[Info-vax] EDS and HP hard to tell the difference

[David J Dachtera]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> 
> I just had a chat with a pimp and had to share this with you.  HP/EDS
> is now shopping for an OpenVMS Progress consultant with many years of
> experience and looking to pay $30/hr. here in IL.  They already had a
> consultant at the site, but they have a strong desire to bring yet
> another illegal alien (and potential terrorist) into the country, so
> they told the consultant they had to work for this new illegal alien
> rate.  The consultant is in the process of bailing, which doesn't
> bother HP/EDS at all.  They are going pull their normal stunt of
> advertising this at well below market rate for N months, then tell the
> government there are no qualified U.S. citizens to work the contract
> and fly yet another person here on a tourist visa to do billable work
> an be paid through an off-shore entity...thus skirting all U.S.
> payroll and employment taxes.
> 
> EDS always was blatant with their criminal activity, especially when
> engaging in the trafficking of human cargo, but they somehow managed
> to avoid Congressional Inquiry.  Now they are continuing with business
> as usual under the HP name, even though HP has already had to appear
> before congress.
> 
> The one law I really want to see passed (besides making trafficking in
> human cargo have a mandatory minimum of double life) is to mandate
> that both law enforcement officials and the press have to release the
> names of the employers of all terrorists nabbed in this country.  We
> just had a big snatch of people over a plot involving targets in NY
> and one person working at an airport in Colorado, but we have not been
> told "who" they actually worked for and "who" sponsored the visa (if
> not home grown from citizens).  We were never told who employed the
> 9/11 hijackers, nor who employed them in this country (or if they were
> employed).
> 
> Make broadcasting of the employment information mandatory and we just
> might put  damper on a lot of this terrorist activity.
> 
> When is INS going to start having raids on corporate headquarters to
> nab all of the people there doing billable work but here on a tourist
> visa?

This just came up - sort of - in the networking group at the
outplacement firm my former employer hooked me up with. One of the
people in the group went though an entire interview process and everyone
in the company was very, very pleased with him - until the offer came
and it was discovered that the recruiter told the employer that he would
work for a 40% cut from his previous pay rate. Needless to say, the
offer fell apart.

In the post-discussion we decided that "short sales" isn't just the real
estate market, it's the job market as well.

Many of those being laid off are the higher-paid people, usually the
most experienced and most valuable - but also the most expensive -
assets in the company, leaving the company with the cheaper, less senior
people.

At my former site, the depth of experience has gone from 30+ years to
less than 15 among the surviving staff. Personnel costs are
proportionally lower; however, exposure due to lack of both depth and
breadth of experience is similarly higher.

Most of those remaining would have to look on Wikipedia to discover the
meaning of "asynchronous serial communications", for example.

Only the AIXers have even heard of anything coming close to "break-in
detection and evasion".

Don't you just LOVE corporate America?

D.J.D.