A bit off the international scene, unless Florida is another country.
Disney World in Orlando, Florida has laid off some 250 tech workers. Behind-the-scenes programmers and computer operators (Americans) were laid off and replaced by Indian techies with H-1B visas. The visas have been given to out-sourcing companies, including HCLA America hired by Disney to provide the new workers.
H-1B visas are intended for high-level professionals who, it is said, will take on jobs for which no Americans are available. In this case, the Americans were not only available, they were actually working. A humiliating requirement of the severance package was that some of the laid-off workers had to train their Indian replacements. Naturally there was a confidentiality clause. Congressional hearings on increasing the number of H-1B visas seems to have prompted the revelation.
Looks like Scrooge McDuck heads human resources at Disney.
Margaret Steinfels
"CUMMING PRINCIPLE: The world of bytes and bits difficult to control and regulate by anyone."
I humbly disagree. The people who buy and sell useless wasteful services and products are mostly sales people and business leaders. A deadly combination of ignorance and greed.
The world of bits and bytes is very much a science or at least it has become now since those earlier days in 70s and 80s. Yes there is a general impulse among many including influential decision makers to run the industry on "fly by the seat of pants basis" but that doesn't mean there is no better alternative.
If a sales guy was able to sell me a tractor to mow my lawn, i would never blame caterpillar.
Posted by: Farooq | 08 June 2015 at 01:52 PM
Farooq,
I completely agree with your perspective. But sales people and business leaders make up way too many of today's "leaders." I doubt this is really a new phenomenon either: the face of late 18th century science to the contemporary masses was Mesmer, not Lavoisier.
Posted by: kao_hsien_chih | 08 June 2015 at 03:39 PM