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djean111

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6. Well, we IT folks who saw our high-paying jobs with good benefits go overseas and to h-1b visa

Reply to elehhhhna (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 09:43 PM

Dec 2014

holders (and their spouses?), and see the number of H-1b visas increased, or be proposed to increase, every year (by Hillary last time) - we are told to suck it up and get retrained or whatever. Not happy anyone is losing their job, but interesting how THESE jobs count.

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Crashing Oil Prices Will Be Terrible ONLY For A Tiny Part Of The US Economy [View all] Fred Sanders Dec 2014 OP

only if you call banks, private equity and @ 9% of the economy "tiny" elehhhhna Dec 2014 #1

Who suffers then? Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #2

tx, ok, ak, co, ca, nm, ut, wy,nd,sd,la, pa, off the top of my head. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #4

When you hire on with Wellstone ruled Dec 2014 #3

and when every job gained by the OA goes away in the next 12 months, elehhhhna Dec 2014 #5

Well, we IT folks who saw our high-paying jobs with good benefits go overseas and to h-1b visa djean111 Dec 2014 #6

i am a staffing rockstar headhunter. i watched IT go to hell back then. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #7

Oh, I have been called a racist because the IT jobs are gone. Not cool either. djean111 Dec 2014 #8

we probably agree then elehhhhna Dec 2014 #9

Well, you could be a programmer for an oil company TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #10

I was a programmer/system manager/QA/overseas support and liaison for one of djean111 Dec 2014 #11