I found this little article by accident while waiting for feedback from a user… I, at least, found it entertaining.
This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement
The H1-B program is such a cluster fuck visited on the American worker that cluster fuck is not a strong enough term. I’m in IT and I have been watching this disaster for years.
I was contracting at large financial firm. I begin noticing a large number of young Indians coming in as contract workers. Contracting is a very common method in IT. Companies like because they can staff up and staff down as needed. I used to like because the companies generally compensated well for the insecurity of a contracting positions, and I did not mind moving around to different jobs. To get back to my position at the financial firm. When I saw all the Indians coming in I knew my days were numbered, and they were. They found a pretense to terminate my contract nine months early. It was my second contract at this firm, and they had actually given me more money to come back for a second contract. Additionally, they had given me an 18 month contract when normal they did not go over a year. They seemed to like my work. My consulting firm later told me that they were bringing in the Indians at $25/hour less than I was receiving. I can promise you I was not getting rich. This was at a time long past the glory days of contracting.
This particular consulting firm ended up going out of business as they could not compete with the cheap off-shore labor either. And this was one of the older and bigger consulting companies. Now days, when a consulting company calls you about a contract if you are talking to an American it is a miracle. If the consulting company is not Indian it is even more of a miracle. You have to give the Indians credit. Many of the Indian companies have used the minority preferences given by our laws to gain an advantage. Essentially this has allowed Indian firms to corner this market in preference to American firms.
Who do I blame? I do not blame individual Indians, but I do blame Congress and our President who are in cahoots with our corporations who only care about profit and cheap, cheap labor. It is something I have ranted about for years. Congress briefly played lip service to all the complaints, but I do believe the problem is even worse than it was before.
To read about one of these horror stories, go to This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement at Computerworld.com
Just in case you do not know what a H1-B Visa — click the link for the Wikepedia article on same.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 3,730
…yeah I know you did not ask!
We are all 18 at heart. Witness the overweight, pushing 60 individual whose phone’s ringtone is a rock anthem from the early 70s.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 1,984
…yeah I know you did not ask!
Casual Fridays…When middle age folks (and older) come to the office in clothes that make you want to poke your eyes out.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 4,234
…yeah I know you did not ask!
Life is purposeless. Life just is. Anyone beyond scrambling daily to just meet their existence needs knows this at some level. Most folks do not acknowledge it. Perhaps this is actually the healthier response, to remain somewhat delusional. However it is this unacknowledged comprehension that drives so much of human behavior. The mass psychoses that are the various religions stem from this. The fanaticism of the sports aficionado is a symptom of this. You can add anything that pretends to provide or reveal purpose to life. Being a creative species we have concocted many.
The question becomes what happens when this purposelessness is acknowledged. An argument could be made that this is a possible cause of depression, addiction, and a varied list of maladaptive behaviors.
The more I dwell on it, the only sane response when you are aware enough to acknowledge that life is without purpose is to live in the moment, to just be. Another possible response when you accept this is to provide your own purpose realizing that ultimately your purpose is an ephemeroptera.
Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Supports Stoning Gay People to Death
Any wonder I do not want to live in Oklahoma…
Click hyperlink below to read story on Slate.com
Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Supports Stoning Gay People to Death
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 6,787
…yeah I know you did not ask!
Intelligent Design… If there were truly a loving, compassionate god, would he/she/it design a system of carnivorous might. The strong preying on the weak, biting through their jugular veins, and ripping them apart bite by bite. A system designed such that many of the males of the species will eat the young of their species if given half a chance. And so on and so on and so on …
Hello…
Pass the Black Flag Please
My grandmother, my mother’s mother, was known and addressed by all as Mama Carr. She had a hardscrabble life. She was born in the Ozark Mountains in 1897. She later moved with her family to Indian Territory around Tom Joad country near what is now Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Later she would share crop with my grandfather near Warner, Oklahoma in an area lovingly known as Ignorant Ridge.
Along the way she had 11 children, 9 of whom made it to adulthood. Her only son died in WWII becoming a well publicized war hero with his final actions. All her daughters went on to live respectable lives. Mama Carr was charitable, almost to a fault, but she did not tolerate slackards or drunkards. She was a Pentecostal who for some reason never went to church, but she was a very religious woman. She was kind in any number of ways, but she also had a temper and a bit of a mean streak. Continue reading “Pass the Black Flag Please”
Same Sh**, Different Day
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it. ~~ Patrick Moore
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed. ~~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late. ~~ Ben Folds quotes
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” ~~ H.L. Mencken
“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.” ~~ Biff from Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. ~~ Willy from Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.~~ Thomas Nagel
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.” ~~ Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
“Too much ends in smoke.” ~~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut