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In reply to the discussion: KRUGMAN: The Fake Skills Shortage [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)42. You want someone to move across the country
To a region where they won't be able to find another job if their job with you doesn't work out for whatever reason. The fact that you want them to train others in their skill set suggests that your company would dump them as soon as you have enough locals trained up to speed.
Then they would be liable to move back to the NE on their own dime.
People aren't as gullible as they used to be about this stuff, the level of trust in corporate America is dropping like a stone, as well it should.
It also seems extremely unlikely given your description that an H1b from another country would have the skill set you are seeking, it would appear to be remarkably US-centric.
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we need awareness. People don't understand the problem--especially engineers who haven't been hit.
antigop
Apr 2013
#26
Years ago when I started working we were trained on the job. How come they don't do that now?
Harriety
Apr 2013
#9
The current generation of middle managers was trained to focus exclusively on the numbers
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2013
#14
Especially galling is that "Fiduciary Duty to the shareholders" is a MYTH.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2013
#46
"taught to...regard the prosperity of the shareholders as their ONLY priority."
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#57
When you glut the market, you drive down wages. When you over focus on degrees
TheKentuckian
Apr 2013
#59
Yes theres a shortage of Cisco network engineers willing to work in the $15-$18/hr range
undeterred
Apr 2013
#11
I keep getting calls from recruiters asking for senior mechanical engineers, with MSME, to
Flatulo
Apr 2013
#13
On a slightly related note, my son is getting his masters in paralegal studies this spring. He's
Flatulo
Apr 2013
#15
The Democrats like this because they can push for more education funding...
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#18
What gets me is how Republicans put people in agencies to destroy them from within,..
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#62
Different regions have different industries and attract different people.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Apr 2013
#41
Yes and the one before that asked you what you were offering the hipster dickheads to move across
whttevrr
Apr 2013
#60
You are clearly having a conversation with someone else. Don't let me interrupt.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Apr 2013
#63