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zzzreyes
04-12-2000, 10:34 AM
what do you guys think of this...

Where do you get this stuff?? There is no IT labor shortage! It is a ploy by companies to get Congress to open the H1-B visa floodgates. Companies don't want to pay American IT talent the high salaries they demand when they can pay a foreignor half. Here is a quote from a recruiter on another board:

'That's exactly right Yankee, why should I pay you more when there's a pool of H1B talent I can tap that works for about 40% of what you make and is indentured to me for years untill their green card arrives?

Mind you, I simply don't care how hard you work or how marketable your skills are. You're just too expensive regardless, and you'll jump ship anyway for another outfit for $10K more per year. I'll put up with culture and language barriers and someone with less skills than you present, because my friend, CASH IS KING, and the less of it I dole out to the minions, the better I look to my management.

Oh, and never mind that my projects are still late, the software is buggy and crashes, or other sundry problems. Saving my boss a ton of bucks on labor costs will get me my next promotion in any event.'

Check out what real IT job hunters are saying at http://www.national.computerjobs.com/main_html/forums/index.cfm?CFApp=3

There is no IT labor shortage, just a shortage of CHEAP labor!!!

hd581
04-12-2000, 10:52 AM
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CONTRiC
04-12-2000, 11:16 AM
hd851 has probably given the best reply i have *ever* seen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

*grin*

Titan
04-12-2000, 11:32 AM
Without a doubt, that is the best response I have yet to see. Good Job.

noresull
04-12-2000, 11:46 AM
Yup, gotta agree, best reply yet!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Richard_Cranium72
04-12-2000, 07:04 PM
As Richard and ZZ soar above, they notice several ostriches with their heads in the sand...

MadMatt
04-12-2000, 10:27 PM
In San Francisco we're having a hard time filling LEVEL 1 HELP DESK positions at $30/hr!!! Two years ago we would have been paying $15 and been turning people away. MCSE's with a LITTLE experience can get $80k no problem.

Of course, a 2 bedroom apartment is $1800.mo....

zzzreyes
04-12-2000, 10:28 PM
I got to get that flag!

CMonster
04-13-2000, 02:17 AM
And we do tech support for free right here!

...what a world! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

welsh wizard
04-13-2000, 02:32 AM
CMonster does this mean I am cheap scab foreign labour http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
this cheap labour thing goes on all over the world, and as the world becomes smaller it will happen more and more, what is sickening is the high over 50's out of work, at least down under in NZ it's illegal to use age a tool to refuse to employ, in fact your employer has no rights to even know how old you are, are now where that bottle of Raygun Hair dye.
WW

UncaDanno
04-14-2000, 07:27 AM
Like the flag, but I gotta disagree.

I have been watching the IT labor market for a few years now. I have seen a sharp increase of:
Job postings that require experience in a given technology that is longer than the technology has existed.
Job postings that require guru-level experience in multiple technologies and offer entry-level (that is, fresh out of high school) salaries.
When responding to job postings, between 90 and 94% have "already been filled." Even when the job is repeatedly posted for months on end after it has "already been filled."

Question is, if there is such a glut of jobs open (where you can make enough to pay your own way), and such a dearth of qualified workers, why does it take several months to get the first response where a job has NOT "already been filled?"