry about. Our domestic tech originating companies barely use a third of the available H-1b visas. It the is the massive usage of H-1b visas by Offshore Outsouring companies that we need to be worrying about.
Offshore Outsourcing companies use more than half of the available H-1b visas. And their business model calls for the removal of whole departments to India. Look, the H-1b visa is a U.S. Federal Government program, why on Earth should we be creating U.S. Federal Government programs that facilitate massive job destruction? No it makes no sense at all does, non-what-so-ever.
We run out of H-1b visas each year only because of the massive over-subscription of H-1b visas by Offshore Outsourcing companies. Our domestic tech originating companies barely use a third of the available H-1b visas. If Offshore Outsourcing companies were kicked out of the H-1b Federal Government program, we would never have seen a year, since inception, where we ran out of H-1b visas.
More H-1b visas will simply mean more Offshore Outsourcing of U.S. jobs to India.
And we cannot allow the Zero-IQ whining of greedy Silicon Valley tech execs, continue to damage the weak and reeling U.S. job market. The reality is that rents in Silicon Valley are north of 3500$/month, and you need a salary of 120k just to live there. Just deal with it, or push for more housing, or build it yourself, onsite, for your staff. Do something other than whine for more cheap H-1b visas, because those visas are destroying the U.S. economy.
And the Offshore Outsourcing companies don’t care about the resulting H-1b lottery (that they cause with their massive oversubscription of H-1b visas). Because if H-1b worker A or B doesn’t win an H-1b visa in the lottery, worker C will do just fine, because they are all just trainees anyway. Their sole purpose is facilitate the removal of entire departments in overnight conference calls.
The SCE and Disney cases are the tip, of the tip, of the iceberg when it comes to how the business model of the Offshore Outsourcing companies destroys jobs in the United States.
InfoSys has been shown, in public U.S. court records to have a secret internal policy to never hire an American. Why on Earth should we allow a company that has an internal policy to never hire an American, any access what-so-ever to our H-1b federal government program?
Is the reason is because InfoSys and Tata played a big role in the ACA implementation, and Obama cannot break his promises to his backers?
I got to wonder, because clearly InfoSys does not even try to hire Americans and tells its recruiters to disregard the resumes of any worker that is not of Indian decent. Clearly they are committing perjury on every H-1b application, being an H-1b dependent company, yet having an internal policy to disregard the resumes of all American applicants. This needs to be completely investigated and proscecuted to the fullest, we should never have accepted a settlement in the previous InfoSys perjury case, because this company routinely scoff at our laws, and routinely lies on Federal Government forms, and their policies, now documented in U.S. public court records show this.
Come on man, the H-1b visas made the 200+billion dollar Indian IT industry, at the expense of the half of U.S. STEM workers that are unemployed.
So let’s be clear, there were workers at Disney and SCE who were very highly skilled Computer scientists, knowing several computer languages (in one case 24 different computer languages), decades of experience in the computer industry. And that is how the Offshore Outsourcing companies operate, they exist for the sole purpose of using the H-1b visas to facilitate massive discrimination against American citizens and the removal of millions of U.S. jobs to India.
It isn’t the average H-1b salary that we need to worry about.
It is the salary that is paid to H-1b workers by Offshore Outsourcing companies, that we need to worry about. It is at companies such as InfoSys and Tata that you see H-1b salaries take a huge drop from the average. They consistently pay 25-50% less than the average IT salary, for an H-1b workers, in any area of the country where they have their H-1b workers.
It isn’t the usage of the H-1b visa by our domestic tech originating companies that we need to worry about. Our domestic tech originating companies barely use a third of the available H-1b visas. It the is the massive usage of H-1b visas by Offshore Outsouring companies that we need to be worrying about.
Offshore Outsourcing companies use more than half of the available H-1b visas. And their business model calls for the removal of whole departments to India. Look, the H-1b visa is a U.S. Federal Government program, why on Earth should we be creating U.S. Federal Government programs that facilitate massive job destruction? No it makes no sense at all does, non-what-so-ever.
We run out of H-1b visas each year only because of the massive over-subscription of H-1b visas by Offshore Outsourcing companies. Our domestic tech originating companies barely use a third of the available H-1b visas. If Offshore Outsourcing companies were kicked out of the H-1b Federal Government program, we would never have seen a year, since inception, where we ran out of H-1b visas.
More H-1b visas will simply mean more Offshore Outsourcing of U.S. jobs to India.
And we cannot allow the Zero-IQ whining of greedy Silicon Valley tech execs, continue to damage the weak and reeling U.S. job market. The reality is that rents in Silicon Valley are north of 3500$/month, and you need a salary of 120k just to live there. Just deal with it, or push for more housing, or build it yourself, onsite, for your staff. Do something other than whine for more cheap H-1b visas, because those visas are destroying the U.S. economy.
And the Offshore Outsourcing companies don’t care about the resulting H-1b lottery (that they cause with their massive oversubscription of H-1b visas). Because if H-1b worker A or B doesn’t win an H-1b visa in the lottery, worker C will do just fine, because they are all just trainees anyway. Their sole purpose is facilitate the removal of entire departments in overnight conference calls.
The SCE and Disney cases are the tip, of the tip, of the iceberg when it comes to how the business model of the Offshore Outsourcing companies destroys jobs in the United States.
InfoSys has been shown, in public U.S. court records to have a secret internal policy to never hire an American. Why on Earth should we allow a company that has an internal policy to never hire an American, any access what-so-ever to our H-1b federal government program?
Is the reason is because InfoSys and Tata played a big role in the ACA implementation, and Obama cannot break his promises to his backers?
I got to wonder, because clearly InfoSys does not even try to hire Americans and tells its recruiters to disregard the resumes of any worker that is not of Indian decent. Clearly they are committing perjury on every H-1b application, being an H-1b dependent company, yet having an internal policy to disregard the resumes of all American applicants. This needs to be completely investigated and proscecuted to the fullest, we should never have accepted a settlement in the previous InfoSys perjury case, because this company routinely scoff at our laws, and routinely lies on Federal Government forms, and their policies, now documented in U.S. public court records show this.
Come on man, the H-1b visas made the 200+billion dollar Indian IT industry, at the expense of the half of U.S. STEM workers that are unemployed.
So let’s be clear, there were workers at Disney and SCE who were very highly skilled Computer scientists, knowing several computer languages (in one case 24 different computer languages), decades of experience in the computer industry. And that is how the Offshore Outsourcing companies operate, they exist for the sole purpose of using the H-1b visas to facilitate massive discrimination against American citizens and the removal of millions of U.S. jobs to India.