Having worked in an industry that supported Disney as a client once in my career, I find that whole firm contemptible, and this behavior doesn't surprise me at all.
My Position On The Disney Layoffs
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#12"I'm sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1b Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future." It's surprising to me that Disney was able to replace its local workforce by foreigners via H-1b visas, since I always thought that companies making use of this type of visa were required to prove that they would not be able to find an employee with the required qualifications in th…
They hired them through a third-party, thus Disney had to justify nothing. Look at the list of H1B awards and you'll see the big body shops.
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#13I usually don't comment on immigration policies because I'm a US citizen and have never been an immigrant worker, however I dont believe this affects the long term success or failure of the H1B visa program and nor should it. We do exist in a global economy and you must therefore compete globally. If a company feels that they can get equal talent to mine in another country for cheaper costs then so be it; I didn't do…
"They had good performance reviews and none expected to be told they were being let go 90 days later."
I think they all showed their worth, otherwise they'd have not had good reviews...
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#14Can someone provide some context to this post? What happened at Disney?
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#15What exactly happened here?
Reading between the lines it sounds like Disney are executing an outsourced IT transformation involving offshore IT application delivery (maybe maintenance, IT ops etc.)? Flying in staff from offshore teams to shadow/train with the team being reorganised is standard practice from what I've seen.
It isn't pretty but it's not like Disney are breaking new ground here...
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#16"I'm sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1b Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future." It's surprising to me that Disney was able to replace its local workforce by foreigners via H-1b visas, since I always thought that companies making use of this type of visa were required to prove that they would not be able to find an employee with the required qualifications in th…
I'd also be curious if there was some possible form of recompense possible, like a class action suit.
(To be clear, I'm just tossing legal terms around that I have a vague understanding of, and I know that's what I'm doing. I'm asking for those who might know more for the real info. Emphasis "know".)
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#17I've said this before and I will say it again, programming is an entry level job. A programming (Application development) career is definitely not something you want to grow old in (unless you're a rockstar which most of us aren't). Get an MBA while you can or start your own at a younger age.
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#18I usually don't comment on immigration policies because I'm a US citizen and have never been an immigrant worker, however I dont believe this affects the long term success or failure of the H1B visa program and nor should it. We do exist in a global economy and you must therefore compete globally. If a company feels that they can get equal talent to mine in another country for cheaper costs then so be it; I didn't do…
> We do exist in a global economy and you must therefore compete globally.
I completely agree, but that's not what the H1-B visa program does. It allows companies to lock in immigrant workers at a lower rate and little to no job mobility. From a companies standpoint it is obviously what they want - pay less, and job lock in!
The fix for the H1-B is true immigration reform. We need to make it easy for people to come to the US and enter the job market just like anyone else.
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#19"I'm sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1B Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future." Anyone who still supports FWD.us and believes that the US doesn't produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses is straight up, while they are reading this, actually holding a crack pipe to their mouth.
Protectionism doesn't work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage [2] http://www.economics.uci.edu/files/docs/micro/s07/Peri.pdf [3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904434771045775512...
How do you determine what's "healthy"? Millions of Americans are caught in an endless cycle of poverty and we're fighting a $15 minimum wage. We've shipped millions of manufacturing jobs to China so it's harder to get a good job without a college education. Now we want to reduce the salaries of well-paid jobs by onshoring them.
I'd say we should take a closer look at what we're actually doing.
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#20 "being forced to train their own replacements"? it is such spooky as H1-B workers are not able to be found in U.S.
Put aside legality, it is almost cruel decision.