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> I've had a big corporate job where they had us train our h1b and then laid us off This is indeed ridiculous. But how often does that happen? More specificall
by outworlder 10y ago
> I've had a big corporate job where they had us train our h1b and then laid us off
This is indeed ridiculous. But how often does that happen? More specifically, how many companies go to the trouble of hiring H1B workers in lieu of local workers and then make the current workers train the replacements?
if the worker being trained was actually a contractor for one of those big indian IT companies, then it makes more sense.
- HaloZero 10y agoI mean not really hard data but UCSF did it at least. http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-tech-workers-train-their-foreign-replacements/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-...
- reaperducer 10y agoHappened to me last year, too. And it's not just big companies. In my case it was a firm with only about 30 employees. But outsourcing (in my case to India) has become so easy that companies of almost any size can do it.
- davidw 10y agoH1B is someone coming here, not outsourcing. Fewer H1B's probably means more outsourcing, for companies who are just looking at cutting costs and not looking at quality a lot. Not that there aren't great people to outsource work to, but we all know the kind of company we're talking about that isn't seeking that.
- stevenwoo 10y agoUsually companies have a severance package with a non disclosure so it's going to have be bad enough for people to sue for it to make the news like Disney and the 250 IT workers in Florida. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/disney-h1b-visas-immigration-layoffs/396149/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/disney-...
- stevenwoo 10y agonews article today with lots more examples - the rise in companies that specialize in just this tactic should give a clue to it's pervasiveness. http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15370248/trump-h-1b-visa-reform-tech-worker-outsourcing-cap http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15370248/trump-h-1b-visa-r...