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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4ACE7754.54628E62 at spam.comcast.net>,
	David J Dachtera <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> writes:
> 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?

I don't know, I fall in the 30+ catagory and I only wish I was making
$40/hr.    Heck. I'm making more as a mobilized Resrvist than I do in
my day job.

bill

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