
By Andrew Donoghue
Published: Tuesday 12 July 2005
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Anonymous
Location
Denver
Occupation
Former IT
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Don't fall for this - company bosses shouting shortages and howling for the best and brightest of other nations. In the US we saw hundreds of thousands of our best and brightest fired, and in many cases forced to train their foreign replacements as a condition of recieving severance money. It was dreadful to meet the foreign workers who came in - usually in positions vacated by fired Americans. Almost always their jobs and their skillsets were ordinary - not the best of breed they claim. Result: hundreds of thousands of lifetimes of US IT talent flushed down the can, replaced by people who were no better and often worse. There was no shortage of IT talent in your country or mine, and there isn't one now. Aftermath in the US: rapidly dropping enrollments in Computer Science and Engineering - our youth have seen that poverty and joblessness result from pursuing these fields, if you happen to be a local citizen. They learned this from watching what happened to their parents. Don't listen to this guy!!!!
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