We cant compete with this situation
Stumbled upon this video on YouTube. The law firm Cohen & Grigsby out of Pittsburgh provided some videos on YouTube to advertise their seminars. One dealt with how to meet the basic requirements in posting a job for a qualified U.S. worker in order to deny any U.S. worker and then hire an foreign worker on an H1-B visa. They've since pulled their videos, but the Programmer's Guild got this one and it's getting a lot of attention. It's the number one story on Informationweek.com. Over 12,000+ views so far. Please watch this and bring everyone's attention to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU Thanks, Alain So tell me why isn't this being sent to each and every Senator and Congressman on the hill?
So that's why job ads seem to have impossible job requirements.
This needs to be broadcast as widely as possible. I always suspected this was how corporations managed not to find qualified Americans when so many highly skilled people are unemployed. If more people knew what was really going on, the revolution wouldn't be far away. It also grinds my gears as an HR person to watch those HR women sitting there parroting the party line. Those are your own jobs you are sending floating down the river you stupid witches. Just makes me want to scream. This is why HR has a bad name. What happened to the part about balancing the needs of the business and the employee? Oh, I guess that's now one of the jobs Americans won't do. ARGGGHHHH!!! They aren't the first Stepford employees I've seen with their silly grins and heads bobbing and nodding like the little ornamental dogs some have in the rear window of their cars. You and all of this are beginning to convince me that HR is not the appropriate venue for me and my talents! As much as I hate it, I may just have to resume practicing law--on the side of good and kick some A-S-S!! What that law firm is doing is shameful. I think the video should be sent to the appropriate state bar association(s), judges, legislators, it should not be all that difficult to hang them on some rule or reg., despite what they say.
Doesn't everyone know that the function of IHR is to screw over the employees when management doesn't have the stomach to do it themselves? Inhuman Resources is the devil! Well I thought I was one of them, but nobody gave me the deny, deny, deny, screw the employees at every opportunity playbook. Silly me, I took the job thinking I would be in a position to help employees. I actually thought employers wanted to avoid, and God forbid, end discrimination and workplace misconduct. Damn my dad for instilling integrity and a strong sense of right and wrong in me! What was he thinking???
I was taught that HR's job was to help balance the needs of the company and the employees: a fair and balanced relationship. As this idea has obviously gone by the wayside, I am also trying to get out of HR. However, with practices like those illustrated in the video, I don't know what real chance I have at any job. I have just too many negatives: over 50, walk with a cane, 30 years business experience and American. All of that reads like a list of disqualifications.
I feel the same way. Except for no cane (yet), my physical limitations also prevent me from worker as a grocery checker, wallymart greeter, shelf stocker........ And, yes, I am an American, white but for Native American blood, which doesn't mean squat in this country. My mind functions quite well, I am well-educated, experienced, intelligent, quite good computer skills; however, I guess they believe that she is over 45, a fortiori, incapable of using or learning new computer software.
This really shows where we are with respect to the job market. Here are a couple of ideas for American citizens and greencard holders who would prefer to work in IT throughout the remainder of their careers: * get a visa to work overseas. Renounce US citizenship. When the process has completed, get a visa to return to the USA to continue working in IT as a foreign worker. * pressure the US Congress to create a new visa program specifically for American citizens. This will allow citizens to work alongside the vastly-preferred visa holders who dominate the IT market. The US workers will, as visa holders, be unable to leave their jobs, and will be cowed into renouncing their rights to legal representation against their US employers. The risk of derailing the path to their 2nd US citizenship would be far too great to take that risk. Think of it! As a naturalized US citizen, Congress will hear your voice! You will emerge from the heap of no-goods who continue to clutter up the landscape of this great country! | |
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