As this article reports, the U.S. doesn't lack for skilled professionals to fill tech positions in the IT industry--they just don't want to pay them. Guys like Bill Gates and the NY Times own Tom Friedman and David Brooks decry the lack of software professionals turned out by the U.S. university system and urge the increased granting of temporary work visas to poorly paid foreign IT workers, especially India.
While this article focuses on how company bean counters at Disney are laying off high performing American professionals because they make too much money, this process is also being followed by other highly profitable companies, including AT&T, Bell South, California Electric and Gas, and IBM (who did it to my wife 7 years ago).
The irony is that in many cases, the so-called talent brought in from Asia have performed so poorly that they had to be replaced by American workers, resulting in a net loss of revenue and customer good will. But we live in a cutthroat world where price is everything, so I don't expect the kind of short-term thinking indulged by corporate monsters like Disney to change anytime soon.
So, in the meantime: BOYCOTT DISNEY!
Postscript--the Times article has created quite a stir.
While this article focuses on how company bean counters at Disney are laying off high performing American professionals because they make too much money, this process is also being followed by other highly profitable companies, including AT&T, Bell South, California Electric and Gas, and IBM (who did it to my wife 7 years ago).
The irony is that in many cases, the so-called talent brought in from Asia have performed so poorly that they had to be replaced by American workers, resulting in a net loss of revenue and customer good will. But we live in a cutthroat world where price is everything, so I don't expect the kind of short-term thinking indulged by corporate monsters like Disney to change anytime soon.
So, in the meantime: BOYCOTT DISNEY!
Postscript--the Times article has created quite a stir.
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